12th Annual Car Show in La Verne!

Written By: GregTheUPSMan

With November being a fairly “quiet” month with the SCC, the City of La Verne held a car show, and toy drive, on Nov 28th. I proposed this show, as a last minute event, which was optional for SCC members to attend. Being on a holiday weekend, I was quite surprised that we had as many Challengers as we did.

Art, Joe, Howard, Chris & family, and myself, represented the SCC at the show. We also had guests, Pete and Beth that wanted to roll with us in their Red ’68 Charger.

All of us met at the Applebee’s, in San Dimas, at 6 am. We had a 30 minute briefing, and began our single file drive to the show’s entrance. We had pre-assigned numerical parking places for the show, so it only made sense to arrive in numerical order. As we arrived at our parking area, we noticed a Black BMW 5-series illegally parked in our assigned section. The BMW ended up splitting between Art’s space and the “68 Charger’s space. The area was clearly marked, “tow away” but the show staff didn’t make any effort to have the car removed. We were able to park around the BMW, but it definitely disturbed the appeal of our lineup.

Once parked, we began to touch up our Challenger’s even with a 50% chance of rain in the forecast. The show area began to fill up with other show participants. There were a lot of old Camaro’s, Chevelle’s, ’55-57 Bel-Air’s, Nomads, classics, and all kinds of hot rods. It didn’t take long for the pedestrian traffic to find their way to our Challenger’s. Massive groups of spectators smothered our Challenger’s all day long. Folks were even hitting up on Chris to fire up his supercharger, which is always cool! In all modesty, we all were liking our chances of at least one of us winning something by the days’ end.

About 2:30, they announced that the trophy presentation was about to begin. Everyone congregated to the presentation area, and that’s when we noticed a lot of guys wearing identical jackets. They were all wearing “Team jackets” with the name, “Cal Rods of the San Gabriel Valley.” I couldn’t even begin to guess on how many of them were there. I knew at that point that any chance of winning something had just dwindled, because the voting was predominately participant’s choice. The actual presentation took place under the “Cal Rod” E-Z up.

We would like to congratulate the Cal Rod members that took home about 90% of the trophies that day. On a side note, Beth won $175 in cash on a winning raffle! Once the award presentation was over, we went to our Challenger’s, said our good-byes, and went our separate ways. It was a good day and we all had fun.