Thanks to Dave (RedDog) for this awesome video depicting 9 months in the life of SoCal Challengers:

Van Nuys – SoCal Challengers participated in their second CPW “Fling” event of the year October 17^th at Woodley Park. Twelve members and eight guests made for a 20-car line of pristine Challengers that took up an entire row at the show. Member Kevin L. won a ribbon Certificate of Merit from CPW for his outstanding Torred R/T. The event featured all years of Mopar vehicles which spread out over eight rows covering the majority of the park grounds. The final tally was somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 cars at the show. There was also a parts swap meet and numerous vendor booths for classic Mopar owners to find that missing part for their restoration or classic memorabilia.

It was convenient that our meeting place was already pegged ahead of time for this show. We had used the closed down jewelry store parking lot for the Spring Fling event earlier in the year. After getting my wife her coffee at a Starbucks down Burbank Blvd. we rolled up in the parking lot to find several members there already. It made me smile that Bill and Macy were there. I had met them at the Spring Fling event earlier in the year. They ended up not thinking we were nuts and subsequently joined SoCal Challengers after that show. Seeing them there in their SCC gear was a good thing. They were now attending as SCC Members. Anyone with a Mopar tattoo on their arm is hardcore and ok in my book. Those are the type of members we love to have, bleeding Mopar blue! We had some new cars show up there as well.  Jim brought his convertible R/T to our meeting place to roll in with us. Jim had an Inferno Red Challenger that definitely turns heads. It’s the only convertible I’ve seen in person to date. The entire group took a gander at the topless muscle machine. I had seen his car the weekend before at the Tri-City Park Car Show in Placentia. I kept checking back that day looking for the owner, but never saw him. Then he just pulls up at our meeting place the very next weekend. Small world and a super nice guy. He ended up getting a ribbon Certificate of Merit as well from CPW. Congrats Jim! Marcelo pulled up in his black 2010 SRT-8 to ride in with us too. Ryan at Stack Performance had hooked him up with our group and it was great to meet him and see our first 2010 model at one of our events. Nick, of BF Xenon, also brought his Charger to the meeting spot to say hello and hang with us for part of the day. If you’re looking for HID lighting for your ride, Nick is the man!!! The Diceman made an appearance too. We hadn’t seen him since the Hotchkis event. I finally got to give him his club shirt which had been in my garage forever. I had the shirt carbon dated, and it was placed back somewhere in the Jurassic Period. It was good to see him in that shirt finally. Joe, from Mass, was at yet another event. I think he’s been at every event since he moved out to California. After the usual pow-wow it was time to roll into the show.

We got into the staging lines just inside Woodley Park at 7a.m. as ordered by CPW. In front of me were two beautiful black ’68 Chargers. Those are my favorite year Chargers and these were both super clean. We rolled in shortly after and found out we had an entire row saved for us. We all were placed, and began the usual prepping and primping for the show. We had almost an hour before the show officially opened. As more cars began pulling in, another eight Challengers pulled in and parked with us. That was an impressive line of cars. It seemed like it stretched for a mile. We receive a lot of attention that day from spectators at our cars and our table where we sold t-shirts and displayed our trophies our members have earned so far this year. We had someone actually ask us how much for our trophies. Huh? Buy our trophies? Freak. I didn’t expect that one.

Kevin ended up getting an award that day for his beautiful R/T. He had a laminated manifest and purchase sticker along with a Challenger model in his engine bay. The display looked really sharp and we are happy that he won. CPW stealthily put the ribbons on various cars at the end of the show. There were ninja ribbon-placers about. I never saw them once. Some of the members picked up memorabilia at the various booths too to add to their collection. This show had quite a variety.

can now say that we’ve “Flung” twice this year and loved it! These shows bring out a vast quantity of high-quality classic Mopars. Too many to mention! My fave was a ’71 Challenger that had a new 6.1 Hemi in it. It was a beautiful blue. Man, that car was my favorite by a mile. I’d like to thank CPW for bringing such great Mopars together for us to see and for embracing the new models of Dodge/Chrysler. I’d also like to thank all the member participation at this event. We had a great turnout! And thank you Rick for double-checking the lot ahead of time. Spring Fling is April 1^st & 2^nd 2010!