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Costa Mesa, CA
8-30,31- 08

Story and photographs by Roger Rohrdanz

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Roger Rohrdanz

 The 26th annual Great Labor Day Cruise at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, CA. This year the economy affected the turnout. The weather was very nice with perfect evenings. Almost 800 Hot Rods gathered and car friends that may not have seen each other for a year, reunite for 3 days of cruising around the 2 mile cruise route, visiting with old friends, making new friends, checking out some of the 90+ vendors offerings, and generally relaxing. The issues of golf carts on the cruise route was partially addressed by restricting them between 10:00am and

2:00pm. This is the only major event that allows golf carts to cruise.  Saturday night a great rock n roll show keeps cruisers jumping. The very nice cars that are on hand provide for some quality award winners on Monday. Thanks for the Show!

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Scenes around the event

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No names, but cool anyway!

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This is like 3 women coming to the big dance in the same dress, and then sitting together!! They are all ’46 Ford Woody’s. From left to right are, Mark Miller from Corona, CA., Chris St. Martin from Long Beach, CA., and Jeff & Judi Bates from Laguna Niguel, CA.

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You can’t have a cruise at the Fairgrounds without the “Living Room”.

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Ken Scott brought his unusual ’36 Plymouth Coupe with 302 Ford power from Hesperia, CA.

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David Kipp drove his perfect Ford V8-60 powered Bantam in from Newport, CA.

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We’ve all seen V8 powered Nash Metropolitans before,but Thomas & Lori Bola of Corona, CA. decided their very sharp ’61 Nash needed a BIG small block so they installed a 436 cu in Merlin small block!

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 Mike McGill from Whittier, CA. was cruising all the time in his “nasty” injected Big Block Chevy ’31 Ford Roadster

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Here is the show stopper. A masterfully massaged, flamed, blown, ’40 Ford Pickup owned by Randy Palmer of Huntington Beach, CA

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This cool ’69 Chevy Camaro belongs to John Waltman

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Mooneyes was there with their F/Blown Fuel Modified Roadster. (F/BFMR) Powered by a very small block Chevy 183 cu in., they just set a new record for the class at Bonneville, 194.487mph! Congratulations!

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A very stylish ‘54 Studebaker belonging to Jason Belcher

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A ’29 Ford Fire Truck owned by Jim Meiers.

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Check out this “Nailhead” Buick powered ’51 Chevy Delux Convertible owned by Bobby Eidem from Fullerton, CA

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The “suede” colors work well on this ’40 Chevy Coupe owned by Rick Torres of Lakewood, CA.

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Matt Tachjdian from Orange, CA drove his very clean ‘40 Ford Woody.

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From Lake Havasu City, AZ. Bob Overbay brought his tilt front, ’41 Willys.

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John Poeske brought his perfectly crafted ’53 Chevy 210 from Torrance, CA.

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Long, low and convertible. Jerry Stover brought his ’60 Ford Sunliner from Tipton, CA.

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A real ’37 Ford Sedan Delivery never looked this good! The owner is Tommy Neimeyer from Huntington Beach, CA.

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The Wheel Smith booth is show’n off two great Roadsters. On the left is the ’28 Ford of Bob Sage of Huntington Beach, CA. On the right is the ’29 Ford of John Swanson also from Huntington Beach, CA

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Highly accessorized, this ’53 Chevy Pickup belongs to Henry Asencio from Stanton, CA.

 

 

 

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