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28th Annual
Great Labor Day Cruise

Sept 4-5-6, 2010
Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, CA
Story & Photographs by Roger Rohrdanz

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Roger Rohrdanz

This event has been a staple in the So Cal car scene for 28 years. Participants and spectators come from all different cities and surrounding states. The weather is typically warm, sometimes real hot. This year we got some variety with warm weather on Friday & Saturday with chilly evenings and Sunday & Monday never got warm, but the sun was out.

 Several improvements have been made to the event including:
Some newer than pre-78 cars were encouraged to enter in an effort to increase car count and bring in the younger crowd

A great Kick-Off party Fri night at the Baja Blues restaurant with The Eliminators Surf Band for entertainment

Saturday 2 live bands played all day, 3 Car Garage and Lil Mo & The Dynaflos

Sunday more live bands, Christian Rodders Band (Great!), Rip Carson, Donovan “Elvis” Chavez

Improved AutoCross course, very entertaining to watch

Kiddie Korner was fun for the children, with face painting and car coloring contests

The always popular Model Car Contest in the new “Hangar” building

As always, the best part of the event was the one and a half mile cruise route! The awards presentation was held Sunday afternoon (7:30) with a “drive-thru” ceremony to show off over 40 special winners.

Thanks for the Show!!


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The event banner.

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The Friday evening “Kick off party at Baja Blues was a big hit. The Eliminators Surf Band provided the entertainment.

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Stefan Amann of Eightball Rods & Choppers built this very unique wooden deuce. Great attention to detail.

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It wouldn’t be an official cruise at the Fairgrounds without “The Living Room” owned by the Geary Boys.

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Gary Bryan manned the K-EARTH booth.

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The beautifully designed Rossi SixtySix was on-hand.

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Leading the pack. This sharp ’50 Chevy Delux Coupe belongs to Tony Martinez from Orange, CA.

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Check out the attitude on this big block powered Deuce Roadster owned by Matt & Karen Neale of Orange, CA.

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Hector Avila brought this very popular ’38 Chevy Sedan from Long Beach, CA.

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This nice little ’29 Ford Roadster pickup is being worked on by Skip Pipes of Huntington Beach, CA.

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Bill Modic from Costa Mesa, CA. brought his very cool ’55 Lincoln.

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This historic 1960 Grand National winner has won another award at this Labor Day Cruise. The owners are Ray & Janet Allison of Huntington Beach, CA.

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A chopped top, 572 Chevy powered, ‘49 Chevy Panel truck. Its handler is John Smith of Huntington Beach, CA.

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Robert “Bobby” Gomez of Santa Ana, CA. can now get most of his racing friends into his ’55 Chevy Suburban

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The license says “No Fare”. Richard Berg of Newport, CA. stuffed a 10-71 blown 426 Hemi under the hood of his ’63 Marathon Cab!

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In front of the new “Hangar” building was a good spot for this pink ’57 T-Bird.

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This beautifully restored GM truck, restored by the Dunkel Bros, looks great in front of the new “Hangar” building.

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You don’t see many stretched Woodies and this ’40 Chevy Woodie is also chopped 2”! The owner is Mike McClaghlin of San Clemente, CA.

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Interesting paint scheme on this unusual ’51 Plymouth coupe from Chino, CA. The owner is Wayne Davis.

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 Don Straley brought his “Beak Nosed” ’38 Ford coupe from Downey, CA.

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Jeff Bates’ very nice ’29 Ford track nosed roadster from Laguna Niguel, CA. deserved its award.

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Another award winner, is this 383 Chevy powered ’41 Willys sedan, owned by Ken Hix of Torrance, CA.

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Tom Porter built this whole rig himself, from the “55 Chevy 1 ton pickup to the “Log Cabin” 5th wheel trailer. It even has a potbelly stove inside. Now he gets to take it on the AutoCross course!

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The “Blue Tease” is a winner. The hand crafted Deuce is owned by Jim Warren of Corona del Mar, CA.

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A cool winner! This slick ’55 Lincoln Capri is owned by Gary Paolucci of Long Beach, CA.

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Some interesting scenes along the cruise route at night.

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Scenes from around the event.

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The improved AutoCross course was very entertaining to watch

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