Unique Tin Car Show Cruise, Longview, WA, 22 Aug 2009

OK, so this post is a little bit outside of my racing ones. Every year Longview has a HUGE car show and they close off the main streets downtown to let the show cars cruise. So I brought my camera out and started snapping pictures of all of the cool local cars to share. We have some very cool and unique stuff around here!

'71 or '72 Roadrunner

C4 Corvette Targa in Dark Green!

'69 Dodge Charger

Original MINI Cooper

'56 Chevy in Cream over Bronze

3rd Gen Camaro with a seriously built motor under the cowl hood

Comet? It was customized pretty heavily.

This Yenko Nova clone had it going on. Check out the side dumps.

CRAZY Pro-Street Chevelle!

And a classic British Roadster. We have an eclectic mix of cars!

'69 Camaro

'09 Camaro (check out the Ambassador in the background!)

Falcon Gasser!

Sweet flames on a '50 Ford

Yes, this is a Porsche 911. Yes, it says "Longview Police" on it, no, it's not a drug dealer car. It's our retired Captain's personal 911 and the door graphics are magnetic. They use it for all the special events.

'73 Mach 1

Sweet Lime Green and White Bug

'57 Nomad!

Willys Army Jeep

Yes, that's a HALF TRACK next to the '66 GTO!!

I love the Silver and Cranberry color scheme on this '55 Chevy

This '62 'Vette was rocking as well!

Another GTO. I have a soft spot for orphan cars (AMC, Rambler, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, and now Pontiac).

I know it's a Nissan Pulsar, but I have never seen the wagon-back before!

Shelby GT

'68 Corvette, my personal favorite

New Camaro SS

Sweet Corvair!

Shelby GT500 Convertible

You know they we're thinking about racing...

Yes, that's a '59 Caddy with a Bamboo roof, and yes, that is a Jaws shark in the back.

Triumph? (I'm really bad at British sports cars...)

Cobra replica

Really cool Duster with a 440 swap.

This '68 Camaro was MEAN!

'72 Camaro

C6 'Vette Targa in Black baby!

Ultra-rare 3rd Gen Camaro Convertible!

And an insane blown '55 Chevy Pro Street!

I hope you liked my car show and cruise pictures! The SCCA Autocross post is coming tomorrow.

Upcoming events

Sorry about the lack of updates in-between events, my life is a little hectic at the moment! Anyways, here's what I have coming up in the pipeline:

• Saturday August 22nd; Unique Tin Car Show and Cruise; Longview, WA
• Sunday August 23rd; Oregon SCCA AutoX #7; Packwood, WA
• Sunday September 13th; ORPCA AutoX #6; Portland, OR
• Saturday/Sunday September 19th/20th; Oregon SCCA AutoX #8 & 9; Packwood, WA
• Saturday September 19; PDXCGP Drag Race #5; Portland, OR
• Late September/Early October; PDXCGP Drag Race Finals; Portland, OR
• Sunday October 11th; ORPCA AutoX #7; Portland, OR

Yes, I know I'm double-booked on the 19th, I'm the points leader in Oregon SCCA STS class AND the defending PDXCGP Season Champion, currently second in points, 1 point behind the leader. I will have to make both races, so I plan on being VERY tired that weekend! Lots of Red Bull in NOS in my future...

There will probably be other events between now and then that I will also post about and attend, but these are the major "for sures". Also, I just drug home a potential RallyCross car, so I will try to attend a few of those over the winter.

Is there anything else you would like to see? Car features? Project build-ups? I know posting will be slow over the winter so I want to keep writing stuff!

Shootout at the Mill - Day 2

Sunday saw Day #2 of the Shootout at the Mill. ORPCA was running this one. The course was Saturday's backwards with a loop added in the far corner. That course was seriously the most fun course I've ever driven in 2 years of autocrossing! A huge thanks to Britain Smith, Gary Chapman, Kathy Smalley, Bill Thorp, Chuck Jarvie, and everybody else with ORPCA for always being so friendly and supportive to everybody, not just Porsche owners. We really appreciate everything you do and the hospitality you give.

We were greeted with more fog and drizzle.

Jared getting ready to go out with Tom riding shotgun.

Blinky the RX-7 gets ready to start 16 back-to-back-to-back runs without even turning off!

Josh had some rubbing issues with those huge 315's on Saturday. Some spacers from my P71 solved his problem. The Porsche crest was to confuse people into thinking it was a 944.

John Gonzalez took a nasty hit over a bump in his SRT4 testing out Sunday's course and had to pull double-duty in Derrick's Yellow SRT4.

The '03 still did very well. I've always liked these.

The turbo setup in this Civic was just pure art.

Jared's FD finally found it's sea legs and was FTD in the 1st run group. It took the Mod cars of the final group in the sun to beat out Tom's time in the morning drizzle!

Josh made a good showing with 2nd in NP and 6th overall.

I ended up 56th of 79, which I'm pretty happy with!

Krista improved over Saturday by a ton!

Not that Joshua did bad or anything. ;)

Except for spinning it once John did pretty good in the 7 as well. Notice the 8 in the background?

Alex tore it up in the 240 as well.

Richard did more than keep the tires warm for Josh, he did some great times as well.

Audra getting ready for a run. She did awesome on Sunday too!

You know why I love being a starter for ORPCA? Because I can take pictures and work!

Remember that gold 944 I wondered about from the way back post? THIS is what happened! Holy cow Kathy and Bill!

Chuck Jarvie smiling for the camera during a timer issue break. Chuck was my instructor when I started racing 2 years ago.

Glen's wicked-fast 924. He got a Top-20 overall with it!

A very, very nice Cayman with Fikse wheels.

A 911 whale tail with more modern Carrera wheels.

Hard to believe this is what the 911 started with. What a clean car!

The Shit Box prepares to make a run. We finally got some sunshine too!

Mike Skinner's "Kermie" has got to be my favorite 911.

The 914 Club Shootout was awesome to watch!

They were really pushing hard for those bragging rights!

I finally caught it in a picture!!

This Targa was appreciated all weekend, so clean!

A 996 going at it.

More 914's.

And more!

With so many 914's and EIGHT runs each I was able to get great shots of everybody!

Finally I got some good shots of the Shit Box too!

A lot of us forgot sunscreen when the sun came out. Luckily 914's are Targa's!

I think JP is at the wheel.

Another 911 finishes up.

Bob's Boxter starting a run.

Leeds just nipped Britain on Sunday for FTD. The White 914 was a QUICK car!

Gary and Pamela's car always looks stunning!

Another shot through the finish.

Mike Skinner starting off.

The sun does make for better pictures.

I still love this color.

Gotta love racing with the top down.

I caught BRITAIN in the Shit Box!!!

Through the finish.

That car is so much fun to ride in.

Again, thank you so much to ORPCA and NWPCA for a GREAT event! We love running with you guys and girls and the camrederie is really something special. I hope to afford a Porsche one day just so I can join ORPCA. John gives you all two thumbs up!