Category: Car Shows

HOTROD-A-RAMMA 2026

Prescott, Az

May 14 – 16, 2026

Writeup by: Larry Besore

Pictures by: Larry Besore

The HOTROD-A-RAMA show in Prescott was a big success!
Larry Way, Ron Olmstead and I really enjoyed the show. It’s different from most other shows as it featured real traditional hot rods and customs, no billet queens, no high-end shop builds, just great Hot Rods. Probably the best Hot Rod show ever. The weekend started out with a cruise from Prescott to Jerome. An unannounced stop in Camp Verde to be amazed by the multi garages and outbuildings full of cars and memorabilia. Truly awesome!
The show on Fri and Saturday was jaw dropping. This show is a must for next year!

LA Roadster Show 2026

Pomona, Ca

June 19 – 20, 2026

Writeup by: Larry Besore

Pictures by: Larry Besore

Larry Way and I left Thursday morning at 5 AM in my 1930 RPU.
The drive to Pomona was uneventful, after a quick stop at the So -Cal open house we headed to the hotel.
Friday’s show was bigger than in past years, the set up was a bit strange but it worked. The Swap meet was scattered around.
Saturday turnout was bigger than I can remember in the last 3 years anyway.
We headed home at 5 AM Sunday morning toward the Arizona heat. Other than a few shake down issues the RPU did ok.

Midnight at the Oasis 2026

March 6-8, 2026

Yuma, AZ.

Pictures by; Carol Boen and Al Turley

Once again, a group of us took in the Midnight at the Oasis Car Show sponsored by the Caballeros de Yuma. It is such a great show! With your entry get a reserved parking space on the field as well as food every day (the free beer on Saturday is a nice touch) and concerts in the stadium at night. There were a couple of issues with a couple of cars, one was mine! The Pertronix module in my distributor decided to quit, not being able to find a replacement we changed out the distributor and it was running again, Thanks Art!! Everyone made it there and back safely. On the way to Yuma there was a KILLER POTHOLE that most of us missed except a couple that ran right over it! Only one bent rim but no other issues. What a great weekend!

Havasu Hot Rods

February 26 – 28, 2026

Lake Havasu City, AZ

Carol and I attended the Havasu show.  As expected, it was very good.  We arrived about noon on Thursday, Feb. 26th, dropped our bags at the Holiday Inn Express which was conveniently located to the show activities, and drove over to be parked on McCullough Ave – along with 350 other cool cars. It is very impressive to look down a seven or eight block stretch and see nothing except the crowd around all these great cars.  So many people who owned Model A trucks and I loved talking to them.  As I have often said, “If you don’t like to talk, don’t take your car to a car show”.

Friday was the garage tours – fantastic homes and garages with fantastic cars.  Love to see all that money.

Saturday was show and shine in the local park.  We snuck out early as we had seen most of everything on the Avenue on Thursday.

Write up and pictures by Carol and Gary Aden

Trip to Oregon 2025

Grants Pass, Ore.

July 24 – July 30, 2025

Pictures By Danise Cover

Writeup by Debbie Thomas

4300 miles WOW!! Grants Pass Fabulous 50’s Car Show
here we come!  5 Hot Rods and 5 beautiful
Gals & 5 OTHG drivers head out for 8 days of driving cars meeting
people having fun,
did I say driving 4300 miles round trip. 1st stop Joshua Tree N.P. the desert at its finest and no traffic! Victorville had Molly Browns! Sparks NV. took some of our money, met Dave Bennett there, so now we are 11.  Car show in Grants Pass was great, nice swap meet, everyone got at least 1 piece of junk.. I mean treasure! Drove the Redwood highway, spectacular, heading out to Gold Beach to ride Jerry’s jet boat, Greg & Sherry’s recommendation. So much fun. Made a stop at the drive through tree, the cars just fit. Lassen N.P outstanding.  Back the same way we came, WHEW, what a trip oh and did I mention all 5 cars got awards, hooray!! Thank Charlie & Danise for the plan! Attended by Art & Debbie, Larry & Teresa, Paul & Judy, Greg & Sherry, Dave Bennett. 

Havasu Deuces 2025

Lake Havasu, AZ

February 27 – March 1, 2025

Pictures by; Larry Besore

Writeup by: Larry Besore

Once again we headed for Lake Havasu and the Deuce show. This is a great event and while they feature 1932’s there are usually an equal amount of other years.

Never disappointed at this event. No exception this year. The Friday garage tours are amazing, and some even unbelievable.

From exceptional car collections, boats, neon and memorabilia to a full blown machine shop with equipment I could not even understand what they were used for.

I estimate 300 1932’s at the show on Sat. Probably nearly that many other years. I don’t envy the team that had to pick 10 cars from that offering.

Great selection of vendors, food and attire. I managed to get out with only 2 new T-shirts, no easy task. Our cars ran well no problems except Steve’s brake light not working.

We had some challenges with the route and you can read about that adventure in the next newsletter.

Ya shoulda been there

Havasu Deuces 2024

Lake Havasu, AZ

March 7 – 9, 2024

Pictures by: Larry Besore

Writeup by: Larry Besore

Our adventure started on Thursday morning bright and early. We (Larry Way and I) were to meet up with some other hot rods in Wickenburg about 730am, 2 more 32 roadsters, one a topless version, a Factory  Five 33, and a very cool 36 roadster, and a 1956 Nomad.

We had our meet up and 6 cars left Mc Donald’s for Havasu. Just out of Wickenburg it started raining, then the Factory Five 33 had a computer problem. Back on the highway it continued to rain, steady but not too hard. The topless roadster pilot didn’t look to comfortable he was soaking up a lot of rain.

Inside my 32 our arms were getting some water but not too bad! So rain most of the way into Parker for our gas stop. At Parker the Sun was out and mostly blue skies.

We thought we were over the rainy weather.

Then between Parker and Havasu the heavens opened up and it “RAINED”, serious rain, couldn’t see the car in front of us, and frogs were looking for shelter. Yeah we got a little wet, the topless pilot was a soggy mess. So it was brief but memorable, then we arrived at the host hotel for registration. All in all, with stops and breakdown, time out to wring out shirts and stuff we were after 1PM by now.

We decided to not go downtown to park as they had been parking cars since before 10AM. We unpacked and went for lunch instead.

Friday morning we started the garage tours about 830AM, GPS gave good directions, but “there are no straight streets in Lake Havasu”! At least not in the areas we visited for the tours.

Uphill, Downhill right Roundy turn, left Roundy turn…Seemed like at times we were circling back on ourselves. All that was forgotten as we visited great, unbelievable garages and car displays. The attached photos do not do justice to the sites. At times I was so engrossed in looking I forgot to take pictures. Every site was filled with great stuff and friendly people. Havasu Deuces set up a super Friday of tours.

Saturday morning early we got inline for entry to the Rotary Park, 32’s go in first then everything else.  No bad parking spots easy entry, easy exit. Again the Havasu Deuces know how to organize stuff. There were an amazing assortment of Deuces from all over the country. As well as a lot of super non-32’s. good food vendor choices and a lot of spectators.

The trip home on Sunday was non eventful, just great cruising time cool but not cold, light traffic.

So my standard tag line… “Ya shoulda been there”

Midnight at the Oasis 2024

Yuma, AZ

February 29 – March 3, 2024

Pictures by: Art Thomas, Carol Boen, Russ Whitfeldt, Mike Arney and Al Turley

Close to 30 members drove to Yuma to enjoy the weekend put on by the Caballeros de Yuma. The fun started Thursday night with a downtown car show. The main show was held at Caballero Park on Friday and Saturday. There were close to 1000 cars in attendance and everyone had a reserved spot in the various fields. There was plenty of food to be had each day, included with your admission, and concerts in the stadium each night. A great time was had by all!

Logan Trip

Logan, Utah

June 29 – July 1, 2023

Photos by; Danise Cover

Write up by: Debbis Thomas

Logan Utah, here we come.  Meeting place McDonalds in Camp Verde, go figure meeting at a place to eat.  6 Hot Rods head out for a fun filled, long weekend of car filled days and Beach Boy nights.  It’s not long before a breakdown starts to occur. Lee and Jane friends of Greg and Sherry manage to limp their beautiful 34 Ford 3 window into Cameron Trading Post where a fuel pump is replace by Charlie,  with Art, Paul (providing part) and Dave acting as support personal.  Go figure again, we EAT.
Back on the road, we take a back road around Page, 89A,  through some beautiful country, and arrive in Kanabe for the night, it was the perfect place to stay! Up early, of course eat breakfast, head out for Logan, driving some beautiful country roads through Utah, we arrive in Panguitch where they have a sweet Ace hardware & we become a small car show in the parking lot. I, Debbie,  buy shoes, and the guys fix another car, and we are back on the road, but not until a wonderful old guy serenads us gals in the parking lot. He did a mean Dolly P.  Danise picks a great little hole in the wall Mexican food place for lunch, we all eat again!  Quick stop at an antique store in another small Utah town 😉 Arrive in Logan just in time to get our lodging figured out and hit the sack for the first car show day and what we really went for The Beach Boys in concert.  The first day at the show was good parked by a cute stream that runs through the park,  made a quick run through the swap meet, and it’s lunchtime!   Day 2 car show was great, good parking spots on the grass, lots of food trucks and vendors and some really nice cars, We didn’t win any awards but Sherry won a super nice Pressure Washer from the Napa vendor.  The Beach Boys were great, lots of singing and hand clapping going on!!! Last night of the car show, friends of Dave & Ann Bennett, Ethan & Shannon, invited us all to their beautiful home for a pizza party, it was such a special invitation that was enjoyed by all!!!  We all kinda went our own ways home, some left early, and some went to visit grandkids. Charlie and Dave Bennett ran into each other on the way home just in time for Charlie to help Dave fix his car.  The weather was Hot and it was eating up the fuel pumps on this trip.  Everyone managed to get home safe and sound.  It was such fun.  Thanks, Charlie & Danise, Paul & Judy, Dave & Anne, Greg & Sherry and Lee & Jane, for a fun filled weekend of cars and friends, and how could  I forget Food.   Logan fun Run 2023 in the books!  Danise was the photographer on this trip and took some amazing photos!   

LA Roadster Show 2023

Pomona, CA

June 15-18, 2023

Photos by: Larry Besore

Writeup by: Larry Besore

My brother Steve and I headed out  scary ole I-10 early thursday morning.

It was scary because we were in a small 32 Roadster vying for spots among the 18 wheelers. That continued off and on all the way into Pomona.

Head winds then cross winds kept Steve busy keeping the Roadster in one lane.

We found our hotel and got settled in.

We got up early to get in line for entry into the show, 3rd in line, maybe we got up too early!

Friday was a respectable turn out and a multitude of cars, we could never get to them all. Wanted to walk the swap meet but….. holy smoke main lane was about 3/4 mile long with dozens of side lanes each a 1/4 mile or more long. Nope my hips would not stand for that, so we didn’t buy any treasures!

We did buy a bunch of T-shirts… because (all together now); “You can never have too many T-shirts”

Saturday morning we up early again, 2nd in line … are we in a different tine zone?

Yesterdays car count was doubled or maybe tripled! I bet there wasn’t a roadster left in California not at the show.

One stunning example after the other!

We discovered they had a tram running to and from the swap  meet so we rode down and walked back. We were just doing main aisle when Steve spotted Gene Winfield’s booth. We went over wished him a happy 96th birthday, and had him autograph a Winfield T-shirt.

Hot tired and sunburnt we headed for the hotel around 4PM where we are as I write this, trying to stay wake…. Too much fun!

We headed home Sunday morning to repeat the battle with 18 wheelers!

Ya shoulda been there!

Larry B

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