No More Paso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there finally was a last Paso..................

Choptop...I'm with you. Plenty of other places to stop for gas, etc...

Bryan

 

Man.......It feels like your best friend moving away. Allot of history and stories with Paso. It's a shame. Man it be surreal to drive there on Memorial day weekend and see empty..............

Ken

 

Dont the GOLD CHAINERS have the big Fathers day show at the Paso fairgrounds a few weeks later? thin k maybe attendence has dropped over the years? So Bobby Goldchain and his buddies go to city council meeting and stir up some shit so the city will throw the hoodlums out and since no show ....they will wait a few weeks and come to the Fathers day show and then they will be filthy stinking rich? ???????????


Come on Scooby lets go get some snacks!!!!!

Someone close by should go door to door and let the business owners know and get word to the towns people so they can have a rumble at the next city council meeting....

GO FIGURE!!!!! One of the biggest shows in the WORLD!!!! people from MARS came to that show every fucking year!!!! (they were the spandex people i believe)Does this moron even know how big this show is? Get this assholes address and get a line of primered cars to pull up to his house every day for a week....Fuck em' Move it to San Luis Obispo....All they have is the Portuguese Festival...Or Pismo...Morro Bay/Los Osos(on the beach at the rock and eveywhere else in Morro Bay!!!

I for one will write the city hall and express my opinion!!!! You Should too!!!!

I bet Boyd knows the asshole in charge!

 

GREAT NEWS!!!

Fuck Paso! No need to go to a town that doesn't want us there. They have made that painfully clear ($$$) for years. No love lost here.

Santa Maria here I come!!!

The only bummer is that Santa Maria is 60 miles further south. You lazy So-Cal fuckers have it even easier now.

 

Little longer drive for the Nor Cal people but otherwise... I'm good.

Santa Marie here I come.

 

I'M WITH KIRK !!!!

 

what a joke...
Paso is the biggest part of my car show budget.
now Santa Maria will get my $$

 

Bummer, I never got to go.

 

So DD, YOU are absolutely fucking 100% POSITIVE it was the gold chainers that stirred the shit pot?

OR are you just throwing up shit and running your mouth? And that's what it looks like to me...

So what it the gold chainers do have a big show there...??? I doubt anyone is getting rich...

Besides, what's Coddington got to do with it...??? Oh, wait, you must think he's a "gold chainer"...

R-

You drive a primered car...???

 

We should all show up in Paso anyway... and do big burnouts and puke in the park........

 

It's TRUE. I've been sitting on this for a couple weeks as per Penny's wishes. I'm gonna try and go up with her to one of her meetings and scope out the town. I'll try and find something to replace the A&W, the Bowling Alley, and other hangouts for before and after show hours. Things that made Paso cooler than most events

 

937 S Thornburg St, Santa Maria, CA 93458
Just South of Main St




Marcy

 

I wonder how long it will be till the same dummies that made fun of the Bike Patrol will kill this new venue?? It's sad but sometimes you have to Police your own crew. No matter what the show the people are kinda like guests there and should try and act so. I have never been to Paso so I cannot comment on too much other then whats been posted here . I guess it's about " Attitude "

 

well doesn't that suck. I've been going there since I don't know when.

the part about no primer cars says a lot about the many reasons why the city decided to make these changes. it only takes a few assholes to fuck it up for everyone.

it will never be the same anywhere else. just another show now....

 

Their greed just bit them on the ass. Let them try to get $200+tax a nite with a 3-day minumum at the Budget Inn from a whiner. I talked to Timmy T who owns the Pizza joint near the Paso Inn, and he said if the show moves he's gonna bill the Mayor $10,000. That's how muck MORE he makes on our weekend. The Motel owner where i stay says it's his biggest weekend. It's decisions like this that kill small town America. Kill a few Ma/Pa businesses with moves like this, and then comes WalMart

 

Took a lot of heat for saying it might be time to move the party a couple months ago...
wasn't wishing for it but it sure seemed inevitable...
gonna miss it.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=168522


Terry

 

It'll be TOO LATE. This is a done deal unless they come crawling. But, even then, Penny says she's outgrown the town anyway.

 

It will have a little less character being at a fairgrounds, but I go for the people anyway, so I'll still have a blast.

 

booked at the inn, They have a speedway in town too!

 

that place is awesome, I hope he's able to go through with that! A friend of mine over there knows him personally and said he's a great dude...aside from that the food was good and the atmosphere/service rocked.

as for the dumbass hecklers...man I wanted to pound those guys in the face but it just doesn't do any good; it sucks, you can't reason with or beat a drunk idiot and make much effective progress. guys like that will eventually wreck it in Santa Maria or anywhere else. can we set up an unofficial security force to beat stupid people and throw them out? haha.

still stoked that I got to go this year, I popped my Paso cherry on the last Paso show ever. pretty bummed that I didn't go to the previous ones.

 

It's not the destination, it's the journey. Santa Maria seems like a cool town and if they want the show then everyone needs to come and thank them by spending our hard earned cash. I'll still call it Paso even if it's not there. I still call the GNRS "Oakland".
Thanks for finding the fairgrounds Marcy it looks to be right in the middle of town.
"Ghetto of the central coast" Hell Yes!! Seems like my kinda' town. -stick

 

That's funny, me too, I was thinking about the exact same thing earlier.

 

Also, stopping at Santa Maria a few times (a bite to eat and gas), you tend to forget that you're still in California. Though I can't judge a town by the few folks I saw, but....No shoes needed, or teeth, and it's OK to leave your crack pipe outside the door. San Luis Obispo would have been nice, I really like this place with lots of cool hangouts.

Ken

 

Some stupid hottrodders may have had a part in this but let's not forget the locals. They caused alot of the grief if not more so.
We need to support Penny and keep Rich's legacy alive. -stick

 

I think the interesting note that keeps getting posted is how the "tuff-guyz" (and lets be honest 95% of them don't even have a car at the show) come to these events like Pasoin huge droves and play Mike Ness all weekend- Acting tough, yelling at cops, and starting fights. Its not the primered cars that bummed Paso out, I bet it was the 10,000 jerks who showed up to "hang out" at the show.

I still say cable hot rod shows ruined it for us! =-)

 

I though Atascadero was the ghetto of the central coast.

 

Glad I made it out this year. It is a shame to move a town show to the fairgrounds but if that is what it takes to keep it going, so be it.

 

Being I moved to WV from Santa Maria (2 blocks from the fairgrounds!) just about 4 years ago all I need to say is watch out for people driving 1986 Datsuns or Toyotas. Check with "The Bent Axels" car club (gold chains) as they have a show there every year, plus the truck shows they have at the Fairgrounds. Lots of hotels/motels with in 20 miles or so.
The real Ghetto of the Central Coast is San Luis Obipo and that's in the city hall.

 

i am looking forward to it........already have my reservation at the Santa Maria Inn.........

 

I'm just hoping we won't have to move our rides in and out every day like passhole made us do. That part of it sucked. Yeah, change is good sometimes...