pics from american car day, woodend, cristchurch, nz.

i went over to woodend just out of christchurch for the USA car show today. lots of cool cars, some hamb friendly, some not. i took lots of pics but ill try not to show anything uncool. there were 3 to 4 hundred cars. awesome day, we had a ball.

 

there where a few studes there, but the pics didnt come out great. this bomber had nice paint.

 

the blue ford ute was cool and the c cab is pretty new.

 

i can only load 4 at a time. this may take awhile.

 

love these tail lights.

 

it was a real relaxing show. you could move around freely and there never seemed to be a problem taking pics with people getting in your way.

 

the terraplane was cool. this 40 chev truck was signwritten by my buddy gonk.

 

this nomad was real clean like the engine in the cad. sorry, i cocked up the pic of cad but had to show it anyway so you can see what the engine lives in.

 

cool 36.

 

Cool...

 

i have long liked desotos. this 34 was my favorite. love all this art deco carry on. its so hiddeous, how could you not love it?!

 

some art shots. the v8 chopper isnt hamb material but it was cool.

 

the 32 roadster is an old christchurch hot rod.

 

check out the steering wheel.

 

chevrolet campers! a couple of chevy trucks and a police car.

 

some more art shots.

 

skinnys gasser sign written by gonk and an old indian and v8 chopper.

 

another desoto and a couple of fords.

 

and thats almost all of em.

 

except for i saved my favorite till last. this is an old rod from the 70s.

 

after these last pics, im going to put a vid or two on. the very last pic was taken on the way to the show.

 

heres dennis in his old hot rod heading home.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QD9TGepUg-Q&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QD9TGepUg-Q&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> that some more of gonks work on the cowl.

 

dont see to many around now days. i saw a thread on these things a while back.

 

Thanks for taking the time to post those pics. Looked like a great show! You guys have beautiful scenery over there too!

-Chris

 

thanks Chris. i had to put the scenery shot in as the day was to good not to.

 

Looks like you guys had a good time. Can't imagine how hard it must be to get parts to do repairs. Very cool!

 

doc, we dont have any trouble getting parts here. theres hot rod shops everywhere just like a lot of countries now days. hot rodding sure has taken off world wide which is evident by the amount of people on this board. its a bueatiful thing. oh, and your avatars cool.

 

Thanx for the pics and taking the time to post them. Is this the show called Americana? There's a couple of Christchurch rodders and their wives over here doing the John's Picnic, Croydon Swap, Bright Rod Run and Bendigo Swap and we were talking about your biggest runs at Bright on the weekend.

Loved your scenery shot, looks so green while it's drying off real quick over here. Got my first snake yesterday but you don't have that problem LOL

swifty

 

Man, that SuperVee is an uncommon bike around here...really odd to see one down under.

 

swifty, it was called USA day, i got the title wrong. Americana is coming to the south island though. its in invercargill and may end up in christchurch too. you guys have some great events to, ive been to wintersun and i love willowbank raceway. skajaquada, the super vee was the first one ive ever seen, but we do have a healthy bike scene here. a mate owns an 08 screaming eagle V rod and a screaming eagle dresser which he just crashed and spent 14 hours in a ditch before he was found. hes going to be ok, not sure how the bike is though.