2019 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals photos
 

Happy Thanksgiving to all!



I will be posting the pictures that I took at this years Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals over the next few days.



I'd like to thank the principals and all of the folks that are involved with every facet of the show that make it enjoyable and a success-and also make it THE preeminent Muscle Car show to be at. I can't even count how many times I heard that statement made over the weekend...MCACN is the place to be!



I'd also like to thank Bob Ashton for allowing me the opportunity to take photos after hours for everyone to enjoy-and to hopefully make those who happen to miss this years show-to experience it in PERSON!


The friends that I looks forward to seeing at this show..and the new friends that I meet every year are the biggest reason that I enjoy the show. Don't get me wrong, the cars are AMAZING, but it's the folks and the stories behind the cars that make the weekend go by in a blink of an eye.:youguysrock:


The first group are some random shots from Saturday morning, including:

• Doug Perry's Superman Yenko
• The minibike display
• The kids area
• MCACN Judges hard at work
• The A12 area overview and a detail shot
• Crash talking to Jake Dykstra

Here are various shots of the cars behind the A12 Invitational...

and more from the same area :biggthumpup:

These shots are from the same area...and the first ones are Bill Wente's outstanding 1967 SS Chevelle (I just realized I don't think I have any pics of this without people all around it :( )


Enjoy

More from the same area...and also including Tom Rightler and Dave Birdwell judging Jason Boe's L89 Chevelle that Chris White (also seen in the pics) restored :laugh:

These pics include:

• Folks checking out Dave and Dan Schutzbank's unrestored 427 Corvette
• Me spying on Holly...LOL
• Aaron Angelo and Steve Frys
• Rick Nelson talking in front of the Yenko Chevelle
• Doug Perry, his son Austin and Frank Arone in front of the Superman Yenko
• Dru Diesner hard at work judging!
• Then Dru taking the time to visit
• Last pic is Lynn, Holly and Nancy and Robert Lionberger

Bruce surely knows how to capture the essence of MCACN :)

As always....we Thank You!

Dan

These pics include:

• Left to right-Jim Saathoff, Lynn, Rick, Holly and Annie
• Benny with his friend
• Benny getting a Holly hug
• Benny talking to Darrell :)

My pleasure, Dan!:youguysrock:

These pics include:

• Holly and Lynn with Ward Gappa
• Holly, Lynn and Ward again...after Ward said a "funny" :)
• Holly and THE man, Bob Ashton
• The newest weekend addition to the Superman Yenko display...the newpaper stand!:laugh:
• Ken Tibor, Mark Milchak, Don and Judi Stowers
• Holly, "Some Italian guy who is not Orlando Cruz", LOL (inside joke) and Lynn

Thank you Bruce for making the trip and spending so much time making these pictures available to all of us. Somehow each year you manage to get pictures of cars that I didn't even see.

The last two pics for now...Doug Perry and John Weaver.

• First pic is Doug goofing. I mean, when does Doug ever joke around?? Brain Potter photobombing in the background :)
• Second pic is a normal pic!

My pleasure Freddie! Glad we had at least a few minutes to talk :biggthumpup:

More later...from "After Hours".:youguysrock:

Great photos. Didn’t even realize I was getting photo’d.. lol

Here's the beginning of the after hours photos...starting up front and working my way through the different invitational displays and then towards the back!


Included in this group in the Ford and Mercury Total Performance Invitational are the Chrysler Turbine and Ward Gappa's GT500 :headbang:

In this group are the rest of the Ford and Mercury Total Performance Invitational including:

• The 1966 Ford Alloy Body AM GT40/1;This is one of the two alloy body GT40's. This is the actual car that ran the Sebring race and LeMans test days in 1966. It was part of the Alan Mann race team. How's that for significant? The owner has spent over 40 years bringing this car back to its original glory, and has shown it only at Pebble Beach several years ago.

• The first Shelby GT350 Mustang (White one at the bottom)
  

This group of photos has the first part of the Class of 69 Invitational, including:

• Larry Christiansen's Pilot Z/28
• Eddie Martin's #12 ZL-1 Camaro
• Ward Gappa's Indy Pace Camaro
• Butternut Yellow COPO Camaro
• Tommy K's Dusk Blue COPO Camaro

This group is the rest of the Class of 1969 that was up front :headbang:

This group shows the 69 Buick GS Invitational, which includes a Motion prepped 69 Buick GS 400!

This group of photos show the 69 Ford and Mercury Aero Warriors Invitational

This is one of a few MuscleCar Review Cover photo recreations in real life...and includes Van Hurst's COPO Chevelle

This group includes:

• Grady's unrestored Dusk Blue COPO Chevelle and his recently 'Mike Angelo' restored Garnet Red COPO Chevelle!
• Vanguard vendor display
• A tired Dennis Cumby!

More later this morning! :beers:

Bruce has a way of doing that!! :shocked: :BruceRocks:
Fantastic photos as always Bruce!! And thank you for the kind words about my Chevelle!

Here is a picture of almost every car in the show, and some other more fun ones.

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Geeze, Bruce! Looks like my calendar project for next year needs to be 635 months long!!!:worship::burnout:

Great seeing you! Wish we had more time to chat!!!:confused2:

Cheers:beers:
Dave

Dave...LOL:headbang:

Here's Stefano and Beth Bimbi's Nickey display! It's always a pleasure seeing both of these fine folks!!:worship:

Here's the Mecum display, including the Bullitt Mustang :shocked:

Here's the Pontiac Ram Air display, including Wade and Aster Ogle's magnificent ram air IV convertible! :worship: :worship:

Here's the B Body Convertible display!

Here are a few of the Premier Unveilings!

Here's the Aero Warriors 50th Anniversary display.

Here's the Nash Nutz display!!



Included in this display is a black/black/black Rebel "The Machine" that was owned at one time by my friend Ike Ricchio. Also a shadow mask AMX!

Here are some miscellaneous shots for your viewing pleasure :)

Some more miscellaneous shots!

And, the Vintage Certification area!! Included in this group is Kevin DeWitte's Hurst Olds, Scott Tedro and Fred Mandrick's Ming Jade 442, BBBenny's 1969 L78 Camaro and Daniel and Dave Schutzbank's 427 Corvette.





(Sorry about the mess up on the frontal pic...I don't know what happened there???) Maybe a ghost...LOL :(

More later!!:burnout:

Bruce . . . first of all . . . a BIG thank you for posting all the photos. For some reason sites like Hot Rod and Bang Shift haven't posted photos of the show which is something they normally do.

This photo below. The car is I believe, one of the four 1970 Hemi RR convertibles. But the placard in front of it says 1969 which it isn't. Bob A. said that there would be 3 of the 4 cars at the show (the 4th was destroyed years ago). Is this car the 3rd one?

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