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Hi Guys and Gals,
This past weekend I attended the largest and best car show ever. It was put on by one of the largest promoters in the business (don’t think I am allowed to post the name here) and held at the fantastic old Del Mar Fairgrounds just a few miles north of San Diego, California.
There were literally thousands of pre 1972 cars at this event ... Hot Rods, Low Riders, Race Cars, lots of Woodies (We have LOTS of Woodies here in Southern California) Show Cars of every description most all worthy of a spot in a Barrett - Jackson auction.
Spent most of the day ... six and a half hours and walked over three miles as shown on my pedometer ... taking tons of pictures.
Visited the Meguiar’s booth .... GIANT!! They used the Meguiar’s Semi as the back drop plus had more space on each end. The location was right in the middle of the show and you could see the 15' tall bottles of NXT and Gold Class no matter where you went.
Some one on the staff has a great Company Car. Beautiful Black Mercedes with a licence plate that reads “MEGUIAR”. It must belong to Mike Pennington as it was parked in a very protected area just to the back of the booth.
While I was out for my 3 mile walk I thought about all of you in Southern California that Detail Professionally. Maybe a shot in the dark, but armed with a couple of thousand business cards and good walking shoes you should be able to pick up enough business to keep you going for a couple of months. Something to think about next year.
As I was out taking pictures, ran into and spoke briefly with Mr. Barry Meguiar who, with his camera crew were filming for Car Crazy Central. A Fan ... named “Frenchy” ... flagged him down with a shout ... “Hay, I see you on TV all of the time, I would like to meet you”. They chatted briefly - I got a great shot of the two of them and moved on.
I have yet to understand how to post pictures here on the Forum, so I put together a one page Web Site with about 40 photos for those of you could not visit the show.
Here is a link ... http://www.nailarttreasures.com/delmar307/
If this does not work, just copy and paste the following into your address bar and click your GO Button: www.nailarttreasures.com/delmar307/
As an afterthought ... I never did run into Mike Pennington. Do you think that he actually loaned that Mercedes to another member of the staff??
Enjoy the photos.
Harry - “Bene Vita”
This past weekend I attended the largest and best car show ever. It was put on by one of the largest promoters in the business (don’t think I am allowed to post the name here) and held at the fantastic old Del Mar Fairgrounds just a few miles north of San Diego, California.
There were literally thousands of pre 1972 cars at this event ... Hot Rods, Low Riders, Race Cars, lots of Woodies (We have LOTS of Woodies here in Southern California) Show Cars of every description most all worthy of a spot in a Barrett - Jackson auction.
Spent most of the day ... six and a half hours and walked over three miles as shown on my pedometer ... taking tons of pictures.
Visited the Meguiar’s booth .... GIANT!! They used the Meguiar’s Semi as the back drop plus had more space on each end. The location was right in the middle of the show and you could see the 15' tall bottles of NXT and Gold Class no matter where you went.
Some one on the staff has a great Company Car. Beautiful Black Mercedes with a licence plate that reads “MEGUIAR”. It must belong to Mike Pennington as it was parked in a very protected area just to the back of the booth.
While I was out for my 3 mile walk I thought about all of you in Southern California that Detail Professionally. Maybe a shot in the dark, but armed with a couple of thousand business cards and good walking shoes you should be able to pick up enough business to keep you going for a couple of months. Something to think about next year.
As I was out taking pictures, ran into and spoke briefly with Mr. Barry Meguiar who, with his camera crew were filming for Car Crazy Central. A Fan ... named “Frenchy” ... flagged him down with a shout ... “Hay, I see you on TV all of the time, I would like to meet you”. They chatted briefly - I got a great shot of the two of them and moved on.
I have yet to understand how to post pictures here on the Forum, so I put together a one page Web Site with about 40 photos for those of you could not visit the show.
Here is a link ... http://www.nailarttreasures.com/delmar307/
If this does not work, just copy and paste the following into your address bar and click your GO Button: www.nailarttreasures.com/delmar307/
As an afterthought ... I never did run into Mike Pennington. Do you think that he actually loaned that Mercedes to another member of the staff??
Enjoy the photos.
Harry - “Bene Vita”
All those wonderful vehicles. Looking at the pics I thought I was in car heaven.lol That must be a great show.
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