38th Annual Winter AutoFest Zephryhills, Florida

Calling All Rodders,
  The Zephyrhills Winter AutoFest is a big automotive event featuring all four days a swap meet and car corral. Also all four days, there's exciting exhibition racing on the 1/3 mile unbanked dirt track with stock cars, sprint cars & midgets from the '30's, '40's, '50's & '60's. On Friday & Saturday, there's a highly-regarded collector car auction. Visit the www.zephyrhillsfestivals.com web site to see over pictures of prior AutoFests including aerial photos of the 207 acre Zephyrhills Festivals site known as Festival Park on U.S. 301 near Tampa.

We are traveling down to see this again this year.  It is quite impressive and one of the largest car events in central Florida.  Well worth the trip.  Maybe we will see you there.

Sumter Winter Extravaganza Auto Swap Meet Car Corral Car Show

Calling All Rodders,

Hosted by Old Gold Retold, and held at the Sumter County Fairgrounds, 7620 SR 471, there's three big days of the automotive swap meet. The car show portion offers cash prizes, door prizes, and a Club Participation award of a trophy and cash.  The fairgrounds  were full even with the weather a little cloudy to start off the day.  Vendors galore ans many great deals.  They hosted a car corral and car show on the grounds. All in all a very nice big show well worth the time taken to go.  See ya at our next adventure from Florida.

Guitars & Cars Show Mt Dora Florida

Calling All Rodders
Today we were off to Mt. Dora Florida to attend the Guitars and Cars Show.  This event is held the second Sunday of every month two swap meets in one.  The Musicians swap meet and the Car & Cycle swap meet and car show.

It was a rather chilly day today so the attendance was down, but the sun was shining and the air was filled with music.
Car Custom restoration and modifications do general mechanics, bumper to bumper no job too simple or to big, came to show off the latest project.  What a beauty...

Many swap meet parts to examine along the way.  Mr Ed Stiles a carburetor rebuilder was there also buying and selling carbs and talking shop with Rex.  All in all it was a good day can't wait to go to this event again.

Cruise Town Erie 2012

Calling all Rodders,
George Lyons will again host the Cruise Town Erie Event.  They have announce the dates and they are:
June 8,2012,July 27, 2012 and Sept 7,012.  Last year over 800 cars enjoyed the event, make sure to mark your calendars and plan on attending.

Mecum's Auto Auction Kissimmee FL

Calling All Rodders,

Things to do....  We got up early this morning and traveled to Kissimmee Florida to experience the Mecum Auto Auction what a great experience.  Tents and tents of beautiful cars waiting for buyers.
They have been selling cars for 25 years and they have this function running smoothly. This event runs 4 days and is televised on the Velocity channel by Discovery.There is make and model of every kind here. All in all is was a great day and worth the drive.  We will go again next year.  Maybe as a bidder then!

A fun day in Daytona Beach

Calling All Rodders,

Today's fun was in Daytona Beach Florida.  First stop a drive on the beach with friends Ron & Jean from Canada. There we found the Daytona Free Style event going on a competion with jet skis,  Awesome site!

Next we are off to find a place to eat... And it was a wonderful BBQ place!
Where to next lets go check out Daytona Speedway... we get there and they are doing practice runs for the Daytona 500! And the best part admission to the speedway today is FREE...Bonus!! 

American Classic Motor Cars

Calling All Rodders,

Well we have made it to the sunny south although its been cool, we have enjoyed our trip.  Today, we were out driving around looking for a Harbor Freight Store when we came across this nice shop in Ocala Florida.  They are called American Classic Motor Cars.  They Buy, Sell, and Consign Classic and Antique Automobiles, with a full service Department  and ASE Certified Techs. 



They have 17000 sq ft of showroom. 













Here are a few of the cars we saw while there.  Some of these cars are sheduled to go the Mecum Car Auction at the end of Jan.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.