Pinetop Fall Festival and Car Show

[Philthy]

Weekend of Sept 24th. Supposed to be a pretty cool car show, I'll be there but mostly just to clean junk out of the in laws cabin. I'll be the man in the...uh, Honda minivan

That is all, thank you, drive through.

[Bphilly]

Will there be basket weaving?

[wgnths]

i can add to my pinecone collection! any more info on this show?

[Philthy]

All your information

http://www.pinetoplakesidechamber.com/runtothepines-com/

[wgnths]

ahh its a pre '73 only show.....i like rods but not enough to drive up there. :wink:

[F-This]

i like rods :wink:

:?

[wgnths]

you know. :)

[F-This]

I thought it was our little secret tho

[Philthy]

The show actually ended up being pretty good. Weather was perfect and some of the cars were pretty amazing. Orange seemed to be the "in" color. My favorite was a red 69 Camaro with 502 crate motor and Centerlines. It just symbolized "muscle car" too me. Made me want to regrow my mullet and start listening to hair metal. Wife's favorite was an orange Chevelle, that, honestly, I don't even remeber. A couple other notables were the Cobra/GT40 group, 1 of 1 white 69 convertable COPO Camaro's produced with the 427, lots of 30's rods, mid 50's Chevys, more T-Birds than you could shake a stick at and one completely restored and utterly huge 40's dumptruck. Not a bad showing.

[moxie]

Sounds cool :)

[pickinicholas]

I heart muscle cars!!!!

[wgnths]

copo camaro with a 427 will always be at the top of my "wish" list.

[pickinicholas]

WTF is a "copo" camaro?

[Philthy]

Central Office Production Order.

All those bad ass big block muscle cars with manual trannys and disk brakes that you hear about but never see were similar to COPO cars. Basically, the customer had to know the option codes, go to a dealer that could order what they wanted (some dealers couldn't) and hand over a big check. Eventually, Chevy, Dodge or Ford would get around to building the car and eventually the dealership would get it. Alot of times you had to either be in good with the dealership or convince them you were gonna go racing. At least that's how I read that it worked, by the time I was born, people were buying Mustang IIs and Chevettes, no one would COPO one of those.