Category Archives: Chrysler

Here comes the 2012 L.A. Auto Show

Ready or not here it comes.  This year has a ton more hype and likely well deserved. There will be 50 debuts, with as many as 20 being World Premieres.  Some of the debuts are so secret that on the … Continue reading

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Island Girl is my best of show at Monrovia Auto Show

My absolute favorite car at the recent Monrovia Classic Car show brought to us by the good folks at Streetrods Forever was “Island Girl”.  This gem started out as a standard issue barn find 1960 DeSoto Fireflite and was customized … Continue reading

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Street Rods Forever annual Old Town Monrovia Car show 9/8/12

Time to start your count down to one of the best Hot Rod/Street Rod shows in all of L.A. (maybe So Cal even?). Saturday September 8, 2012 is the date for the annual Street Rods Forever to be held in … Continue reading

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12th Annual Meguiar’s Del Mar Nationals…a car show so big it needs 3 days

The 12th Annual Megquiar’s Del Mar Nationals are this weekend. Its so big Humongous that it really needs an extra day for you to take it all in.  Featured is only pre-1972 automobiles, and American made ones at that. On … Continue reading

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What you get at Press Days for the L.A. Auto Show

November 16 and 17 were the Press Days at the L.A. Auto Show.  How does it differ from the public days?  Plenty of ways. First is that the world press is very well represented and English is hardly the primary … Continue reading

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Fiat 500 almost on sale in So Cal

The dealers (Studios in Fiat talk) will be getting the first of the cars in the next few weeks for the launch of the 2012 Fiat 500.  The “Studios” are limited to a few major urban areas with a total … Continue reading

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Too bad it wasn’t filmed in sunny So Cal

I found this interesting mash up as a response to the “we’re back” commercials being run by GM and Chrysler on YouTube this morning.  Unfortunately it couldn’t use sunny So Cal as a back drop as its obviously a lot … Continue reading

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Today is Superbowl and I’m watching the car commercials too.

Instead of skipping the commercials I’ll actually be watching the car commercials to see how far the manufacturers have fulled out the stops.  Its been rumored that Chrysler has bought a full 2 minute slot for a 3rd quarter commercial … Continue reading

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