Autorama made a brief stop in Detroit the second weekend of March 2008 before drifting away towards its next destination. While in Detroit, the custom car showcase displayed an array of vehicles, both old and new, reinforcing, and in some cases, sparking new love-affairs with the car lover in everyone.

At the event you had your coupes, your roadsters, drop-heads, big blocks, dragsters, and of course custom kit cars. But aside from the wheels, there was also a breakdancing competition, an extreme pin-up girl contest, and a bikini contest. Relax. I know right about now you’re like, “What the heck is this guy talking about! Get back to the cars!” But let me explain.

These three events stood out, to me, basically because each event represented an allegorical philosophical approach to which some people view automobiles, sub-consciously for the most part.

Take breakdancing for instance. Breakdancing is now well into its third generation (that‘s old in pop-culture terms), yet the maneuvers are still being performed as they originally were, with minimal changes/”upgrades” and it’s just as trendy and awe-inspiring as it was the first time you saw it. Take a look at this Corvette: Continue Reading…

2008 marks the 100th edition of the Chicago Auto Show. Since 1901, Chicago has been home to the largest auto show in the nation, giving us car-loving mid-western corn dwellers something to be proud of.

This year, the show will be featuring over 1,000 vehicles for a full 10 days. If you’re going, admission is $10 for adults, $5 for kids and seniors. The show starts on Friday, Feb. 8th to Sunday, Feb. 17th, and the floor will be open from 10AM to 10PM every day except the last, in which the floor will close at 8PM. One cool display will the special 100th Edition stage featuring some significant cars from the beginning of the 20th Century.

Make sure to head down to the bottom of this article for a full map of the show this year.

Update: 2008 Chicago Auto Show

We’ve been attending the Chicago Auto Show for quite a few years now, and every year we’re just as excited to go as the last. This year looks pretty promising, although a bit lacking in terms of concept cars. It seems manufacturers are starting to pay closer attention to their budgets, and aren’t going as all-out on concepts as they used to. Regardless, here are a few concept cars on display this year: Continue Reading…

Hundreds of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Alfa Romeos and other Italian exotics showed up for Concorso Italiano in Monterey, CA last Friday. I really wanted to attend, but couldn’t find the time this year. Hopefully next year will prove differently. Although the Concorso is called “The Celebration of Italian Style” and focused on Italian Sports Cars, there were plenty of other enthusiast cars present, such as Rolls-Royce, Saleen, BMW, Lotus, and more.

At Concorso Italiano, Ferrari celebrated the 50th anniversary of the gorgeous 250 GT California Spyder, while Lamborghini President Stephan Winklemann and test driver Valentino Balboni were present to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the legendary Countach, showing off the first Countach ever produced.

A few other notable cars present, were the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Lambo Murcielago R-GT race car, and 1 of only three Lamborghini Miura Roadsters. Continue Reading…

Last Friday was the 2007 Concorso Italiano. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it this year, but tomorrow you’ll see a comprehensive post reviewing the event with over 100 pictures. In the mean time, check out the video: Continue Reading…

Last week I mentioned we were going to Hot Import Nights in Minneapolis, MN. It was an interesting event to say the least, with a bunch of hot cars and even hotter models. Unfortunately, the lighting in the Convention Center was terrible, so it was really hard to take many good pictures. I did what I could to fix them up, so go take a look at the gallery below for all the photos (some of them are NSFW.)

All-in-all, the show was fun. We met some cool people, saw the local tuner cars (as well as a couple exotics,) watched some gorgeous go-go dancers and other models, saw some local performers and DJs, and watched some of the other various performances such as break-dancers and a really lame wanna-be version of the 8-Mile Eminem insult rap-off. Continue Reading…

Update: $5 off coupon for HIN tickets at the end of this post!

There’s nothing better than last-minute plans. Tomorrow - Saturday, September 22nd from 5 PM to midnight - we’re going to be attending the Hot Import Nights event in Minneapolis, MN. This will be the first HIN we’ve been to, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it from others that I’ve talked to about it, so this should be fun. If there’s one around your area, be sure to attend.

Keep an eye out for a bunch of pictures and maybe a few articles about it over the next couple of weeks.

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There’s bound to be a ton of really hot cars there, and rest assured we’ll get their pictures. Stuff Magazine rated Hot Import Nights #5 among the top 20 hippest items and happenings in their August issue. Is anybody else going? Continue Reading…