MotorFanatics - Motor and Media Blog» Motor Blog http://motorfanatics.com What Makes Cars Cool Tue, 18 May 2010 20:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Was that the General Lee? http://motorfanatics.com/2010/05/09/was-that-the-general-lee/ http://motorfanatics.com/2010/05/09/was-that-the-general-lee/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 23:24:23 +0000 MotorDan http://motorfanatics.com/?p=988 dscn0459 Living in Southern California has its ups and downs. Homes are pretty expensive, there are WAY to many people, the state is broke, and the traffic BLOWS. But there are the upsides, spectacular weather, and the cars you see on the road daily, would rival those of most car shows. That makes the local car shows absolutely incredible, but the event I recently attended was different. This one was special.

Every month or so, CBS studios invites its employees to a bring their cars to the Studio City lot, and hosts a private gathering. Guys bring everything from exotics to classics, but this particular day had a cherry on top, the guys over at Cinema Vehicle Services, decided to make some calls and invite as many movie car owners as possible. So I got a last minute call from my friend Fireball Tim, and we where off.

Unfortunately for Chris, he had already committed to other plans that day, unfortunate for him for 2 reasons; one, he had to miss the show, but secondly the CBS studio city lot is located literally a stones throw from his back deck.

Well, Fireball Tim had set up our transportation for the day, and he delivered the 1970 dodge challenger that Vin Diesel drove in the fast and the furious. What a beast.

The show was not huge, but it was pretty entertaining to see the vehicles. We got to take a tour of the studio, walk down the NY city set from Seinfeld, and I even got a hug from Sofia Loren! Watch the video, and take a look at the gallery to see some of the highlights.

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We stayed in Rockford last night and made the quick drive up to Madison this morning.  The drive was smooth and easy, and we found the Pacer cruises best around 85.  Autobahn much?  Unfortunately not.  We arrived in Madison, and soon started to see muscle cars and hot rods and followed the pack to Alliant Energy Center where we registered and started checking out the power shenanigans.

The best part about the Power Tour is that people show up to drive rain or shine.  They’re predicting rain for the next few days, but it hasn’t really hampered things at all.  Tomorrow morning there should be some drag racing on the way to Racine, but it might get rained out.  Finger’s crossed the rain holds off until after we can get the Pacer down the ¼ mile a couple times.  Might even get to run the OTHER Pacer that showed up too!

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