Event Coverage Thanks to all who attended the Shifters Viva Las Vegas #13 ~ LOTS OF PICTURES!

Hopefully I can make it with the Galaxie next year. May or may not be fully finished by then. Stupid small budget is running me ragged,haha

 

Travis,

Then make sure your car is there next year and hang out on Thursday and Friday, no crowds at all. Saturday definately gets busy..............

 

All the shows on the west coast are like that! People just love car shows!!! If you have a car in the show,you get in before the gates open. That's how I got almost all of my car pic's. You never know...Axle might make it bigger next year.

 

The song changeups were fun, especially when he started to play See See Rider and the band didn't know it. I wondered if the bass player was gonna take a swing at him with the Chapman stick.

I finally got most of my photos done and on my server:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2010/20100403/Welcome.html

Now I gotta go finish the photos from the Imperial Palace collection. I've never seen so many frikkin Rolls-Royces in one place in my life. It'd really be kool to do a radical kustom on wonna them. Maybe somebody has. If it can be done with and Auburn 810 Speedster, I guess a Rolls is fair game. I don't think I've seen many Mercedes 300 SL Gullwings but I DID see a kustom Ferrari GTO at the Boise, Idaho show a few weeks back:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2010/20100312/single/1003120004.html

Ok. Coffee break's over. Back on my head.

 

Chevy Asylum,
Just for the record, the Deuce sedan and that Model A coupe were pre registered and allowed in to the show. Lets get facts correct guys. Thank you.

 

Johnny, thanks again for taking care of our T~shirts.

 

Hey Axle! Mrs Axle! Shifters!
Thank You! We had a great time! Going to shows sometimes is a lil bit of work & hassel but once you are lucky enough to go to Viva I think most of us would go again tomorrow! What blows me away with Viva is the whole Viva setting! This show brings out the most varity of cars & people & (GIRLS) I have ever seen! it is just Plain Bitchin! Thanks for letting the Gassers be part of Viva! KIWI KEVIN HAS A NASTY HABIT OF BEING THE COOLEST DUDE!!!! Thanks Again! Bill @ Solo Speed Shop

 

I had a great time this year. I saw a lot of bitchin' rides! Thanks Axle for the primo parking spot next to the DJ booth. Made it quite convenient to walk over and grab a beer out of the ice chest. On side note, the only thing that sucked was driving home, hung over, in 35 mile per hour winds. The gusts blew my ride around like a rag doll.

 

Axle,
The car show was great and we had a great time. Viva was an awesome time this year and we will be back next year.

 

Not a problem my friend!

 

Funny, normally 1953 - 1954 Chevy's have every car beat at a major car show like VLV. Don't know what it was but the top car of the weekend was 1960 Chevy's - El Co's, wagons, Impala's, 2 door sedans,etc. They are a great body style though. Anyone else notice that?

 

I noticed that too....There were quite a few late 50s early 60s car this year. Its noce to see them though. I really cant get over that 60 ford wagon.. Its just perfect!

 

You talking about little Johnny? He had another car I remember him working on,a custom way back in the day.

 

Looked like a great show! Excellent pics! Thanks for posting!

 

Hey axel i missed out on the shirts do you have any left at all.Would love to grab one.Could i PM you if you have any?

 

A few left in Large and a few left in X Large

 

We had a great time.

 

Drove from NC to Vegas for sons wedding 4-2.Sent allday sat at the carshow,got sunburned had a great time.Made it home today 5 women & 1 old truckdriver in a minivan for 6500 miles in 2 weeks.Jimmie King

 

Great day, and She made my ride look hot!

 

Hear hear!

 

Uh, yes. Thanks for the pics.

 

Its a 4 day show now.....

 

50's cars are beat to death...60's where its at!!..

 

That show was a great time, we only spent Saturday with you but looking forward to meeting up with some of the friends I made. And now I really want to cut my roof!
Let me know whe the Shifters "Do Havasu".

 

It was much less crowded than I expected even when Chuck was on, having never been to VLV before.
I was up at 6.00AM with Jet Lag on the Saturday morning and took a look around as the cars were arriving, great time for getting pics.
Jerry Lee now thats going to be worth coming over for next year.
Some great cars
Met some great folks
Everyone friendly
Well done guys.

Rich

 

I believe they are talking the car show itself.

 

Hi Alxe from paco Indianapolis

 

thank you!
so much more than i expected. ive always heard about it and read it in magazines, but always expected it to be a bit of a rock-a-billy hipster type hangout... i was totally blown away by the whole show! the cars! the people! the bands! the pabst! (the hangover!) so many people smiling and havin fun, even if it was just revin their engine, or passin out in the back seat. so many amazing cars.
i put off goin for 13 years, now me and my girl are thinkin of makin it our annual trip!!!!
thanks so much for makin the effort to do something cool for everyone else! hope it is all worth the stress in the end!!!!

p.s. the 36 that won the award was beautiful!

cheers. dave.r.
p.s. the only down side (apart from the hangover) was the wind on the drive back to l.a. on monday, if you could maybe do something about that for next year???? haha...

 

Number 14 is only 1 year away !

 

wow after looking at that group of pictures , I gotta get off my ass and get in the garage ..been kinda ho humm these few days, spring fever I guess, but hell the dog has been fed its a fantastic weather day ..and I need to do the check list on the '46 rat truck..thanks for the great pics.. got me going again !! now where did I put that damn surf music,