This is one of California’s largest Mustang car shows and is run and organized by the Beach Cities Mustang Club. This is the second year that this event has been held at the "Pike" and by all accounts this location is more popular among the club members and show participants that the previous location across the bay, known as the "Mustangs At The Queen Mary"
Beach Cities Mustang Club started their annual shows back in 1997 with a show at the South Bay Galleria where it was held for 3 years. Then in 2000, they moved it to Long Beach Harbor, creating a great relationship with the Queen Mary.
The first few shows in Long Beach were held in a parking lot closer to the ship, but they quickly outgrew this lot and expanded to the Queen Mary Events Park. Soon after that, they filled that park and had to expand into an additional adjacent parking lot. For 11th years in a row, the Beach Cities Mustang Club have passed the 300 vehicle mark!
Now with their new location almost every parking spot is on the grass and has a stunning view of the Long Beach Harbor and Pacific ocean along with the added convenience of some great local restaurants and bars within walking distance to enjoy during and after the show.
Check out some of the photos taken of this year’s event that happened this weekend Sunday September 27th 2015 - Looks like everyone had a good time with a few interesting cars on display - All Photos Courtesy Of Bryan Rogers
Mustang Madness At The Petersen Museum Los Angeles is coming up quickly. As most Mustang lovers know, their favorite pony car is turning 50 next week and celebrations are happening accross the country the whole month of April and into May. The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles CA is hosting Mustang Madness Saturday & Sunday May 3rd & 4th which will be a weekend of festivities that will include what else but a all-Mustang car show, a sneak peak of the 2015 Mustang before it hits the showroom floor, tours of the Mustangs Forever: 50 Years of a Legend exhibit, live interview sessions with “Mustang Heroes” and fun for the whole family with food tents, live music, a huge play area and museum scavenger hunt for young children.
World champion drifter and founder of Mustang RTR, Vaugh Gittin Jr. will appear on Inside the Motoman Studio on Saturday, May 3 at 10:00am and will sign autographs for fans afterwards and on Sunday, May 4 at 11:00am Beau Boeckmann, President of Galpin Auto Sports will be interviewed Inside the Motoman Studio.
The Car show will be at the Petersen on Sunday, May 4 from 10:00am – 2:00pm. and will feature Bob Fria with the first Ford Mustang, Hollywood Hot Rods’ Troy Ladd and his custom Mustang, Pure Vision’s Martini Mustang and get this both Eleanor cars from the movie Gone in 60 Seconds will be in attendance and you will be able to watch both movies in the Petersen Museum during the day - 11am The 1974 version and at 2pm the most recent 2000 movie. It will be a fun day out for the whole family all day for the kids there will be a 1,000 square-foot bounce house, CXC car racing simulators and a fantastic Petersen Museum Scavenger hunt aswell as live music, food and drinks.
Participants are encouraged to meet at Galpin Ford at 7:00am for a cruise to the Petersen and will end the day at 4:00pm with three cash prizes, including $500 for People’s Choice Best in Show. Henry Ford III presenting the Ford Heritage Award at 2:00pm.
What a great day for a muscle car show - this last Saturday in Deland Florida Brothers Performance hosted their East coast spring car show and sales event and this time the weather was perfect! Things got underway around 10am but there were a lot of people who started arriving early to get a good parking spot and sign up for the dyno shoot out challenge and exhaust sound off around 8am ! As soon as the Brothers crew had all the EZ ups set up, dyno room opened, parking spots reserved for our VIP guests, drink and snacks set up and free hat sign up locations organized - we checked with DJ Randy Anderson to make sure he had the power he needed to spin the decks and that our food vendors Twin Boar BBQ were ready to start serving delicious ribs - pulled pork & beef brisket sandwiches, all reports were good to go - so lets start the show ! By 11am nearly all the available parking on the concrete pad around the building was used up and cars were starting to park on the turn around circle and on the grass - we started to see some amazing cars from friends old and new - some car club members had cruised to the show in a convoy and we even saw that Mid Florida mustang club had a few cars join us earlier in the day, it was great their members back supporting the show as they really bought their members out in force at our grand opening back in August of 2009 - which was an amazing huge event - so thanks again for stopping by, its been a while. We also had a nice showing from a group of members from the Daytona Mustang club - thanks for all your support and the great photos and video you have forwarded to us. We even had a solo member from the space coast mustang club - sorry didn't get his name but we hope to see a larger presence from that club at the next show. The day was starting to roll by and dyno challenge was well under way and our Dyno tuner/ engineer James from Tuning by James already was on his forth or fifth car on the dyno. We had some great raffle prizes from our manufacturers - we had gift certificates from Lloyds floor mats - AGR steering - ARP fasteners - Grant Steering wheels - stage 8 fasteners and Product from Classic Design concepts , PRW, BBK Performance, JLT Performacne Cold air systems, Race ramps, Flowmaster Axle back exhaust , 2 x Moroso axle back exhaust kits and a Boss 302 Intake manifold and installation kit from Ford Racing as the grand prize plus many more !
The Lovely Wing house girls Marissa and Ann Laura were handling the free hat giveaway and selling refreshments in the showroom and the Brothers sales Staff were kept busy with a steady stream of customer sales and tech questions. The day was passing by fast - Twin Boar BBQ were making alot of people happy with their great food including our pinstripper Dr D who we heard had to go back twice for his lunch it was so good. It was already 1pm time for the exhaust sound off - luckily DJ Randy had a wireless mic that actually worked 150 feet away from his equipment - and it was perfect except for when his equipment malfunctioned for a brief moment decided to enter the sound off on its own. All exhaust sound off contestants were called up in order and proceeded to back up to the line and when given the nod from our exhaust sound engineer Santana Lugo they let it rip ! - Decibels were noted on the sign up sheet from our meter that was placed in exactly the same place for all contestants. (see the video) All participants sounded off and we sorted through the paper work to find the eventual winner of the $250 first prize
Here are the results for the exhaust sound off :
Luis Quintero - 2011 Camaro V6 - 120.2 DB
Bob Bender - 2004 Cobra - 119.8 DB
Steve Koenegcy 03 Mustang GT - 118.6 DB
Tim Biers 67 Chevy Nova - 117.4 DB
Jason Lawrence 2011 Mustang V6 -117.0DB
Sean Malchiodi 06 Mustang GT - 116.8 DB
Carl Pence 2010 Roush 427R -115.8 DB
Brad Fender jr 03 Cobra - 115.7 DB
Stephen Snyder 96 Cobra - 114.3 DB
Al Brunette 08 Mustang GT - 113.9 DB
Max Berriozabal 89 GT 351 - 113.0 DB
Ian Auld 08 Mustang GT - 112.0 DB
Pamela Santana 04 Mustang GT - 108.9 DB
Mario Florendo - 108.0 DB
Craig Wood 09 Mustang GT - 102.8 DB
We still had a few more raffle prizes to give away and Randy had the job of pulling the last winning tickets around 3pm - we can say there were a lot of lucky & happy winners as the day's events started to slowly wind down - it had been a good 95 degrees most of the day with nice breeze and occasional cloud cover to give us all a break from the direct sun and heat - we also had EZ ups for people to get shade when they needed it. The Dyno Shootout was coming to an end and James spend time talking to owners on how they could improve the performance of their cars with a better tune.
Here are the Dyno Shootout results:
Michael Yannone 2006 GTO - 757Hp-682Tq
Leo Simmone 2004 Cobra - 630Hp-534Tq
Edgar Quigley 2003 Cobra - 411Hp-429Tq
Tia Medrauo 2010 SS Camaro - 363HP-367Tq
Brian Montero 1992 Mustang LX - 303Hp-323Tq
Michael Jones 2005 Magnum R/T - 273Hp-296Tq
Jordan Hurley 2009 Cobalt SS - 267Hp-294Tq
Luis Quintero 2010 Camaro V6 - 267Hp-247Tq
Bill Fleckenstein 1962 Corvette - 264Hp-331Tq
Jonathon Co 1989 Mustang 5.0 - 216Hp-256Tq
Thanks to our VIP guests Hector from Central Florida Mustangs who bought along their world record quarter mile 2012 V6 Mustang which was a definite show pleaser and also a big thanks to Gus Irizarry - sales manager at Steeda for bringing the Steeda Q shop car all the way from Pompano Beach.
Our thanks go out to our vendors for your support , but our biggest thanks go out to each and every one of you that came down with their cars or just to see what was going on - we look forward to seeing you all again in the fall for our next event - we will see you then
We Are Pleased To Announce The Details For Our May 5th 2012 Spring Event
Attention:
ALL Mustang, Camaro, Corvette, Challenger, Charger and ALL Car & Truck Enthusiasts ! We would like to invite everyone out to our Deland facility for a fun day in the sun - Its going to be a perfect spring day in Sunny Florida (we are sure of it ) so come on out with your family, friends and favorite ride and enjoy a day showing it off and hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. We will kick everything off as usual around 10am at our Showroom/Warehouse and Dyno facility location in Deland, Florida in between Orlando and Daytona off I4 @ SR44
Free Dyno* Competition Open to ALL makes and models $250 in prizes ( *Limited to first come first served only , NO exceptions - No Nitrous Allowed)
Free Exhaust Sound Off Competition - $250 In prizes (no Open Exhaust DB Sound Measured at The tailpipes)
Live DJ with Raffle Prizes and Free Giveaways
The Usual beautiful Winghouse Girls from Daytona Beach
Food & Refreshments will be available during the show hours provided by our friends from Twin Boar Barbeque - Pulled Pork Sandwiches - Ribs and More
Also everyone in attendance can ENTER TO WIN A FREE MUSTANG & A Free Trip ToCalifornia.
Please note: The Free chassis dyno runs are limited to as many as we can run during the limited time)* Sorry we cannot guarantee everyone a spot but we will do our best.
For more information please contact:
Brothers Performance 800-486-2681 or stop by the Deland Store location at