OCCA Labor Day Cruise
September 28, 2008 by pikesan
Story by Devin Squire
(Devin’s all Ford Garage)
Well, I just got back from the “Orange County Crusin’ Assoc.’s “Great Labor Day Cruise” in Costa Mesa, California. The weather was great, 80 degrees at the warmest & the 60′s at night. We go there a couple of days early to enjoy some vacation time in southern California. We will spend a day just cruising Pacific Coast Highway, from Huntington Beach down to Laguna Beach, stopping at some of the Surf shops, or stopping at one of the many eateries to get some fish tacos….(Wahoo’s shrimp tacos…mmmmm). Once in a while, I’ll actually take one of my surfboards out in the water & try to surf…key word here is “try”.
OK, now back to the car show.
The car show itself is on Saturday & Sunday, & Monday being the day they hand out awards & trophys. Some of us actually start lining our cars up in the parking lot at the fairgrounds on Friday, so we can be the early birds in to get a good parking spot.
The Embassy Suites in Santa Ana, is the host hotel, & you can see a lot of cool cars just hangin’ around their parking lot. My wife & I spent most of Friday just hangin out there & watching Hotrods come & go to get they’re registrations.
Here’s a short video showing some of the cars coming & going
at the hotel, and a few at the car show.
One of the fun things about this show, is you can cruise the fairgrounds. They have it so you can cruise around & show off your ride & check out the other stuff you might not see. Of course, there’s some big motor rods, you can hear before you see them.
Here’s some of Devin’s Pics from the Orange County Crusin’ Assoc.’s “Great Labor Day Cruise” show
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- 1932 3 window Ford Coupe
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- 1932 Ford gasser
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- 1932 Ford roadster
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- 1932 Ford gasser motor
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- 1939 Ford
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- 1940 Ford
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- 1952 Chevy Custom
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- 1955 Ford wagon
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- 1956 Ford pickup
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- 1960 Ford convertible
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- air bagged party bus
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- Bantam roadster
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- big-motor
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- cool hot rod coupe
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- Ford convertible
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- gasser Chevy coupe
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- GTO El Camino
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- hot rod 40 Ford Ute
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- hot rod 1932 Ford Roadster
Hey Devin, Greetings from South Dakota!
nice blog!
Regarding the ’40 Ford Ute
Them crazy Utes, you just never know what they’re up to. You know that comes from eating Prairie Dogs don’t cha?!?!?!
Blessings from the land of the Mighty Corn Palace (If it ever burns down, it’ll be the biggest popcorn picnic ever seen!)
jg
Here’s a link to more pictures from the show …….
http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk250/DsFords/OCCA%20Labor%20Day%20Cruise-2008/
very cool….I dig the black 1960 Starliner and the Party bus…..=]
hi im looking to preregister for the cruise at oc in costa mesa on labor day who do i contact i have a 1960 short school bus that ive been working on for months and would like to show it off thanks paul of oc 1714 740 2022 thanks for your time
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