2011 Viva Las Vegas 14 – Pinstriping Styles
April 25, 2011 by pikesan · Leave a Comment
2011 Viva Las Vegas Car Show Pinstriping Designs
If you’ve never been to Viva Las Vegas Car Show, you’re missing out on some of the best pinstriping designs. The suede paint of the custom cars and the vintage hot rod style both fit perfectly with a few carefully placed pinstriping lines.
To give you some ideas for your ride, here’s a collection of pinstriping from the car show.
See all of the MyRideisMe.com coverage of Viva Las Vegas here: Viva Las Vegas Car Show or you can go straight to more pinstriping here: Pinstriping Features and Pictures
2nd Look – 6 Viva Las Vegas Customs
April 23, 2011 by pikesan · Leave a Comment
2011 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Car Show
To late for any more info… here’s the customs I liked from Friday at Viva Las Vegas Car Show. Which one’s your favorite so far?
All the way from Australia.
Wagons Rule!
Maybe the coolest custom at the show.
Suede paint Ford Thunderbird with some cool pinstriping.
Was orange the theme this year? This Fury had some kick’n flake on the roof.
To see what you might have missed from years gone by, here’s the Viva Las Vegas Car Show pictures from the last 3 years.
First Look – Viva Las Vegas 14 Hot Rods
April 23, 2011 by pikesan · Leave a Comment
2011 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Car Show
It’s time! Don’t wait for months for magazine coverage, you got it right now!
Las Vegas, Nevada greeted visitors from all over the world with near perfect weather and some great traditional styled hot rods. Here’s pictures from Friday April, 22 in one small part of the greater Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender event, but of course our favorite at MyRideisMe.com… the car show.
Let’s kick it off with the hot rods. Viva’s car show might have been known for “rat rods” in the past, but I see fewer and fewer rides that most would label as rat rods. They’re more accurately called traditional style hot rods.
If you think this is a rat rod, it’s time for a lesson. Traditional hot rods choose vintage engines like flatheads instead of more common, later motors like small block Chevy’s. They’re also alot more likely to run wire wheels and bias ply tires. The one thing they may have in common is a total lack of paint or a rusty or patina look. Why? It could be the owner just hasn’t got to paint yet, or maybe that’s what they want! This 1934 coupe looks like its part way through finishing the chop.
This hot rod also features a flathead but went all out with green metal flake that dazzled everyone walking by. Look for more pictures of this pickup coming soon.
One of my favorite hot rods at the show should never be mistaken for a rat. The details, fit and finish of this roadster says it’s a professional build. It’s not painted, but that’s either a transition step in the build or a way to show off straight the body is without any bondo.
Wide White walls and steel wheels with caps are also fit perfectly on a traditional hot rod. This pickup speaks vintage style to me.
I’ll leave you with this Hemi powered, flamed hot rod coupe with the fast-standing-still tri-five Chevy adding the firey back drop. Lot’s to see and I haven’t shown a fraction of the coverage we’ll bring for the 2011 Viva Las Vegas Car show. You better stick around!
So see ya the show Saturday! Look for the PISTON of MyRideisMe.com, then hit me up for a sticker and a beer.
Custom Car shots coming soon… and here they are: Custom Cars from 2011 Viva Las Vegas Car Show
To see what you might have missed from years gone by, here’s all Viva Las Vegas Car Show pictures and info
Viva 14 – Get Ready for Las Vegas’ Best Car Show
April 19, 2011 by pikesan · Leave a Comment
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Car Show Pre-view
- First pictures from the 2011 Viva Las Vegas Car Show – Hot Rods!
- 2nd set of pictures: 2011 Viva Las Vegas Car Show Customs
- Hit’n 3rd Gear! Pinstriping this time… 2011 Viva Car Show Pinstriping Pictures
Yea, the best! SEMA brings in maybe twice the crowd, but SEMA’s got no pinups and none of the best Rockabilly bands!
Take a look at past Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender car show pictures and then review the schedule for this year’s show, then decide for yourself… go or wait for more coverage from MyRideisMe.com… and you won’t have to wait months for it to come out in print!
The first look at VLV14 will be published on April 22, in just a few days… Until then, here’s the car show schedule and the bands playing at the car show and a little history of the show at MyRideisMe.com.
Schedule: There’s bands playing from Thursday to Sunday… Headlining the Car Show bands is Rock and Roll “Hall of Fame” member Jerry Lee Lewis!
- 12:00PM – Lustre Kings
- 2:00PM – Dynotones
- 4:00PM – Blasters
- 6:00PM – Jerry Lee Lewis
Click on any picture to see the story…
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Ladies of Viva Las Vegas 2- Pinup Models at the Car Show
Need to see more of pinup model Notorious Ang above? Here she is as Pinup of the Month: April Pinup of the Month – Notorious Ang From Viva Las Vegas Car Show
New Pinstriping Picture Gallery – MyRideisMe.com
Check out all of MyRideisMe.com Pinstriping Pictures here.
Can’t wait for the show! If you see the PISTON of MyRideisMe.com on a tall dude’s t-shirt, that’s me! Hit me up for a sticker and a beer.
For the Complete Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender Schedule click here
A Japanese Man’s Perspective: 2011 GNRS
February 1, 2011 by Enomoto-san · Leave a Comment
2011 Grand National Roadster Show – For the First Time
Ring-ring~ Friday night: A text message pops up on my beat up iphone and to my surprise, its Pikesan from MyRideisMe.com. It turns out that he’s currently in California to cover the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona for the weekend! He asks if I’m interested in coming down to the show, and without any hesitation I kindly accept the invitation. Honestly, domestic American cars are not really my thing, but I do share an equal amount of respect for automobiles of all kinds so I start packing my gear.
I’ve been to many domestic (American) car shows, but nothing to this caliber, some cars weren’t even classics, they were antiques! Lined up in front of me by the hundreds were some of the worlds most beautiful historical customs of all genres. Upon entry, my jaw just drops. Not only were some of the masterpieces displayed worth more than what some people will make in 10 years, but the quality of the work was without a doubt, world class. And, its safe to say that the majority of the cars were born, and bred in the good ol’ US of A.
Lots of historical displays accompanied these vehicles from old Coca Cola merchandise to the famous Route 66 themes. In fact, I wouldn’t doubt it if some of these people were still the original owners, or even the car had been passed down in their family for generations. That’s the truest definition of the term priceless in my opinion.
Holy shit… Twin 4.6L V8 engine (16 cylinder) Supercharged, 1000 horsepower 1927 Model T Roadster. If i lived in the 1920′s, this is what i would be driving. lol
As I slowly walked down the isles taking in all that I can, I couldn’t help but over hear some people’s conversations. There was a grandfather telling his grandson, while pointing to a certain Studebaker, telling him that this was his very first car. Other groups of people were greeting each other almost in tears, saying that it’s been 25 years since they all last met… reunited by a single automobile.
No reunions for me… I stick out like a sore thumb! Thankfully, a conspicuous small-stature black-haired Asian dude with a big camera is nothing really out of the ordinary, but passed off as a tourist taking photos of America.
The rust was awesome! Some cars had so much rust on them that I felt I needed a Tetanus shot before getting close to it. There’s a ridiculously meaningless trend in the import scene these days where people would purposely rust a hood on a Honda Civic. Perhaps they were influenced by these classics, but miserably failed to pull it off. Rat rods = function over form! This particular chopped rat rod had a brass/copper theme combined with the rust.
Another Honda fanboy trend that I’ve seen around lately are the painted firewalls. How come it looks so tasteful and original on these hot rods but look absurd on the Japanese cars? It was eye opening to see where those guys get their ideas from.
There were a handful of lowriders at the show… all of them superbly exhibiting the very best of their car culture. But what I don’t understand is the chroming of the brake rotors. I mean… this is a dead give-away that the car never gets driven, EVER. This particular lowrider had EVERYTHING chromed (which is normal in the lowrider culture) but c’mon, brakes… really?
Hmm.. what are those wires doing on the tailpipe? Why don’t you stand behind it while they turn it on and find out? It’s actually a flamethrower system! Highly illegal but highly badass. They declined my request to for a demonstration. =(
The Roth Orbitron. There’s supposedly a huge mystery behind this car, how it was lost and found, or replicated… I’m not entirely sure. Regardless, its a huge collector’s piece!
More coverage on the Grand National Roadster show on the way at MyRideisMe.com!
