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Jan 8, 2008 - In Anticipation of Car Show Season

It's a beautiful day here in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The sun shines through the leaf-less trees and the air temperature makes you think that spring is just around the corner. People driving their convertibles around with the tops down only helps complete the image.

But reality sets in and you remember that it's only the first week in January...winter has yet to really start. We're only three and a half weeks away from Punxsutawney Phil's annual weather prognostication and we haven't even pulled out the shovels yet.

All of this anticipation makes us even more anxious for the start of the car show season. The world's automakers are preparing to show their new wares in Detroit but we are looking for the cars that some individual has made their own. Car shows in places like Carlisle and Charlotte, Englishtown and Daytona, Hershey and Scottsdale...and many other towns and cities around North America.

These cars demonstrate the personality of the builder. Watching shows on TV where they custom build six- and seven-figure cars is great...but seeing what one person (and probably a spouse and some kids) can do to a Model A or a '55 Chevy or a Willys coupe or even a Honda Civic is something else entirely. The talents in these people are right there on display with paint so deep you can almost dive into it or engines so powerful that tires can just melt away with the press of the accelerator. These are show cars! And these are car shows!

Now if we could just get the weather to cooperate. Spring Charlotte is the first Eastwood car show of the year. That show starts March 31. That's 82 days away!!! C'mon...spring can't get here fast enough!

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