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Cruisin’ Morro Bay Car Show started with two friends and a running conversation over coffee in 1993. Three decades later, it draws 500-plus entrants a year, gets covered by Car Craft Magazine, and still features founder Stephen Carnes’ own 1964 Corvette Stingray Roadster among the entries. Read on for how a small-town idea turned into one of California’s enduring classic car gatherings.
Picture a single parking lot holding a Yenko Camaro, a GTO Judge, a Smokey and the Bandit tribute Trans Am, and well over a hundred more genuine muscle cars and hot rods, all in one afternoon. That’s the Street Machine Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota — one of the biggest gatherings of its kind in the country. With a list of cars this long, the challenge isn’t finding something worth stopping for, it’s knowing where to look first. Watch the full walkthrough.
Tom Bright had owned this Tor Red 1970 Plymouth GTX for exactly three weeks when he brought it to the 26th Annual Belvidere MOPAR Happening in Illinois, and strangers were already giving him thumbs up before he had finished parking. It carries the 440 Six Barrel and a four-speed, a combination far scarcer than most of the people walking past it realized. The GTX was Plymouth’s gentleman’s muscle car, positioned above the Road Runner. Read on for what makes this specific configuration so hard to find.
This 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S has just 5,804 original miles — and after two careful owners spanning nearly six decades, this was its first car show ever. Owner Ron George’s dad got him and his brother into Mopars as kids, and this unrestored survivor even has commenters debating a muffler note that later model years reportedly lost. Watch to see what nearly six decades of restraint actually looks like.