Good Guys, Good Times!

This past weekend was the 12th annual Good Guys PPG Nationals in Columbus, OH! How lucky are we that each year we get to go to the premier car show in the country and it's in our back yard? Shawn gets SO excited for this. He claims it's his favorite three days of the entire year. People from all over drive (or trailer) their cars to our city. Hot Rods everywhere! Shea loves to keep her eye out for any that are remotely pink. This was Will's first year and he was mesmerized by the poles that had lights or speakers on them. We also caught him checking out the shinny chrome and a blond once! Such a guy already.

Friday Shawn couldn't get off of work, this is still a very sore subject for him. However, the kids and I met him, we had dinner at our favorite Noodles & Co., then headed to the official hotel of the Good Guys. Wow, there are some amazing cars in this hotel lot. Famous folks too!

Will and Shawn walking around. Notice where Will is looking!

Shea wanted to find a pink car to get her photo taken by. We had passed a couple on the road and she'd yell when she saw one. Keep in mind yelling in an enclosed truck cab! We found one...

Saturday we headed to the Ohio State fairgrounds where we'd meet up with Shawn's parents and his brother, Justin. For once the weather people were correct (why did it have to happen now???) and it poured down rain most of the day. They toured the covered barns and we went through the big coliseum where the vendors are set up. Shea received so much stuff! This guy from Classic Instruments walked up to us and said if she smiled he'd give her a t-shirt. She smiled big! It was a nice shirt too. Then a lady gave her a pink tire necklace, Grandma and Grandpa bought her a pink Good Guys t-shirt. Plus she won or was given the following: pink dice for her jeep, a can koosie, stickers, key chain that is a compass, and ink pens. Just for being cute! Where can I sign up for that? While Will did receive merchandise, except for a t-shirt, he was made-over by perfect strangers too. Those two are like traveling with the paparazzi!

Back to the cars... Sunday the weather was perfect and we had a lot of ground to cover. We briefly met up with our friends from Indianapolis, Tom and Debbie. It was fun getting to chat with them, but not long enough. Hopefully this year we'll see them again. We do say this every year but this year it will happen!

Me while chatting with Debbie.

While cruising the grounds we always keep our eyes out for any restored 1964 Chevelle Malibu convertables, since that is the hot rod we own. We found a beautiful one this year out of Indiana. Before I show you that picture, here is our Chevelle when we went to pick it up and bring it home. Yes, that is the gas tank laying on the ground!!!!

Here is a restored 1964 Chevelle: Gorgeous!!!

Seeing this car rejuvenated us to work on ours more often. Poor Shawn just hasn't had any spare time to devote to it. We'll get it going!! I am also a huge corvette fan. I think the day we sold ours is one of the saddest days for me. I keep saying, someday we'll own another one. I saw one this year that I fell in love with and forgot to get a photo of it before we left yesterday. Bobby Alloway (a famous designer out of Tennessee) had done one for his wife. Lucky girl! It was nice and it did win an award.

Here is the mack-daddy of them all that is awarded. At this event, the Street Rod and Street Machine of the year are picked. Here is the 2009 Street Machine of the year:

It was hard to get good photos of it any time you saw it, it drew a crowd to say the least. The guys who build it were young, like us! That was fun to see. We had seen this in the hotel lot on Friday and thought wow, nice car. Uh, ya to say the least now. All in all, despite the rain, it was a great show. Shawn is already looking forward to next year!