{"id":25021,"date":"2018-03-24T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25021"},"modified":"2018-03-24T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:00:27","slug":"california-car-shows-aging-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-car-shows-aging-well\/","title":{"rendered":"California Car Shows Aging Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tomlong.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians are in love with their cars and with good reason. Most of the state offers weather that&#8217;s good to cars, relatively speaking. With rarely any snow and resultant salty roads, cars fair much better and can last seemingly forever. Also, you can&#8217;t ignore the fact that residents spend more time behind the wheel than in any other state, and for those hard on their luck the car may even become the roof over one&#8217;s head at night.<\/p>\n<p>Car shows are a passion that goes well with loving cars &#8212; and some people dedicate a portion of their lives to organizing these events. Pictured is Tom Long, a Southern Californian who&#8217;s produced the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-beachcruiser.html\">Beachcruiser Meet<\/a> for nearly 20 years in Huntington Beach. When he started the event he was steady on his feet and didn&#8217;t need a cane. He exemplifies the people (mostly guys) who lovingly organize car shows that\u00a0bring so much joy to others!<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/april-car-festivals.html\">April California Car Shows<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>We don&#8217;t claim to be the experts or ultimate source on April car shows in California, but we know what we love. Here are several:<\/p>\n<p>LA JOLLA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/concours-car-shows.html\"> La Jolla Concours D&#8217;elegance<\/a> April 6-8, 2018<\/p>\n<p>BUENA PARK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/buena-park-fabulous-fords.html\">Fabulous Fords Forever<\/a>\u00a0April 15<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-mille-miglia.html\">California Mille&#8217;s Salute<\/a> April 15-19<\/p>\n<p>REDDING: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/redding-kool-april-nites.html\">Kool April Nites Car Show<\/a> April 21-29<\/p>\n<p>PASADENA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/pasadena-ferrari-show.html\">Concorso Ferrari<\/a> April 22<\/p>\n<p>HALF MOON BAY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/half-moon-bay-pacific-coast-dream-machines.html\">Pacific Coast Dream Machines<\/a> April 29<\/p>\n<h2>Specialty Car Shows<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some luxury <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/concours-car-shows.html\">Concours Car Shows<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a wood&#8217; fan? Check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/california-woodie-car-shows.html\">woodie car shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you love the car culture in film? Don&#8217;t miss two great American Graffiti car festivals in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-american-graffiti.html\">Petaluma<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/modesto-american-graffiti.html\">Modesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/san-bernardino-route66-carshow.html\">Rendezvous Back to Route 66<\/a> in San Bernardino. It&#8217;s classic California!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians are in love with their cars and with good reason. Most of the state offers weather that&#8217;s good to cars, relatively speaking. With rarely any snow and resultant salty roads, cars fair much better and can last seemingly forever. Also, you can&#8217;t ignore the fact that residents spend more time behind the wheel than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25022,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions\/25022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}