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2020 Swap Meets

2020 Swap Meets

Jan 26 — Ridge­field, WA: NWDRA Hi-Per­­for­­mance Swap Meet Feb 8–9 — Kent, WA: Pacif­ic Race­ways 1st Annu­al All Motor­sports Swap Meet Feb 14–15 — Salem, OR: Mild to Wild Auto­mo­tive Swap Meet Feb 15–16 — Puyallup, WA: Ear­ly Bird Swap Meet Mar 14 — Asto­ria, OR: Asto­ria Swap Meet Mar 14–15 — Puyallup, WA: Almost Spring Swap Meet & Car Show Apr 2–4 — Port­land, OR: PIR Auto Swap Meet Apr 3–5 — Port­land, OR: Port­land Auto Swap Meet…

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Seattle Auto Show

Seattle Auto Show

SEATTLE AUTO SHOW presents the 2014 cars and more   The annu­al Seat­tle Auto Show cel­e­brates 90 years of pre­sent­ing the auto indus­try’s newest mod­els for 2014. Over 500 cars, trucks, vans, SUV’s, crossovers, exotics and super­cars will be dis­played Octo­ber 16–20 at Seat­tle’s Cen­tu­ryLink Events Cen­ter.   The Seat­tle Auto Show,  pre­sent­ed by State Farm and spon­sored by AutoTrader.com, BECU and the Seat­tle Times, is gear­ing up for its biggest show in years.   “We’ve added twen­ty per­cent more space and…

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Griots-Lauda ‑Ferrari-October 2013

Griots-Lauda ‑Ferrari-October 2013

Res­cu­ing, restor­ing and shar­ing a leg­endary race car Here are two extreme­ly rare oppor­tu­ni­ties to see two of the most suc­cess­ful cars of the mid-sev­en­ties For­mu­la One sea­sons.   (See also about the movie “RUSH” , a film review, and back­ground about Niki Lau­da HERE)   If you have not vis­it­ed the event cen­ter show­room at Gri­ots Garage in Taco­ma before, you’ll want to put it on your “to do” list soon. At least you’ll want to vis­it the upcom­ing Seattle…

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Comments by Cam

Comments by Cam

Com­ments from Cana­da by Cam       Just for the fun of it: Edi­tor’s Note:  It is always fun to read what oth­ers are say­ing about shows worth par­tic­i­pat­ing in, and more cer­tain­ly from our Cana­di­an friend, Cam Hutchins. Cam is a pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er, auto writer, and tru­ly a “car nut”. You’ll find more about Cam and his activ­i­ties at Car Nut   From Cam’s lat­est epis­tle, with per­mis­sion of course:   “The big Lan­g­ley (BC) show hap­pens this week­end with…

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Featured Events in September

Featured Events in September

Fea­tured Shows in Sep­tem­ber include the Lux­u­ry & Super­car Week­end with the Shaugh­nessy Con­cours d’Elegance on Sept 7–8 in Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, and the 11th Annu­al Kirk­land Con­cours d’Elegance held on Sun­day, Sept. 8 at the LeMay Muse­um in Taco­ma, WA. (See below for Kirk­land sto­ry)     On Sep­tem­ber 7–8, over  $100 mil­lion dol­lars of lux­u­ry and high-end auto­mo­biles will roll into Van­Dusen Botan­i­cal Gar­den for British Columbi­a’s extrav­a­gan­za event, the LUXURY & SUPERCAR WEEKEND which includes Shaugh­nessy Concours…

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September Events

September Events

Sep­tem­ber is anoth­er busy month of events includ­ing at least one auc­tion, many swap meets, two con­cours and many car shows through­out the North­west and west­ern Cana­da. The week­end of Sept 6–8 includes the ever pop­u­lar Wheels ‘N’ Waves (5–7) at down­town Sea­side, OR plus your choice of two events over the 7th and 8th — the 30th Rod Run to the End of the World with 800 cars at the tip of Wash­ing­ton’s longest penin­su­la, at  Ocean Park, WA.…

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