Gunnison, CO Car Show and Cruise
 

We left Oklahoma City Thursday night at 11:00pm after a ten hour shift at work..
Drove west 4 hrs. into Amarillo and then headed northwest..
We pulled into Gunnison around 1:00 Friday afternoon..
Beautiful, sunny, cool day.. Highs around 75 degrees..
Drove straight to the cabin to take a much needed nap..
Got up in time to drive to the Cruise-In in downtown Gunnison at 5:00pm
where they close off 4 blocks of Main St. and park the cars 4 rows wide..
They had a band, food vendors, and about 150 cars.. Lasted until ~9:00pm..

Then Saturday morning we woke early to get the car washed and make it to the car show at 8:30.. (lasted until 4:00)
There were 367 registered vehicles,,
and my class was "Post 70's Modified" (that covers a lot of cars..)
They were serving breakfast, had a band, and some sweet looking vehicles..

This is a fairly prestigious show, being one of only 25 in the nation that gives out the "Lee Iacocca" award..
This was the most organized car show I have been to..
They group the vehicles by similar class..
and the vehicles were voted on by car show registrants..

Here are pics of some of the vehicles..
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Then on Sunday morning we met to do a "caravan" of about 125 cars to
drive the 28 miles to Crested Butte, CO where they had closed off 4 blocks of
their main st. to allow us to park 3 rows of cars and go eat breakfast..
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It was a great weekend, beautiful weather, beautiful cars, beautiful scenery..
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oh yeah, btw, I won the "BEST Post 70's Modified" award..
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Very nice and congratulations! You come from OK to go to a car show and I won't even travel from Denver to Gunnison. Heck of a long drive. Oh yeah, and I didn't know about it so that kind of makes it hard to make it too.

A whole lot of Corvettes lined up there. Were there a whole line of Mustangs? Next year will be a whole line of Camaros with few Challengers in between. I like it that way. I'll have to see if I can make it next year.

Yup, there was 2 lines of Mustangs, and I was parked right in the middle
of one of the lines.. ( I went where I was told to go.)

Now that's funny. Reminds me of when I went to a Camaro unveiling and they asked if I would park my car on the show side where people were bringing their Camaros. People were all butt hurt, like I did it myself, until I told them that I was asked to pull it over there.