(Photos by: Chad Reynolds) – We’re back with more photos from the 2017 LA Roadster Show! This event is cool because it has legacy. For 53 years the LA Roadsters Club has been putting on this shin dig and for as long as we can remember it has been held at the famed Pomona Fairplex. Don’t let the name fool you, it is not JUST roadsters and this gallery shows off that fact. You’ll find classic trucks, muscle cars, street rods, and even some oddballs thrown in for good measure through the show.
Shockingly, there was nice weather for the event in Southern California. Yes, we’re being smart asses. It is SoCal, of course there was great weather for the event to be held in. People travel from all over the country with their cars to be a part of this thing and we always love seeing out of state license plates on cool hot rods at the Fairplex. For 2017 the LA Roadsters club decided to turn over the event management job to a professional event company. While we had no issues with the show before, it had to have been a ton of work for a club with about 28 members.
Enjoy this look at the show!
Click below to expand ’em and see cool iron from the 2017 LA Roadster Show
As the old timers croak the hobby is dying and this years LARS & Swap is a perfect Bad Example of Why. Ridiculous prices for everything from parking to food & bev and poorly managed overall. Who could afford (and why) to bring a family there for a day out ?
Fortunately, there is so much fantastic car activity nearby you don’t really need the ‘show’ at the Fairplex at all. I’ll be back down to LA next year for the hot rod friends private parties, the shop open houses a few cruises to interesting destinations – (not some shit fair parking lot) and the general So Cal hot rod ambience. There is plenty to do in SoCal car-related (Petersen & Nethrcut to mention two). Who needs Pomona ? I know the vendors. They all have 800 # and internet…
When I drive back North, I’ll lift a middle finger when driving through and past Pomona to those old worn out antiques – the LA Roadsters – you old fools have shit where you eat for the last time with me. Too Bad. You greedy dinosaurs have made nothing but money for far too many years on that show.
LAR If you’re too old and tired to do it right, close the thing down and just buy a cemetary plot and get in it.