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got damn this has been an epic page!!! Awesome posts Rue, Vince and Nismo!!! Tuttle, you owe me more muscle cars.
I have not been in this place for a while, darned job. But of course, and for a change, I'll post spots that I found very very recently!!!
Aguascalientes (in english you could translate it as "hotwaters") is a city I just recently visited thanks in part to some work that popped up there for the magazine, I went to photograph a stew of awesome muscle cars and hot rods and to meet a long-time friend who lives over there.
The city turned out to be an amazing place for car spotting too. All of this next post was found just wandering trough the city behind the owners of the cars as they led us to possible locations for the shoots. I didnt go spotting, this was all found just... like that.
I first found this bling-blong Chevy S10 with the Xtreme in a gas station in Irapuato, a long way to Aguascalientes still. Thanks Joey for clarifying that out.
Then on the road, the most intresting car I found was this... it was sad:
As the road went on, we found this:
and almost entering the city, this joke, which was even better because we were driving a 1995 Chrysler voyager. Jokes of painting it pink and putting stupid wheels on it haunted us troughout the entire trip:
In the outskirts of the city this cute VW Type 181 said hi from an intersection:
finally in Aguascalientes, we checked into the hotel, unloaded the stuff and went to get some breakfast. Walking out of the lobby, this greets us:
awesome Cal-Look-like mid 60s Bug with full chrome wheels and a heavy drop. Sorry for the horrible pictures, camera in automode will do that:
On the way to breakfast, out of the window I shoot this weird spectrapearlflop pink Nissan Hikari (dunno what's it called in other places, in here it was a Hikari) with Fondmetals:
And this EK hatch, very very rare to find a hatchback EK in Mexico, it was never offered in such a body style and is very coveted.
wandering around also yielded this Ford Maverick with undescribable wheels but in ok shape:
Then, we are taken by the local clubs to the old train station, which is now a museum of sorts, and where we are supposed to meet other cars and the main reason I went on this trip: an awesome rat rod:
And yeah, they are all there, but also in that place, I find these two:
First, this awesome little Datsun pick up in sad shape with stripe job and cool mag wheels:
And then, this even better very early model Renault 4 passenger wagon!!! check out how badly repaired this thing is... it's all rust! Also missing some glass and trim, but heck are these rare. I dont remember the last time I saw such an early model of one of these. I would have loved to make it justice but we had to move on to another location.
Such a location were the old maintenance shops of the old train station, that have been abandoned for 50-odd years and were the perfect location for the shoot. But this place is also used by the local police department as an impounding storage parking lot. In here have ended many cars that have been confiscated to the drug dealers, and of course there was something striking:
A picture of one of the local cars belonging to one of the clubs, it looked neat from that angle so oh snap:
We spent all day there and when we were finally over we headed downtown to have dinner and such. On the way, this blew by in an intersection, it looked way wicked that low and with the later-model cirrus grille grafted in, and it's BOV was loud as heck... I'd later discover it to be one of the cars belonging to a local club, but I did not have the time to do even a small photoshoot of it.
almost at the same time this cool lowered VW Bug with Empi Spyder knock-offs drives by, and of course I'm obligued:
And that was it for the first day. I missed shots of an awesome Datsun 510 wagon, an incredible brown 1964 Impala SS lowrider with full hydralic action and I dont even remember how many more cars.
Next day in the morning, a guy from the local clubs goes to pick up the other photog that went to the trip in this...
He went with the local ricers to shoot stuff out and I met later with the muscle car owners. In the way, I caught this neat black Maverick with Cragar mags:
this awesome awesome awesome and mean looking 3-series BMW with a bad-ass drop and humongous M6 wheels on staggered tires, unreal stance:
The worse picture in the world of an in-progress Montecarlo lowrider:
a destroyed Seat Leon Cupra, coincidentially one of the cars that had been in the previous day's meeting:
a riced-out Golf that belonged to one of the local clubs (that's their sticker in the rear window) which I pressume was headed towards the other photoshoot:
Yet another decent Maverick with fake Cragars:
And more rice:
Then, at one of the locations, while we were shooting this:
precisely at the back of the picture taker sat these:
First, an amazing 1948 Buick Sedanete two-door that seemed to be ready to hop in and drive away, but alas, was pretty neglected by now:
At it's side sat a 1954 Ford 4-door in pretty good shape too:
And in front of them, a neat 1958 Cadillac that was pretty tattered, it was the worse of the bunch.
If you look hard you can see the pink Challenger we're shooting and a cool gold 1971 Chevelle, which later looked like this:
While shooting such car, some stuff passes by, like this early Datsun Bluebird with full family load:
And this of course deserved a snap!!!
so, we finish off and go pick up the other photog, on the way there we also find this awesome old fire truck in the local station... I think it was an International:
Then this pretty damn nice Renault 12 in great shape:
And the stark contrast, a rough and riced Datsun:
We arrive at the ricefest but the other photographer is not done yet. I go out and help him a tad:
By the time we finish rain comes and I snap this on the way to get some food, a really really cool VW Brasilia with graff decoration... check out the door:
And the last spot of the trip, an awesome street rodded Ford F100 truck with huge wheels, a severe drop and shaved everything, along with other stuff, down by the showers.
Aaaaaaaand there goes. So yeah, I went on a roadtrip and it was pin-neat, and I'm bound to get back there in a couple months. Will show you of course (:
I have not been in this place for a while, darned job. But of course, and for a change, I'll post spots that I found very very recently!!!
Aguascalientes (in english you could translate it as "hotwaters") is a city I just recently visited thanks in part to some work that popped up there for the magazine, I went to photograph a stew of awesome muscle cars and hot rods and to meet a long-time friend who lives over there.
The city turned out to be an amazing place for car spotting too. All of this next post was found just wandering trough the city behind the owners of the cars as they led us to possible locations for the shoots. I didnt go spotting, this was all found just... like that.
I first found this bling-blong Chevy S10 with the Xtreme in a gas station in Irapuato, a long way to Aguascalientes still. Thanks Joey for clarifying that out.
Then on the road, the most intresting car I found was this... it was sad:
As the road went on, we found this:
and almost entering the city, this joke, which was even better because we were driving a 1995 Chrysler voyager. Jokes of painting it pink and putting stupid wheels on it haunted us troughout the entire trip:
In the outskirts of the city this cute VW Type 181 said hi from an intersection:
finally in Aguascalientes, we checked into the hotel, unloaded the stuff and went to get some breakfast. Walking out of the lobby, this greets us:
awesome Cal-Look-like mid 60s Bug with full chrome wheels and a heavy drop. Sorry for the horrible pictures, camera in automode will do that:
On the way to breakfast, out of the window I shoot this weird spectrapearlflop pink Nissan Hikari (dunno what's it called in other places, in here it was a Hikari) with Fondmetals:
And this EK hatch, very very rare to find a hatchback EK in Mexico, it was never offered in such a body style and is very coveted.
wandering around also yielded this Ford Maverick with undescribable wheels but in ok shape:
Then, we are taken by the local clubs to the old train station, which is now a museum of sorts, and where we are supposed to meet other cars and the main reason I went on this trip: an awesome rat rod:
And yeah, they are all there, but also in that place, I find these two:
First, this awesome little Datsun pick up in sad shape with stripe job and cool mag wheels:
And then, this even better very early model Renault 4 passenger wagon!!! check out how badly repaired this thing is... it's all rust! Also missing some glass and trim, but heck are these rare. I dont remember the last time I saw such an early model of one of these. I would have loved to make it justice but we had to move on to another location.
Such a location were the old maintenance shops of the old train station, that have been abandoned for 50-odd years and were the perfect location for the shoot. But this place is also used by the local police department as an impounding storage parking lot. In here have ended many cars that have been confiscated to the drug dealers, and of course there was something striking:
A picture of one of the local cars belonging to one of the clubs, it looked neat from that angle so oh snap:
We spent all day there and when we were finally over we headed downtown to have dinner and such. On the way, this blew by in an intersection, it looked way wicked that low and with the later-model cirrus grille grafted in, and it's BOV was loud as heck... I'd later discover it to be one of the cars belonging to a local club, but I did not have the time to do even a small photoshoot of it.
almost at the same time this cool lowered VW Bug with Empi Spyder knock-offs drives by, and of course I'm obligued:
And that was it for the first day. I missed shots of an awesome Datsun 510 wagon, an incredible brown 1964 Impala SS lowrider with full hydralic action and I dont even remember how many more cars.
Next day in the morning, a guy from the local clubs goes to pick up the other photog that went to the trip in this...
He went with the local ricers to shoot stuff out and I met later with the muscle car owners. In the way, I caught this neat black Maverick with Cragar mags:
this awesome awesome awesome and mean looking 3-series BMW with a bad-ass drop and humongous M6 wheels on staggered tires, unreal stance:
The worse picture in the world of an in-progress Montecarlo lowrider:
a destroyed Seat Leon Cupra, coincidentially one of the cars that had been in the previous day's meeting:
a riced-out Golf that belonged to one of the local clubs (that's their sticker in the rear window) which I pressume was headed towards the other photoshoot:
Yet another decent Maverick with fake Cragars:
And more rice:
Then, at one of the locations, while we were shooting this:
precisely at the back of the picture taker sat these:
First, an amazing 1948 Buick Sedanete two-door that seemed to be ready to hop in and drive away, but alas, was pretty neglected by now:
At it's side sat a 1954 Ford 4-door in pretty good shape too:
And in front of them, a neat 1958 Cadillac that was pretty tattered, it was the worse of the bunch.
If you look hard you can see the pink Challenger we're shooting and a cool gold 1971 Chevelle, which later looked like this:
While shooting such car, some stuff passes by, like this early Datsun Bluebird with full family load:
And this of course deserved a snap!!!
so, we finish off and go pick up the other photog, on the way there we also find this awesome old fire truck in the local station... I think it was an International:
Then this pretty damn nice Renault 12 in great shape:
And the stark contrast, a rough and riced Datsun:
We arrive at the ricefest but the other photographer is not done yet. I go out and help him a tad:
By the time we finish rain comes and I snap this on the way to get some food, a really really cool VW Brasilia with graff decoration... check out the door:
And the last spot of the trip, an awesome street rodded Ford F100 truck with huge wheels, a severe drop and shaved everything, along with other stuff, down by the showers.
Aaaaaaaand there goes. So yeah, I went on a roadtrip and it was pin-neat, and I'm bound to get back there in a couple months. Will show you of course (:
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It sounded sick though! 
. The Goodguys Rod & Custom Show ends today as well, hence all the classics on the freeway. Between the Denver Auto Show, Automezzi, Concours & an Accord tuner BBQ (both next Sunday, pics to come), and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb I'm spending around $100 on car events, so I skipped Goodguys this year.
