Annual Seal Beach Car Show April 25th 2015

Did You Know? - The Annual Classic Car Show is the showcase event for the Seal Beach Chamber, which enables them to hold the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, the Summer Concert Series, the Annual Health & Fitness Expo and many other great community events.

Did You Know? - Pin striping (pinstriping) is the application of a very thin line of paint or other material called a pin stripe, and is generally used for decoration. Freehand pin stripers use a specialty brush known as a pinstriping brush. Fine lines in textiles are also called pin stripes.
Automotive, bike shops, and do-it-yourself car and motorcycle mechanics use paint pin striping to create their own custom look on the automotive bodies and parts.

Did You Know? - The Chrysler 300 "letter series" are high-performance luxury cars that were built by the Chrysler Corporation in the U.S. from 1955 to 1965. After the initial year, which was named 300-C, the 1956 cars were designated 300B. Successive model years given the next letter of the alphabet as a suffix (skipping "i"), reaching the 300L by 1965, after which the model was dropped.

The 300 "letter series" cars were among the vehicles that focused on performance built by domestic U.S. manufacturers after World War II, and thus can be considered one of the muscle car's ancestors, though full-sized and more expensive.

The automaker began using the 300 designations again for performance-luxury sedans, using the 300M nameplate from 1999 to 2004, and expanding the 300 series with a new V8-powered 300C, the top model of a relaunched Chrysler 300 line, a new rear-wheel drive car launched in 2004 for the 2005 model year. Unlike the first "letter series" series, the successive variants do not feature standard engines producing at least 300 hp (220 kW), except for Chrysler's current top-line 300C models.

Did You Know? - Chevrolet began offering a newly developed 572-cubic-inch (9.4 L) in 1998. This is a 620 hp (462 kW) / 650 lb·ft (881 N·m) version, designated ZZ620/620 Deluxe, capable of running on 92 octane pump gasoline for street applications.

Another version of the same engine is available as a high compression variant, codenamed ZZ572/720R Deluxe, generating a minimum of 720 hp on high-octane i.e. race-gas.

Did You Know? - These are water bags with a burlap covering that you would "Saturate before using" and hang where wind or evaporation could cool the water inside. They were often hung on car radiators in the old days so that the wind passing over them could cool the your drinking water as you drove.

Desert water bags were once a common sight on the highways of the American Southwest. Designed to keep water cool under hot conditions, desert water bags were available at service stations and general stores, where they could be filled with water and hung on the outside of the vehicle to keep cool. Desert water bags fell out of favor in the 1950s, but they are still made in limited quantities, and vintage desert water bags are valued by some as antiques.