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Car Shows

photos and story by Steve Wingate

November 14th, 2004-- I'll always remember it as the day I did my first car show shoot for Modern Muscle.  Greg is a tough act to follow when it comes to capturing great material for Muscle Car Calendar and Modern Muscle, so I was pretty nervous about it. 

So, you can imagine my dismay when I walked into the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center and found all those cars, but with people crawling all over them... they were letting them sit in them, touch them, even breathe on them.  Oh no!  It was going to be impossible to get decent shots with all these people around.  Geez!  Maybe, just maybe the people that made their way into the pictures would be good looking women, but with my luck there wouldn't be anything but big fat guys with hair in their ears to block my shots.

It also didn't help that BOTH of my kids were with me.  I mean, my son Isaac is great because he's a car guy too, but my daughter Virginia, who will be thirteen in a few months, also went.  For reasons I can't begin to understand, Virginia doesn't like anything.  Every car we looked at was "gay" in her not-so-humble opinion.  Her only interest in cars is that she'll be old enough to drive in four years, and the only cars she likes are ones we could never afford or ones that we would never allow to sit in our driveway.

Thankfully, I figured out how to tune her commentary completely out after my first few shots.  I hope you all like the shots!

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Dodge Viper	Chrysler 300 Hemi	Dodge Magnum	Dodge Tomahawk	Chrysler Hemi 300 Concept
Dodge Ram SRT10	Ford GT	Mustang GT concept	Mustang GTR concept	1973 Mustang Convertible
#24 Jeff Gordon	2005 Corvette	2005 Corvette	1975 Corvette	1991 Corvette
C3 Corvette	Chevy Bel Air concept	2005 Cadillac XLR	2005 Pontiac GTO	1965 Corvette 396
1967 Corvette 427	1966 Mustang GT	1967 Mustang	1968 Mustang GT "Cali Special"	1969 Mach One
1970 Boss 302	72 Mustang Vert	72 Mach One

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