The American Performance Car Show was alright. And by that I mean everything about this car show was “All Right” – the weather was right, the cars were right, the music was right, the food was right. Well you get the picture.

This car show also set a record for the partnership of DAPA and Sewell doing a car show together, 104 cars were registered and hundreds of people came by to see the cars, listen to the music, and just enjoy the day.

The American Performance Car Show was a bit of a departure from what DAPA and Sewell have done the past couple of years. It was opened up to all brands of American performance cars which of course allowed a larger number of local car clubs to participate. Consequently, higher registration equaled a larger donation to our charity, the American Cancer Society.

Once again, we need to give a Huge Thank You to the staff of Sewell for their efforts and generosity in putting this show together and serving up a great lunch. We would also like to thank Jeff and Lee from Gasoline Alley Car Shows for their efforts in judging 104 cars in a timely manner which allowed us to stay on schedule and have the awards presentation right on time. Maybe it’s just me, but during the awards presentation the word Mopar seemed to come up way to often… just means us Pontiac owners need to try a bit harder next time.

Autorama Dallas
February 15-17, 2009

The Autorama Car Shows are a series of events at major cities across the country.  Dallas often appears on the schedule the second weekend in February – Valentine’s Day weekend.  This year, Saturday, usually the biggest day of the three day show… was Valentine’s Day.

This dilemma weighs heavily on a man’s mind when he needs to decide if he is going to enter his Pontiac in the Autorama DAPA display; or spend the weekend with his Wife/Significant Other.  Hmm, the wife/S.O., or the other girl in his life, his Pontiac?

But wait! This is not a problem for half of our DAPA displayers.  Their women folk came out to Autorama on Valentine’s Day to spend it with their family members, their husband and their Pontiac!  Brenda and Frank Moren, Colleen and John Darling, Judy and Tommy Rivers, Gloria and Ken Davis, and I think Ellen was there with Shawn Pergande; all spent the day together and appeared to have a wonderful time.  I’m fairly sure the remaining DAPA displayers took off early enough to take their ladies out for the evening.

This appeared to be the case for many of the attendees too.  There was a great crowd in attendance throughout the day on Saturday; right up until about 4:00pm when the Market Hall mysteriously began to thin out – remember the show continues ‘til 10:00pm on Saturday.  Call it a compromise: he gets the day to play with car toys; she gets the evening to toy with romance.  Ahh, “give and take”, the glue of marriage.

OK, reality check, here are the Autorama 2009 results of the DAPA display:

Congratulations to All!  And the rest of you remember, DAPA tries to include different Pontiacs in our display each year at Autorama, so you have a whole year to prepare.

Saturday, October 18, 2008, the day of the B-O-P Car Show hosted by the Dallas Area Pontiac Association, and sponsored by Sewell. Sure, it’s billed as a Buick, Olds, Pontiac car show… but is in fact a Buick, Olds, Pontiac, Pontiac, Pontiac car show since once again Pontiacs ruled the show field! We also had several other flavors of GM vehicles show up, Cadillac and GMC = invited; Chevrolet, maybe not invited but every bit helps towards the charity.

The weather was good as the cars rolled into position in the morning. The more the cars filled the lot, the better the weather was looking. By mid day, we were at 60 cars, blue skies and sunny. Now it’s time for the barbeque lunch Sewell graciously throws in to feed the car worshipping masses. It’s all good – food, people, cars, music, weather. Next it’s awards time and 50 were handed out to the top cars as judged by the participants

By end of day, DAPA and Sewell raised $1,600.00 to benefit the American Cancer Society. And would you believe it, a Cadillac won the Best of Show award. It was a good day all around.

Thank you Sewell once again for your generosity and making the B-O-P Car Show 2008 a great success.

It’s late September and you know what that means: The Tigers Prowl in Grapevine

And so did a whole lot of other Pontiacs. Saturday, September 27th, 2008 was the 11th Annual Tiger Prowl Car Show hosted by the GTO Association of North Texas and sponsored by Sewell. This is an all Pontiac Car Show that has been held at the Bass Pro Shops parking lot for the past few years.

We couldn’t ask for a more beautiful day, a cool morning gave way to a bright sunny day that made those Pontiacs sparkle. The Tiger Prowl show field consisted of just over 60 Pontiacs , primarily consisting of Pontiac muscle: GTOs and TransAms. A nice variety of other Pontiacs were also represented from the 30’s right up to the hot new G8. We are proud to say the Dallas Area Pontiac Association was there in force, with 17 cars entered in the event.

The Tiger Prowl is a benefit car show with proceeds benefiting The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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