Another Lucky Winner!

As part of the CT's Finest show, Cruisin' Photography was commissioned to shoot a one-of-a-kind Digital Auto Art image as the main raffle prize. The lucky winners were Peter and Kathy Pires. After we shot the images of their Chrysler Crossfire, Peter and Kathy gave some input about backgrounds and left the rest to me. The finished item was delivered to them at the DIIR Summer Dreamz cruise night on September 7th. Congrats Peter and Kathy and enjoy the framed 20 x 30 print!

CT's Finest Auto Club, First Annual Car Show, August 29th, 2010

Sunday August 29th, saw us at CT's Finest Auto Club First Annual Car Show at the Porter & Chester site in Enfield. On a blisteringly hot day, almost 200 cars and bikes turned out for the event. Many of Connecticut's car clubs had representatives at the show, including Dreamz II Reality (DIIR), Street Terminators, Game Over, High Life Creationz, and Frontline Auto Club. Cruisin' would like to give a big thank you to the guys from DIIR for housing Kathy and me under their complex of gazebos, which offered some welcome shade from the hot August sunshine.

Some fabulous cars and bikes were in attendance, with one of the standouts being Lew Lombardo’s blown Camaro convertible. What a beautiful car it is.

Plenty of awards were up for grabs at the end of the day. DIIR was prominent at awards time. They took the ‘Best Club' trophy, Gary Lambert took 'Best Bike' with his superb Suzuki Hayabusa, John Crowley took 'Best Lexus', Jeff Alexander was awarded 'Best Scion', Pedro took 'Best Nissan' and Jerry took 'Best Chopper'. The club also took a host of second and third places as well. The awards were not the sole property of DIIR as the team from Game Over also featured highly. CT's Finest Auto Club laid on a great event. Let's hope they choose a cooler day for it next year!

Bristol Auto Club, August 28th, 2010

After watching the awesome sight of the hot-air balloons departing, Kathy and I loaded up the car and made a flying (no pun intended) visit to the Bristol Auto Club cruise. In May 2008, the Bristol cruise was one of the first USA cruises that I attended. Before coming out to the States, from England, on that particular trip to visit Kathy, I had been trading e-mails with Bristol Auto Club member Dave Champagne to gather some information about the cruise (and to warn him that a limey was going to be in attendance!). We met up at the cruise and had a great time. Sadly our schedules have meant that we’ve never had the chance to meet up again in person, until this particular evening. Kathy and I grabbed a few frames in the falling light and had a very sociable hour or so talking with Dave and his wife Gwen. It was an enjoyable end to a good day out.