Wednesday, 10/25/2023

Good Morning,

Happy Halloween!  Loads of trunk-or-treating car shows await to satiate all of your sweet tooths!  (Grammatically correct?  Eh, whatever.)

All the news I've curated for you this week and the cool car happenings are linked below.  Get out and enjoy!

Speaking of cool car happenings.  I swung by the

Lions Automobilia Museum

last week.  Executive Director, Lana Chrisman gave me a tour.  Wow, that place is awesome.  And huuuge!  You have to check it out in person.

In fact, there's a cruise starting in Long Beach and rolling to the museum this weekend -

here are the details

.

Keep driving, 

-T

Redondo Beach's summertime fave returns for Halloween this Saturday! 

Details here.

THE NEWS

HEADLINES

• Cruising in California to be legal statewide

• Newsom supports/endorses China EV company?!?!!

• CA cities deal w/ crime and homeless, but robotaxis?! No way!

• Inland Empire armed carjacking suspect arrested

• General Motors losing $200M weekly on UAW strike

• Ford lays off another 150 workers due to UAW strike

• Stellantis in the UAW crosshairs for strike expansion

• Toyota plants get back to business from previous halts

• WH oil/gas policies hurt US help adversaries

• Another massive oil producer consolidation

• Significant oil demand growth being reported

• State suing WH over canceled oil/gas leases

• Record pace for Americans failing behind on car loans

• Top 20 countries producing motor vehicles in 2023

• Fire-destroyed parking structure - were EVs involved?

EVs, ALTs & AUTONOMOUS

• EV road trips designed to promote do the opposite

• Carmakers sober up on the realities of EV production

• This could change a lot - not everything - about EVs

• Wait in traffic then wait for - or fight over - a charge

• Cybertruck's new delivery date - and Elon's admission

• Stellantis plans on recycling EV batteries

• Lucid Hyundai teaming up on new plant

  • Lucid CEO banks nearly $400M last year

TOP IT OFF

• Tesla-man pokes Wikipedia in both eyes

• DeLorean barn find with less than 1k miles

• Love that new car smell - there's a perfume collection

• Florida road crew finds shipwreck from 1800's

• Private pilot reportedly flies over Area 51

• New UFO reports released - some "unusual?!?"

SPOOKY BELMONT

Halloween/Fall car show at San Diego's Belmont Park!  Details HERE

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 CAR SHOWS

WEDNESDAY

• Cerritos - Chariosts SoCal Meet

• El Cajon - Classic Car Cruise

FRIDAY

• Newport Beach - Oktoberfest Weekend 2023

• Garden Grove - Main Street Classic

• Burbank - Classic Car Show

• Los Angeles - Wheels & Whoppers

• Burbank - Valley Cruise Night

• Montebello - YMCA Trunk Or Treat 2023

SATURDAY 

• Newport Beach - Oktoberfest Weekend 2023

• Huntington Beach - Donut Derelicts

• La Puente - Gas & Glaze

• Glendale - Early Rodders

• Santa Clarita - Cars And Coffee Valencia

• Placentia - Donuts, And Dipsticks

• Corona - Cars And Coffee Corona

• Carlsbad - CBad Cars And Coffee

• El Segundo - Net Cruze C&C

• Laguna Niguel - Ted's Place Cars And Coffee

• Bonita - Cars & Coffee Bonita

• La Quinta - La Quinta Cars And Coffee

• Torrance - Caffeine Cruisers

• Riverside - Cars & Coffee @ The Harvest

• Tehachapi - P-Dubs Cars And Coffee

• Camarillo - Crossroads Cars And Coffee

• Rancho Santa Fe - Cars & Coffee Rancho

• Anaheim - Cars, Coffee, And Culture

• San Clemente - South OC C&C

• Valencia - A Brunch of Cars

• LB to Lions - VW Social Cruise

• El Segundo - Hearse Trunk Or Treat 2023

• Cerritos - Sheriffs Halloween Car Show 2023

• Rancho Cucamonga - CHP Trunk Or Treat 2023

• Norco - Rotary Classics Car Show 2023

• Moreno Valley - MV Elks Trunk or Treat 2023

• Redondo - Cruise @ The Beach Trunk Or Treat 2023

SUNDAY 

• Northridge - Classic Cars And Coffee

• Chino Hills - Cars and Coffee Chino Hills

• OC - Silverado Cars & Coffee

• Arcadia - Carcardia Cars & Coffee

• Woodland Hills - Supercar Sunday

• Griffith Park - Cars And Coffee LA

• Ventura - Cars And Coffee Ventura

• Chula Vista - Sunday Funday C&C

• Escondido - Cars and Coffee Escondido

• Ventura - Antique Adventures Classic

• Lakewood - Hot Cakes And Hot Rods

• Seal Beach - Hot Rods At The Beach

• Oceanside - A Brunch of Cars & Pizza

• Newport Beach - Chihuahua Car Meet Up

• Rancho Cucamonga - Chaffey Trunk Or Treat 2023

• Vista - Muscles On Main St. Trunk or Treat 2023

• San Diego - Belmont Park Halloween 2023

• Irwindale - Hot VW Drag Day 2023

MONDAY

• Paramount - Deli Relics Car Meet

TUESDAY 

• Laguna Hills - Tuesday Night Cruise-In

Newport Beach's annual Halloween/Fall weekend festival is happening! 

More HERE

Roving reporter Scot S enjoyed the Friday Night cruise-in at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank last weekend.  He says it was hot out there.  But he got some cool car pics!

Caddy looks like it belongs at Bob's permanently. 

Cool Rat Rod - think we've seen this one around.

Hard to imagine any other name than Mini?