American Car Show 2018 - 22nd of April - Kokkola, Finland

Yesterday I took a train to visit Kokkola and the local American Car Show organized by a registered association called American Car Riders of Kokkola. Two day event gathered around 60 vehicles both cars and motorcycles to the bottom floor of local gymnasium called Kokkolan Urheilutalo. On Saturday there were also a Pin-Up Show and an evening party at a local bar and grill called Rock'n Roll Diner. The event ended on Sunday to a distribution of prizes. Crowd got to vote for their favorite cars and 1947 Cadillac Series -62 Convertible Coupe took the first price on that category. I will post photos of the motorcycles displayed at the event later. Stay tuned 😎

1967 Buick Lesabre Hardtop Coupe

Hot Rod & Rock Show 2018 @ TESC - 14th of April - Tampere, Finland - Part 1/3 - 20's & 30's

Hot Rod & Rock Show is an annual event held in Tampere, Finland, and is organized by Tampere's region of Finnish Hot Rod Association. Event acts as a kick off for the new season. This year was the 39th time it was organized and gathered vehicles from all around Scandinavia.

Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre (TESC) functioned as a venue and vehicles were divided into three halls. American cars and motorcycles were displayed at Hall A, Hall C held a dB drag racing competition and Hall C included tuner cars, customized big rigs, Motorsport and drag racing vehicles. There were also three live bands, HeviSaurus, Peer Günt and Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, performing at Hall D.

This was my first time to visit the event and I concentrated on the American cars side of it. I divided my photos to three blog post by decades. First part covers vehicles from 1920's and 30's, second 40's and 50's and the last one 60's and 70's plus few pics from the parking lot. Check them out 😊

1921 Oldsmobile 43A

Hot Rod & Rock Show 2018 @ TESC - 14th of April - Tampere, Finland - Part 2/3 - 40's & 50's

1940 Chevrolet Special Deluxe Business Coupe

Hot Rod & Rock Show @ TESC - 14th of April - Tampere, Finland - Part 3/3 - 60's, 70's & Parking lot

1960 Chevrolet Corvette

American Car Show 2018 - 30th of March - Helsinki, Finland - Part 1/4 - Yankees (and couple Euros)

This year's American Car Show offered again lots of diversity and unique vehicles from different decades. Oldest were from early 1900's like the 1906 REO Model 8HP Runabout. Since there were so many nice cars it would be difficult to pick favorite ones. But as a big fan of old aircooled VW's, it was nice to see car like the 60's T2 Panel Van, which I also included to the end of this photo set.

There were a lot to see with four different shows, American Car Show, Tuning Car Show, Motorsport and MC Heaven, included to one event at the same time. I divided my blog posts and photos by those shows. Please check them out! 😊

1906 REO Model 8HP Runabout

American Car Show 2018 - 30th of March - Helsinki, Finland - Part 2/4 - Tuning Car Show

Here's a glance to the Tuning Car Show held at the American Car Show this year 😎 Take a look!

1975 Ford Escort MKII

American Car Show 2018 - 30th of March - Helsinki, Finland - Part 3/4 - Motorsport & Offroad

And here's a peek to the Motorsport division of the event 😎 A lot of drag cars and drifters were on display this year. I really liked to look of the 1965 Plymouth Valiant Pro Street drag car. Unfortunately there were lots of people around it all the time and it attracted a lot of attention so I wasn't able to get photo of the front end and engine bay of it 😞 Maybe next time!

Morris Mini LS1 Twin Turbo

American Car Show 2018 - 30th of March - Helsinki, Finland - Part 4/4 - MC Heaven

Here's few photos of motorcycles displayed at this year's American Car Show and MC Heaven which caught my eye and camera 😁 Unfortunately I didn't have that much time to cover the whole motorcycle section of the show. They were also a lot of same bikes which attended Petrol Circus and MP18 show this year.

1929 Husqvarna TV 30