Photo: Muscle cars line the streets of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds during the 2010 Car Craft Summer Nationals.
Car Craft magazine’s annual street-machine event returned to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds July 16-18, drawing thousands of cars and spectators on a steamy, stormy weekend.
The Minnesota Street Rod Association’s 37th annual Back to the ’50s weekend June 18-20 featured nearly 12,000 registered street rods, customs and classics and drew more 100,000 spectators to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
A chat with Car Craft and Hot Rod Publisher Jerry Pitt at the 2009 Summer Nationals.
British iron might not be the focus of this site, but there’s a shop in Minneapolis that has such a treasure trove of teeny tiny vintage vehicles, parts and paraphernalia from across the pond that it just can’t be ignored.
It’s hard to make a trip to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds without thinking of summer, especially when V8s are rumbling around the perimeter and the smell of mini doughnuts is wafting from Warner Coliseum’s doors.
After several months of one of the coldest, snowiest winters in recent memory, car nuts from throughout the Midwest came out of hibernation Feb. 6-8 and converged on the River Centre in St. Paul for the World of Wheels show.