NSRA Golden State Nationals Oct 5 - 7 Sacramento CA

[jbwelda]

City Styles Model Club is proud to announce:

National Street Rod Association will host a model show and contest at their annual

Golden State Nationals Car Show, Oct 5 - 7 at Cal Expo in Sacramento California.

Events and entertainment at the model show includes:

- Free models for kids to build during "Make and Take" Saturday

- Model building demonstrations and tips from City Styles Club members

- Trophies and celebrity picks

- If history remains consistent, there will be at least 100 models entered and on display.

No extra charge to enter models in contest; all modellers will be given a free pass for Sunday to

pick up your models and attend the award ceremony, scheduled for noon on Sunday Oct 7. All models entered for awared judging must be submitted by 5pm Saturday Oct 6.

Aside from the model contest, this show features the very best of west coast and beyond street rods and many other interesting vendor booths, special attractions, autograph sessions etc and is always a whole days worth of interest at the very least!

For further info contact Roy Kinji, (916) 427-2948, or attend one of our meetings, last tuesday evening of the month, at the Round Table Pizza on Folsom Blvd at approx 48th Street in Sacramento! Bring your work to show! We welcome new blood and styles at our meetings!

[jbwelda]

bump to the top!

Note our club meeting as noted in the original post is coming up week from tonite, Tuesday, Sept 25.

All Sacramento area builders, come on out!

And don't forget the NSRA model show and contest, Cal Expo, October 5 - 7

[jbwelda]

im out of town until saturday of this show so i just thought i would

bump it to the top!

hope all near sacramento will come out and bring your models to show and shine!

[jbwelda]

just thought i would report back on the model show. pretty good turnout, especially on sunday when the judging was (people from out of town mostly who probably didnt want to come earlier to drop off their models and then have to return sunday to pick them up). i would estimate maybe 100 -120 models on the table as well.

we had a "build it and take it" session for the kids on saturday that went over real well. if i recall correctly the give away model was a 34 ford and we probably had at least 30 kids total over the course of a couple hours over working on putting them (snap kits) together. i was really amazed at the interest in some of the kids eyes, a number of them even came over to the contest area and said thanks and really had a look of pride and joy in their eyes.

lots of people eyeballed the models and there was a lot less than usual of "hey how much is that?" obviously expecting that it is a 20$ diecast, plus it was amazing how many people mentioned having old buildups out in the garage or still secretly thinking about building a model of their (or their would-be) car.

some highlights included ralph henderson bringing out his mega bad 1/8 scale deuce roadster he posted photos of here not too long ago, jerry cardinal showed up sunday with a whole boxload of his more than incredible brass rods, featured in last months model cars mag...he even had two newly completed ones but im afraid the details are escaping me because i just kinda get glassy eyed in the presence of his work if you know what i mean.

we had a wide range of subjects represented from our builders in city styles club, plus a few folks who found out about the contest on friday when they visited the nationals, and went home and dug out their new or old builds and brought them down to enter.

lots of prizes were awarded, i did a bit of judging, and i believe ralph and jerry both took home some hardware, and a fun time was had by all!

the actual NSRA Nationals in 1:1 scale was great too; lots of boyds wheels and billet stuff but plenty of variety to keep ones interest!

many thanks to all who came out and to city styles model car club in suckramento for putting it on. i know roy took some pics so if and when i get them i will post em!