Classic Car Hop at Panther Mountain Inn 9-14-12

Last night I photographed the Car Hop at Panther Mountain Inn, Chestertown, NY. A gathering of mostly classic muscle cars with a few modern cars sprinkled in for good measure, this has become a monthly event with the next show to be in late Oct. again at the P-House.

I only got one short panorama video of the event itself, but plan on doing video tours of the cars at the next show, and hopefully with the cars running and perhaps the story behind each vehicle by the owners. However for this show it was all about the photos, with the album of 107 full resolution photographs at the link below on google plus (one does not need a google acct. to view or download the images). 

I especially am pleased with the various unusual angles and perspectives that I got of many of these cars, such as the fine curve of the body, super close ups of the badges, a birds eye view up a hood scoop, a mechanic's eye for the engines. Unfortunately there were many people as eager to see the cars as my camera lens, and these are not floor show images but taken in the heat of a very well attended event, so there are people in many of the shots who I can't identify. If anyone knows who they are, let me know and I will add their names to the photo descriptions. 

I'm still waiting for the information on who won the competition. Since 4 or more vehicles entered an hour after the other registered cars, many of the votes--including my own--were already handed in before they arrived, otherwise I am sure I am not the only one who would have changed their top 3 picks. The 5 that entered late were the blue car with massive hood scoop, the maroon Stingray (which would have had my vote for #1 if it had been there before my ballot was turned in), the 56 Chevy, the monster jacked up VW and a white Vette. 

My final votes as top 3 vehicles in the show are shown here:

 

My original 3 votes were for:

• the orange Demon was easily the coolest car there with the wickedest history in the rebuild that took over 8 months in a body shop to piece it all back together, the owner just getting it back last month;
• the green Chevelle as best presentation of the show, with it's picnic case in the trunk and newspaper pages from the era, the engine and interior clean enough to perform surgery on, it was the best presented vehicle originally;
• the charcoal colored Vette which until the latter entries showed up, was the hottest of the nearly countless Vettes in the show--so many showed up in fact that there should have been a separate category just for those.

 I believe there may have been at least 8 Corvettes, with several Chevelles & an old Goat, bringing back many happy memories for the attendees at this free event, with over 28 vehicles entered. Ballots were provided to all attendees for voting, a 50/50 raffle was held and trophies were awarded to the 3 best in Show. I'll add the results here for the trophies as soon as I know the winning vehicles. For now, enjoy the photographs below, the short video and if interested in attending the next event, contact the Panther Mountain Inn for more information on their facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/panther.mountaininn

To view the full resolution images in the 107 photo album, visit the google plus link here: https://plus.google.com/photos/104038011479006036477/albums/5788458741644356833

If you need to contact me regarding any information on the vehicles or people in the images that you'd like me to add description data to, please email me at ginazoneny@gmail.com or contact me via google plus on my profile at https://plus.google.com/104038011479006036477

Short panorama video of the event before the late entries and the place became mobbed with people: