AmericanMuscle 1st Annual Charity Car Show

Ahhhhhh, hot road car shows, a quintessentially American thing to do with your car and your summer weekends. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a sportscar guy, but I've got lots of friends that are really into the Detroit iron, and they can be frighteningly fun cars. AmericanMuscle, a group of just such car enthusiasts sent us info on their latest GtG, which was all for a good cause to boot.

The show featured over 150 mustangs, which is quit a few, along with Mustang Babes, which I am assuming are models that stand next to said Mustangs, and free use of a dyno, which is always appreciated, especially if you've got something to prove. And the charity they were doing all this for seems like a good one too.

It's called Homes for Our Troops, and helps provide housing for disabled veterans and their families when they return home from their tour of duty. Which is nice, since the U.S., as a government, doesn't do much in this area, and boy, don't you need a helping hand after getting your leg blown off for no good reason.

Anyway, this quote from their press release is just priceless:

" ... But with 150 of the sweetest 'Stangs ever to hit the road stationed door to door and bumper to bumper on every corner of the lot surrounded by more than a dozen top Mustang brands, each ready and eager to talk parts and performance ... Then add in a circling helicopter taking photos from 1,000 feet, a free dyno running from dawn 'til dusk, free food and drink for all registered cars, more free stuff than you can carry in a mid-size sports coupe, and a slew of uber-hot AmericanMuscle Girls strolling the lot, showing off their own fox bodies. Now that's a car show."

And that tells you more about America, circa 2009, than the writers of the press release even realize. Shoot, the last time I heard someone use the term " fox bodies" seriously, all the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were still alive.

Don't show up at a gig like this expecting to talk about Sebastian Loeb's car control or how the new all wheel drive system that Lambo is using works. If you do, you'll get blank stares (at best). Come prepared to get into heated discussions about posi-traction diffs and Edelbrock manifolds.

For American car guys, life happens a quarter mile at a time, with enough of a break to eat, drink (a lot of) beer, and ogle the fox bodies. It might not be for everybody, but, like a rodeo, it ain't boring.

Photos courtesy of AmericanMuscle