Busy, busy, busy!
The month of August is out of control. The first weekend of this month starts out in Carlisle, PA for the Carlisle All Truck Nationals. The next weekend we travel to Bowling Green, KY for Havoc and Downstairs 21^st Birthday. Watch out for the new guy, he’ll be the one puking!! We then finish our 21 day working spree at the 14^th annual Import and Truck Bash.
Don’t forget to join us on Friday August the 17^th for our 5^th annual Open house and kick off ITB party!! The party starts at 7:00 PM, local Indianapolis band, SAY will start performing at 8 PM. To check them out, visit: http://www.myspace.com/urbansoulfolkfunksquad

We start the August Issue off on location with staff photographer Smalls, shooting Russell Jones extremely clean 87’S-10. Russell has spent countless hours and dollars working on his show stopping ride.
Accompanying the dime we have the gorgeous gauge girl Christina Parks from Nashville, TN. Make sure to get an up close and personal look at Christina’s gauge girl interview, her beauty will leave you breathless.

2007 Show Tour

see our event calendar for the latest upcoming show details!

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To wrap up this month’s collection of features, photographer Toby Mosholder shot Steve Owens 2005 Chevy Cobalt SS. Steve uses this radical painted Cobalt to showcase his custom paint work at shows across the Midwest. If you see Steve at a show, make sure you get and up close look at his super clean paint work.

For events this month, first and foremost, we feature Slamology the 4^th annual Car and Truck Music Festival was a huge success. With over 500 vehicles competing for top honors, the show was like no other, there were over 32 different musical performers in the two day weekend. It was remarkable! Special congratulations go out to Sean Berkey for taking home our one of a kind custom weight belt, the Best of Show 2007. The 2007 Slamology DVD will be out within the next couple of weeks. Stayed tuned for information on the 2008 event at; www.slamology.com .

Our next stop on our show tour we stop off with staff photographer Matt Petro at the Wisconsin International Raceway for Drop Fest. James and his crew have stepped this show up a notch every year. For an extra special treat on Friday night this year Buckcherry performed for everyone at the show. Nothing like a big name band to help draw in a huge crowd “Even in the Rain”. For all Drop Fest info visit www.dropfest.com

Over the past few years we have been covering the Good Guys Hot Rod shows as a little extra show coverage for our readers. Even though the Good Guys lifestyle is way out of our normal content, these guys have great ideas that we can all learn from. This month we showcase the 19^th annual Good Guys Hot Rod Nationals in Indianapolis. Over the next few months we will have extended coverage from a few other good guys’ shows, so stay tuned for more great content. If you have never had the pleasure of attending a good guys show make sure to add one to your calendar, you won’t be disappointed. www.good-guys.com

To finish up this month’s show coverage we travel to Asheville, NC with Staff photographers Smalls and Randall Reynolds at Scraping the Smokies. Over the past few years this event has grown leaps and bounds for the mini community in the south. For all info on next year’s event visit www.scrapinthesmokies.com

Crazy ass funny videos…. Make sure to visit the video vault for our selection of some of the best stuff on the web this month… My personal favorite is the Landlord with Will Ferrell…
Well that wraps it up for me this month. As always if you have any questions, concerns or comments, do not hesitate to contact us… and if you are on mySpace, don’t forget to stop by and add us to your friends list.
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-DB  
donnieb@gaugemagazine.com