SUTTON

It's great to know that hard work and passion has it's rewards. Not necessarily in monetary terms, although it helps, but in this case- throwing a party where everyone has a great time. So much so, that nobody wanted to leave. So much so, that waking up in a quite house Monday morning, in your own bed, seemed so damn boring and uncomfortable.

The one and only Tim Sutton was there to document the whole thing, and we couldn't be more flattered by the article he wrote about the UNION SHOW.

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Panel Beaters CC Union Show May 24-26 2013

Some how we always romance the old days of what was . I think thats what keeps most of us in the vintage car world . The memories keep us going . A lot of people remember what they want about the past and well most of my friends and I remember what Paso Robles used to be like. It started as a group of friends meeting in a tiny little town called Paso Robles ,ca. on Memorial day weekend to get together and unwind , benchrod , and just hang out . Since that day 20 some odd years ago the show outgrew Paso and was moved to Santa Maria. Its now a full on “car show” at the fairgrounds . It lost what it first started out to be and the roots which made it fun. I still enjoy santa maria and in no way am slamming it , but as we all know things never stay the same . some may call it progress others end up doing their own thing. This leads me to the Panel Beaters. I feel they just wanted to do their own thing . This gathering isnt an anti or even close to it . Its just a bunch of friends gathering in a small town south of Santa Maria and having a good time. Its about cars becauser they all drove em , but its more about having a good time . No entry fee, no bullshitjust get in your rod or custom and go a few hundred miles to a quaint little town and have fun thats it . This was year one for this show and damnit if I dont want them to do it again and again. It was about the funnest thing ive done all year. Youll find hotrods and customs , but no trailers as all the cars are drivers and in various states if repair. Year one car clubs included Panel Beaters CC , the Imortals , retarded sparks , and the Barons hotrod club. This was the core group that took over the town in its entirety . I see this show out growing it self in years to come but damnit if i wont go back and support everything these guys are doing…
cheers boys and long live the dreams.
TS

UNION SHOW '13

Never been prouder of the Panel Beaters CC, especially member,
Eddie "Munster."
After many hours of organizing, gathering, sponsoring and NO hours of sleep, the 1st Annual UNION CAR & BIKE SHOW was a huge success!

A big thank you to everyone who turned out.
The cars and bikes were top notch.
The Union Hotel is the coolest hotel on Earth with the best staff that any of us drinking, eating and CARousing types could've hoped for.
The little town of Los Alamos showed us out-of-towners the most hospitable welcome and seemed to really appreciate the "boom" to the local economy.
The Heavy Heavy Hearts rocked our asses off Saturday night. They are not to be missed...ever!
Thanks again to our sponsors, including Spagetty's Garage who donated the most bitchin' painted cycle helmet you'll ever see.

So, with that being said... we're doing it again!!

Come and join us for the 2nd Annual Union Car & Bike Show on May 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2014.

We are already being asked by other companies to help sponsor next year's event and we will be adding a bunch of new venders as well. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or if you want to book a venders space, or if you have any questions about lodging, etc., please check us out at
Panel Beaters SoCal on Facebook and we'll help ya with all the info.

See ya there!

On our way up from Bob's Big Boy in Burbank.

Pit stop in Ventura.

We made it!

Just plain cool.

The Station.

The Union Hotel.

Bitchin' local bike.

Perfect light for a perfect night.

The Heavy Heavy Hearts don't stop rockin'!

Support "staff."

Horns were up all night.

It's not lost on us that we can only have this type of fun and freedom because of our troops. 

HST 2

Jesus Hated Bald Pussy By Hunter S. Thompson From "Kingdom Of Fear " 2003 Let's face it, the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do, says what he is told to say, poses the way he is told to pose. He is a fool. No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time, when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House. Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters, it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and acts giddy about other people's lives, if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder by definition, a loud and meaningless animal with no functional intelligence and no balls. To say this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon. Whoops! Did I say that? Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a Liberal? The capacity of these vicious assholes we elected to be in charge of our lives for four years to commit terminal damage to our lives and our souls and our loved ones is far beyond Nixon's. Shit! Nixon was the creator of many of the once-proud historical landmarks that these dumb bastards are savagely destroying now: the Clean Air Act of 1970; Campaign Finance Reform; the endangered species act; a Real-Politik dialogue with China; and on and on. The prevailing quality of life in America-by any accepted methods of measuring-was inarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of our Lord 2002. The Boss was a certified monster who deserved to be impeached and banished. He was a truthless creature of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a foul human monument to corruption and depravity on a scale that dwarfs any other public official in American history. But Nixon was at least smart enough to understand why so many honorable patriotic U.S. citizens despised him. He was a Liar. The truth was not in him. Nixon believed, as he said many times, that if the president of the United States does it, it can't be illegal. But Nixon never understood the much higher and meaner truth of Bob Dylan's warning that "To live outside the law you must be honest." The difference between an outlaw and a war criminal is the difference between a pedophile and a Pederast: The pedophile is a person who thinks about sexual behavior with children, and the Pederast does these things. He lays hands on innocent children, he penetrates them and changes their lives forever. Being the object of a pedophile's warped affections is a Routine feature of growing up in America, and being a victim of a Pederast's crazed "love" is part of dying. Innocence is no longer an option. Once penetrated, the child becomes a Queer in his own mind, and that is not much different than murder. Richard Nixon crossed the line when he began murdering foreigners in the name of "family values"- and George Bush crossed it when he sneaked into office and began killing brown skinned children in the name of Jesus and the American people. When Muhammad Ali declined to be drafted and forced to kill "gooks" in Vietnam he said, "I ain't got nothin' against them Viet Cong. No Cong ever called me Nigger." I agreed with him, according to my own personal ethics and values. He was right. If we all had a dash of Muhammad Ali's eloquent courage, this country and the world would be a better place today because of it. Okay. That's it for now. Read it and weep....See you tomorrow, folks. You haven't heard the last of me. I am the one who speaks for the spitit of freedom and decency in you. Shit. Somebody has to do it. We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.

MD '13