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AMSOIL-Sponsored Car Shows

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A perfectly built car or hot rod isn’t just a vehicle, it’s a source of passion and pride. Enthusiasts spend every spare hour and dollar crafting their ride’s appearance and fine-tuning its engine. It’s understandable that they want to show them off, and why car lovers come from afar to salivate over these works of art. Car shows bring enthusiasts together to look, learn and celebrate the beauty and innovation of the automobile. AMSOIL helps make these events possible by supporting some of the most notable car shows in North America.

Goodguys Rod & Custom Association Events

AMSOIL is the Official Oil of Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. Goodguys promotes and produces some of the world’s most dynamic automotive events. Founded by lifelong hot-rodder Gary Meadors in 1983, Goodguys Rod & Custom Association is the world’s largest hot-rodding organization with over 70,000 active members worldwide. Goodguys events feature thousands of candy-colored hot rods and customs, tricked out trucks, mighty muscle cars and regal classics sprawled throughout venues such as lush fairgrounds, super speedways and large outdoor stadiums.

Cars, vendor exhibits, adrenaline-pumping Goodguys AutoCross, live entertainment and colorful people create a festive atmosphere charged with electricity. Goodguys offers over 18 events annually across the U.S. Their events range from two-day affairs attended by 30,000 to 40,000 people to three-day festivals attracting over 100,000 auto enthusiasts.

Ocean City Events

AMSOIL is the Official Oil of two events in Ocean City, Md., Cruisin’ Ocean City and Endless Summer Cruisin’.

Cruisin’ Ocean City

Cruisin’ Ocean City (May 1-4, 2025) will feature over 3,000 hot rods, customs, classics and trucks. While the main events will take place at the beautiful beachside Inlet Parking Lot on the historic O.C. boardwalk, there will be car shows citywide.

The Cruisin’ Vendor Showcase happens Friday and Saturday at Outlets Ocean City. There will also be entertainment, boardwalk parades, special guests, featured cars, live music, celebrities, a pedal car show, a neon-light car show, a pinup contest and much more.

Endless Summer Cruisin’

If you like mixing your automobile eye-candy with the action of a sea-side playground, make your way to Ocean City for Endless Summer Cruisin.’ Take in car shows and vendors at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center parking lot and the Inlet Parking Lot, plus several more car shows at business locations around Ocean City. Other events include a pedal car show, neon-and-LED light car show, live music and more. Some of the hottest show cars will be competing for cash and trophy awards at the Hot Rod & Custom Car Show indoors at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center.

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Hot August Nights

Hot August Nights is the largest classic car event in the U.S. with 6,000 registered participants and 500,000-plus attendees spanning 10 days and 12 venues.

“When we say that Hot August Nights takes over the area, that is not an understatement,” said Deny Dotson, executive director for Hot August Nights. “You’d be hard pressed to not see or hear a classic as sponsor-parking areas are filled with 1979-and-older vehicles of all shapes, sizes and models. … It’s one great celebration and we are dedicated to preserving the tradition of delivering the ultimate car enthusiast experience.”

LS Fest

LS Fest is the largest engine-specified event in the world, a celebration of all things LS and current generation LT. From race cars to hotrods, drift cars to dirt trucks, muscle cars to late models – if it’s LS or current LT-powered, you’ll find it at LS Fest. The event started in Bowling Green, Ky. over a decade ago has since expanded to Las Vegas, Nev. and Fort Worth, Texas. The events include drag racing, drifting, autocross, burnouts, off-road, a car show and more. Drivers come from all over to compete for victory in their class and overall performance in a set of specific segments.

Jeep Beach

Jeep Beach is the largest Jeep-exclusive gathering in the world. Each year, thousands of Jeep enthusiasts gather in Daytona Beach, Flor. to celebrate the Jeep community with off-road adventures, cruising the drivable beach, racing around the track and conquering the obstacle course inside the legendary Daytona International Speedway. The vendor show features hundreds of cutting-edge Jeep-specific vendors.

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Video transcript: Company of Enthusiasts: We’re into Classic Cars

My name is Jerry Mikulski and I’m an independent AMSOIL dealer from Wyoming, Pennsylvania. And I’m into cars and anything with an engine. We are at Victory Pig in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. It’s a weekly car cruise.

A lot of people come here just to hang out, check out everybody else’s cars. My family’s been doing restorations since I was little. My father and my uncle have been restoring cars before I was even born. We try to restore them to the point where they are an amazing looking driver.

You can take them out to a cruise, drive them 120 miles to a trip, enjoy them. That’s really what we want to do with them. My favorite part of restoring a car has to be the journey, the memories that are created, working on something, trying to get things right, finding that part, looking for the car in the beginning, trying to find the car that you feel like that’s going to be my car. You never forget that moment, that adrenaline rush of, wow, look what I found.

This is definitely work for me. Always an exciting moment. Throughout the years, we’ve accumulated a really nice collection. It’s a lot of really unique stories that go along with each vehicle.

My name is Jerry Mikulski Sr. And this is my 1965 Corvette* Stingray. When I first bought the car in 1978, it was in rough shape. I went and bought a brand new short block from General Motors*, 327, 300 horsepower.

I changed the rear end to a posi 370. I like the low end. The side pipes roar, but that to me is music. The radio works, but I never play it because the music comes out of these side pipes.

I’m Greg Mikulski and this is my 1958 Pontiac Chieftain four-door hardtop. I bought it when I was 14, fixed it up, made sure everything was okay mechanically, repainted it. And by the time I was 16, my girlfriend and I went to the senior prom with this car. And then several years later, we ended up getting married.

Being my first car, you know, you talk to different guys and they always say, shouldn’t have sold my first car. Well, I still have mine and I plan on keeping it. And this is my wife’s 1957 Nash Metropolitan. This is an American-made car by American Motors.

It was made in England to help keep the cost down, four-cylinder, English engine in it. It’s a three-speed on the column. It’s designed to be driven in the city to go shopping, a great fun car to drive, turns heads all the time. You don’t see many of them around and people just love it.

These are my Jeeps. I have a 2002 Jeep* Wrangler TJ and a 2011 Jeep Wrangler JKU. Unlike all the restoration projects of the classic cars we have, Jeeps are more of an upgrade. The parts available to it are real easy to put on and you make it bigger, better, badder, so you could take it off-road and put it to the test.

Working in the garage with my brother and my dad have a huge impact on who I am today. I feel like I’ve gotten a very fulfilling life out of growing up in the family that I did and I want to pass that along to my girls. They will definitely be in the garage with me, getting their hands dirty. I would hope that all those values that have been instilled in me, I’ve passed on to them and they could pass it on to their kids.

My name is Jerry Mikulski and I’m an independent AMSOIL dealer from Wyoming, Pennsylvania and I’m into cars and anything with an engine.

Carlisle Events

AMSOIL is the Official Oil of Carlisle Events, one of the world’s largest presenters of collector car and truck events. Carlisle’s shows at the Carlisle, Pa., Fairgrounds draw enthusiasts from across the country and around the world in search of automotive parts, memorabilia and collector vehicles. Planning a trip? Start with our newcomer’s guide to the Carlisle car shows and these things to do in Carlisle while you’re there.

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Hot Rod Power Tour

The Hot Rod Power Tour is a celebration of American car culture. Each year, the tour invites car and truck enthusiasts to road-trip together between five cities in five days. Any and all types of vehicles are welcome to join in and explore the backroads and byways that make the American highway system unique.

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