Sacramento Autorama Show

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We took the 53 Kaiser to the Autorama in Sacramento CA a 600 mile trip one way so we left a day early February 12th and spent the 1st night at a KOA campground in Visilia CA  arriving at the Cal Expo RV Park on Wednesday Afternoon.
We had a move in time on Thursday of 12 noon to 2 pm to take the Kaiser into the building and spent the afternoon putting down the carpet, positioning the car, cleaning and set-up the display.
The show was open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the judging, as we found out later, done mostly after show hours.  This was the first car show that we have attended where the cars are judged by the International Show Car Association (ISCA) rules and we were required to leave the doors, hood, and trunk open, we didn't so the Kaiser was not judged for the interior, engine, or trunk and we placed 3rd in the mild hardtop category and received a plaque.
On sunday evening after the awards we picked up our judging sheet and were told by the judges that had the car been open we would have won 1st place.  We were very disappointed in ourselves for not knowing the rules.
The other cars in the show were beautiful with the Custom d'elegance and the King of Kustoms Awards to mention 2 of the many awards given out.
We didn't get the car out of the building until 7:30pm and back into the trailer until 8:30 pm then had a later dinner.  The next morning we left at 5 am and drove 12 hours to get home before the storm came in, the front was forecasted to hit the Sacramento area on Monday evening. 
 
We did enjoy the show, learned a lot and have not decided if we will try next year to go to the Grand National Roadster show in LA
 
The 51 will go to the Scottsdale show in March, then the Kaiser will go to the Good Guys indoor show at Pleasanton and then to Del Mar.

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