MCACN 2025 pictures

[JH27N0B]

Wow what a show this year! 
I've joked it could have been renamed Mopar Cars and Chrysler Nationals this time, as Mopars seemed to dominate the show.
So many great cars to see.  The B body hemi convertible feature knocked it out of the park, close second to the hemi E body feature 10 years earlier.
The A990 display was something else too! 
Bruce "Floyd" here on the board brought his FJ6 T/A to be in the spring special display of FM3 and FJ6 1970 Mopars and I was glad to get a chance to see it.
The only 2 known FM3 hemi cudas were in that feature too!
Set up days:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111914442@N04/albums/72177720330674770/
Show:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111914442@N04/albums/72177720330687156/

[R/T's 4 R/P]

Thanks for the great pictures Brad
I've always wondered if the Mopar collections are largerand better organized...or are they just more noticed by me as an enthusiast.
It does seem like the Corvette crowd is dwindling. Lots of them didn't like to play well with everyone else anyway.
It was peculiar to me to see those 1950s Cadillacs. They seemed a bit out of place.

I know Bob works hard to keep the show fresh and relevant.
I wonder if 1990s Japanese cars will be coming up next... a nod to all the Fast and Furious cars.

[dodj]

Wonder if that FM3 C body is Mikes

Thanks for the pics Brad!!!

[JH27N0B]

Of course, my pictures are biased.  I don't make it a point to go around the entire floor and photograph every car there.  I focus on what I like.  So from my pictures one might think there was only one Vette in the entire show!
This year the Corvettes got put mostly in one room, the room a number of vendors are in.  I never even went in that room this time!
The red carpet feature when you first enter the show rotates each year among the big 3.  This year was Mopar!  Next year will be Ford.  I haven't heard the theme of next years Ford feature display yet.
Ford is tough. I hadn't thought about it until hearing it mentioned not long ago, but Ford was not a big player in the Muscle car era.  They were big in pony cars of course, with the Mustang, but not a whole lot beyond that.  Mopar and GM were the main players. So what will '26 bring for the feature, Bosses were last time. Shelby's I think were it 3 years prior.  What is left? Torinos?
Colin Comer is a partner in the show and a huge Ford guy, I trust he'll figure it out to help Bob with that challenge!
There aren't many pre 60 cars in the mix there.  A Studebacher club has a display every year, and a few earlier cars in it. There is a local collector who is a big supporter of the show who brings some earlier cars each year. He has a few muscle cars like an LS6 convertible and a Shelby vert, but his primary focus is 55 to early 60s.
So likely anything on the floor that seems a bit non muscle is Ken's.
https://kennagelclassiccars.com/

[JH27N0B]

Wonder if that FM3 C body is Mikes

Thanks for the pics Brad!!!

Of course, likely the only FM3 C body made!
Oddly it's coded on the tag FM3 not 999.

[larry4406]

Thanks for the picture link!  Lots of outstanding cars.

What is the story of the beige firebird with the scoops on the rear quarters?

[Lunchbox]

Nice photo spread, thanks for sharing. Will have to go next year.

[JH27N0B]

Thanks for the picture link!  Lots of outstanding cars.

What is the story of the beige firebird with the scoops on the rear quarters?

It along with the Pontiac Banshee prototype were at the front of a Pontiac OHC 6 cammer display.  I don't know too much about it but I think it was called the Fitch Sprint Firebird.  Fitch was a race car driver and did that car for GM as some sort of concept in '67.

[MEK-Dangerous]

Thanks for those awesome photos!

I was surprised to see Mustang II's there. That generation of Mustangs from 1974-79 was almost as bad as the second generation of the Challenger from 1978-1983. I thought all the cars from that generation were extinct by now.

[JH27N0B]

Thanks for those awesome photos!

I was surprised to see Mustang II's there. That generation of Mustangs from 1974-79 was almost as bad as the second generation of the Challenger from 1978-1983. I thought all the cars from that generation were extinct by now.

At least they weren't badge engineered off a Japanese import!
That group belongs to a collector who owns every color King Cobra.
I sponsored an all makes Malaise Muscle feature in 2022 there that in the years since, the show has continued to have a smaller focused Malaise era display.  The King Cobras were this years Malaise feature.
I was a teenager in the 70s and was bummed I'd missed out on the muscle cars of the 60s and early 70s. I thought almost everything new then was lame, except 4x4 trucks and SUVs. 
Now that I'm older, I do look back to then with a degree of nostalgia.  I bought my 78 T top Magnum in '21 as a comfortable to drive rarely seen cruiser and have had a ball with it.  So that is what spurred my interest in Malaise era cars.  I still like the muscle era cars best though!