The Galpin Car Show Is Coming November 9 And You Better Frickin’ Be There

To all our California friends and family, and the rest of y’all who have the eagerness to travel, we’re shooting our flare into the sky to let you know that the Galpin Car Show is coming back, and we’re ready for you. It’s time to come home.

If you don’t know, our sister company, Galpin Motors, has been holding some huge car shows for a bit now, and this is the 11th gathering that will see a couple of square blocks of North Hills (where we’re based) shut down, just to show y’all a good automotive time. Here’s the best part: Because Galpin consists of a bunch of different dealerships, from Porsche Santa Clarita to Genesis of Van Nuys and the main mothership Galpin Ford, there are so many options here that it’s basically guaranteed you’ll like what’s on display.

Like living in the lap of luxury and looking at hypercars? Head to the Jaguar Land Rover dealership, where the upper crust of society concentrates. Or maybe stroll by the Horseless Carriage restaurant, which had a massive showing of JDM icons, with all shapes and sizes of Volkswagens on the adjacent lot. And while The Autopian and our readers can find something to love in probably any car that comes our way, we also know that we have our own little eccentric, quirky taste, and that’s where our section comes in.

The magnum opus for us was the full gamut of microcars that came from the Galpin Auto Sports collection (and also our incredible Aztek), which had its tent set up as if David were still sleeping in it. We’re planning on bringing a handful of the Galpin Collection’s microcars back out this year, and since we shelved the Aztek so we can put it back on the market, we’re gonna have the world famous Xpel – Autopian Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet, with its revolutionary, first of its kind, gobsmackingly unserious half PPF wrap and its glorious cuts and bruises open for public display.

Something else that would probably get your tails wagging was the aforementioned Galpin Auto Sports collection that featured probably every hot rod you’ve ever read about as a kid, just waiting for you to drool as if you had a lip packed full of super sour warheads. You can expect more of that this year.

Ever heard of the Roach Coach? Yeah, we got that. Same with The Bathtub Buggy, which has a porcelain throne for the driver’s seat and his and hers bathtubs flanking each other for rear seating. And a fun fact about that scrub-a-dub tub buggy: it actually runs, getting all its pull from a supercharged Hemi V8. To quote Beau when he talked about it, “I got it up to three miles an hour, and it was the scariest thing I’ve ever driven.”

Also in the collection were some modern-day cars that keep hotrodding eccentricities alive, such as a Pink bosozoku-style van, and even a lowrider ice cream truck created by renowned LA tattoo and graffiti artist, Mister Cartoon.

While we can’t guarantee that everything I talked about here will be on display this year, I’ll hang my hat on it being a show that’ll give you everything you want and then some. That’s the USDA and USCPSC-backed Griffin Riley guarantee. *You can register for the show by clicking here.* Email griffin@theautopian.com if you’d like to be in the Autopian section!

See you November 9 at 9AM until 2 PM!