RodandPiston 7th Super Cruise Food Drive for Buffalo City Mission

This year when you come to the RodandPiston.com 7th Annual Super Cruise bring a can of non- perishable food. This is an optional donation, but all donated food will go to the Buffalo City Mission. Not only will you be doing a good deed, but you'll get yourself entered for a random drawning to win prizes for doing so.

Help Oppose Federal “Cash for Clunkers” programs

You need to make your voices heard otherwise the government will be taking our hobby away!

Quoted from SEMA Action Network
"Washington lawmakers are drafting a large economic stimulus package to help create jobs and rebuild infrastructure. They want to include a nationwide scrappage program which would give U.S. tax dollars to consumers who turn-in older cars to have them crushed, as a misguided attempt to spur new car sales. The lawmakers need to scrap this idea. "

Discuss and read others opinons here:
http://www.rodandpiston.com/db/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7301

Bidding Now open for Logo Auction: RodandPiston.com 7th Annual Super Cruise

Bid to have an artistic rendering of your car featured on the July 11, 20097th Annual RodandPiston.com Super Cruise Logo!
Auction closes Wednesday February 4th at 8pm (EST)

Bid Now!
http://www.rodandpiston.com/features/supercruise7_logo_auction.asp

Sunday July 11, 2009 will mark the seventh running of the RodandPiston.com Super Cruise. This year we will be auctioning off the rights to have your car be one of the two featured vehicles on the event logo (Example shown below).This logo will be featured on dash plaques given to event participants and prominently featured on RodandPiston.com and in all advertising campaigns and flyers. It will also be featured on any event mechandise we choose to sell for the event. The 2 highest bidders will purchase the right to have their vehicle featured. The auction will close on Wednesday February 4, 2009 at 8pm. Bids must be made in increments of $10 or more and be greater than one of the current highest bidders. Payment from the winners must be made to RodandPiston.com within 10 days of the end of the auction or bidder forfeits their spot and it falls to the next highest bidder.

Email Questions to:
Site@RodandPiston.com

Last Year's Logo :

New Site Sponsor: Street Machines of Rochestor Motor Mania (April 2009)

Make sure to check it out
http://www.streetmachinesofrochester.com/motormania.htm

RodandPiston.com 7th Annual Super Cruise Announced

Well if you see my wife running around with her nose pierced it's (Joe's fault). She claimed if I ran another car show she was going to do it cause she knows I don't want her to as much as she wanted me to stop running car shows.

Anyway bad news for me is good news for you, looks like we are going to continue the RodandPiston.com Super Cruise this year. The event will be at Fisherman's Park again, on 7/12/2009, with a few notable changes (NO AWARDS, low entrance fee $5, and NO RAIN)

Most the rest is staying the same, we'll have a logo auction (details posted soon), dash plaques, food and auto vendors, music, etc.....

For now that's about all we got figured out, more info to come. Oh and you can pre-register already at:
http://www.rodandpiston.com/features/randp_7th_supercruise_pre.asp

Sorry you can't be the first we already have 3 pre-registered as of now.

Should be a great time, to learn more check out the forum topic Joe started at:
http://www.rodandpiston.com/db/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=7083

RodandPiston.com's 25 millionth visit

Well we never could have imagined the kind of success we'd have these last several years. I remember being amazed when we hit 1 or 2 million and now that seems so inconsequential. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the web site with your pictures and your forum posts and those that have passed the word on about us to your family and friends. Here's to another 25,000,000 pageviews.

Nov 12 (4pm) - 13 (9am) Server Outage

Had to move our server to a new rack yesterday and change IP's Addresses. While I had hoped this would be a relatively short outage, unfortunately I missed the removal of the old Gateway address last night before I went home from the ISP. This morning I stopped in and corrected the problem and so far so good everything seems to be up and working well again. If you notice any problems email us at site@rodandpiston.com as they may indicate a problem I have to correct because of our new IP.

2009 RodandPiston Girls - Model Search

We are looking for women to pose with Cars next year for 2009 RodandPiston Girls. Photos will be hosted on the site something like the following are of 2008 RodandPiston Girl Rebekah http://www.rodandpiston.com/pictures.asp?id=girls/rebekah2008

We've been trying to pull this off for awhile now, but if these year we can get enough models interested we may do like a RodandPiston Girl of the month or at least bi-monthly.

All photographs tastefully done (no nudity) if you know of anyone or are yourself interested send us a few photos to site@rodandpiston.com

New Blogs Section Added to RodandPiston.com

I'm sure you know because you're already reading mine.

Joe and myself will be blogging about site related news and automotive events we attend, auto news we hear etc...

Our Tune-Up e-mail newsletters will probably be depreciated as this will give us a way to get news out to you much easier and timely.

We may have list some guest bloggers on the site, if you feel you got content to contribute as far as auto news, car show/event reviews etc... let us know. You can set yourself up a blog on http://www.blogger.com , send us and email request to be added to the site. If we review your blog and find that it has content that would benefit our site visitors we'll add you to our blog list.

RodandPiston.com Database Woes - No More

Nov 9th Update:
As of about 1pm today, I completed the recovery of our oracle database and re-enabled all the dependent features of RodandPiston.com. Everything is now all good again.
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Nov 8th:
Well Last Friday (Nov 7, 2008) a unexpected power outage took out our Oracle Database. I was not able to recover the corrupted files so I uninstalled Oracle and am going to do a clean install of it and then load the data back in from our daily backups of the Oracle Tables. In the short term certain portions of the web site had to be disabled. If all goes as planned we should be back up to running 100% again sometime today.

2008 SEMA Show Recap - Photos & Video

Well the downturn in the economy has definitely been felt in the automotive Industry. We were at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas Last week for the 5th year in a row and the number of Exhibitors and participants was less then years past, but it continues to be the biggest automotive event in the US. We spoke with the project director for the new Camaros and also saw several of them including a race car concept amongst several others. Production of the production version is ramping up we are told. The usual automotive celebrities were there again, as well as a few others like wrestling's Goldberg. The "Booth Babes" did not dissapoint again this year as well.



RodandPiston.com Forum Topics:

- SEMA Show 2008 - Girls, Cars, Celebrities, & More (JohnnyC79Z28)
- SEMA 2008 - My review - What happens in Vegas... (CamaroJoe)

2008 SEMA Show Photos:

- 2008 SEMA Show - Gallery 1
- 2008 SEMA Show - Gallery 2
- 2008 SEMA Show - Gallery 3
- 2008 Girls of SEMA Show - Gallery 1
- 2008 Girls of SEMA Show - Gallery 2
- 2008 Celebrities at SEMA Show

Youtube Video of 2008 Girls of SEMA Show Photos
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HVJhD0WX4