Sure, sure — you love your Prius. Or your fixie-skateboard-rollerblades-scooter-Clipper pass. But there's something awfully rock n' roll about a muscle car, especially one that's been lovingly restored to roarin'-around-town condition.
Sat/7, local auto fanatics Chiselers Car Club [1] host their first annual Chiselers Car Club Blowout — "blowout" in this context referring to a raucous party, of course, not a tire gone haywire. Revelers are encouraged to "bring your pre '75 pimped-ass ride" (bikes are also welcome); the carless can gawk all they want. Arrive during the daytime hours (starts at 4 p.m., free) to check out the cars, scarf some barbecue, and listen to classic tunes by the Ramshackle Romeos [2], a two-man group incorporating an array of strange instruments, including the ever-haunting musical saw [3].
Stick around for the night show (starts at 8 p.m., $10 [4]), featuring the pop-punk Clorox Girls [5] (one of those all-dude bands with "Girls" in their name), punk-punk Complaints [6], and the sassy, garage-y Midnite Snaxxx [7], whose MySpace "sounds like" is "making out with a burrito." What's not to love?
Chiselers Car Show Blowout
Sat/7, 4 p.m., free-$10
Thee Parkside
1600 17th St, SF
Links:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_club
[2] http://www.myspace.com/ramshackleromeos
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_saw
[4] https://holdmyticket.com/mini/mini.php?id=14571
[5] http://www.myspace.com/cloroxgirls
[6] http://www.myspace.com/sfcomplaints
[7] http://www.myspace.com/midnitesnaxxx
[8] http://www.theeparkside.com