23rd Annual California Hot Rod Reunion - Auto Club Famoso Raceway

Nitro Head with the Poachers Front Engine Top Fuel Dragster and the full line of Nitro Head Apparel will be at the 23rd Annual California Hot Rod Reunion in 2 weeks!! Come and experience the spectacle of Nostalgia drag racing, at the famed Famoso Drag Strip.

23rd Annual California Hot Rod Reunion

Friday October 17^th through Sunday October 20^th, 2014
Auto Club Famoso Raceway
33559 Famoso Road
McFarland, California

The Nitro Militia Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car will join us at this year’s CHRR sporting new Nitro Head graphics!

Nitro Militia Racing is a Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Race team based out of Edmonton Alberta Canada. The Nitro Militia Funny Car has recently been showcased on Nitro FFC Canada, story, Here is the Nitro Militia Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car in March of this year.

Come see the beautifully restored race cars from the 60”s & 70”s and experience the sounds and sites of the ever growing Cacklefest Saturday night under the lights.  Come visit The Nitro Head Team and vending trailer in vendor row.  Get one of the new limited addition Nitro Head/Nitro Militia Tee Shirts a long with our other Nitro Head products.  We have a huge selection of men’s, women’s and children’s tees in all sizes, hoodies, flex fit and flat bill hats, nostalgia accessories,  custom imaged aluminum trailer hitch covers and so much more! This year Nitro Head would like to offer our customers special deals on most of our standard Tee Shirts.  Buy one tee and the regular price and get the second one at $10 for Youth through XL. We also have great discounts on our 2XL’s through 4XL’s. In addition, we will be offering a 15% Coupons for online purchases at our website and plenty of specials and discounts at the event.

Oh My! The Automobile Club of Southern California is presenting the 23rd Annual California Hot Rod Reunion which means quarter-mile nostalgia drag racing is coming up fast. Be there, and you will see Hot Rods, Nostalgia Dragsters & Funny Cars. It features an ‘Honoree Reception’ on Friday night at the Doubletree hotel with an incredible car show, a huge swap meet, auto club meet and greets, Cacklefest, a Vendor Midway and just a fun packed weekend for every hot rod and top fuel enthusiast.

Cacklefest would not miss this event!!

How the California Hot Rod Reunion/CHRR Cacklefest came to be… When the CHRR first started, there were nine beautifully restored famed front engine top fuel dragsters which competed in the 60’s and early 70’s on race tracks across the county like the famed Famoso Drag Strip. These amazing cars were lined up behind the pit side grandstands called "Memory Lane." Over the years many more of these unbelievable machines have been found and restored.  In 1999, with the assistance of Bill Pits and his beautifully restored Magicar, and the other eight restored dragsters, the "Twilight Memorial" was created.  Bill Pitts thought it would be great to hear, and see these restored race cars running.  Hence the Cacklefest begun the cars would be loaded with Nitro and statically started.  The Cacklefest has evolved over years to include over 80 of these beautifully restored race cars that now push start down the return road to give the fans a dose of history.

Cacklefest at the CHRR 2013

It was after that first "Twilight Memorial" CHRR starting line presentation, that the idea began to surface about "rapid fire" push starting a bunch of vintage fuel cars, like the old days of Famoso, as a feature of the 2000 CHRR. It was so tentative that we did not even announce it in pre event promo. When I began to take stock of the existing cars, capable of being push started, there appeared to be about 6 to 8 realistic possibilities, a few of which were "ready to go" (Chrisman, Kuhl & Olson, & G-B-P) Bill Pitts had to put a clutch in his car, and during this period. The Vagabond could be fired, but was not capable of being push started. The Steinegger and Eshenbaugh car was a pleasant surprise and emerged unannounced, but I believe it was ready to go all along.

Anyway, when I told Greg that it looked like I could probably put 6 to 8 cars on the track, cackling all at once, he said something to the effect, "we'll have a regular Cacklefest". Little did I know, or appreciate at the time, what Greg's simple play on words would result in. – www.cacklefest.com

Some History of the Poachers ‘Cacklecar’

As well as all the amazing hot rods, funny cars, dragsters and other fanatic favorites, there are golf cart rentals, a motorhome/camping area, and even a parade.

The 2014 Grand Marshal will be Mike Dunn and the Honorees are Bob Brooks, the "Glass Slipper Team" of Cortopassi Brothers & Butler, Hugh Tucker, Dennis Varni and Sid Waterman.

It’s going to be some fun, do not miss this!!