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 17th through Sunday October 20th, 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
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!!
The weather was great, the cars were incredible and everyone was awesome!!
We were there at Vendor’s Row with Nitro Militia through the
event offering rockabilly clothing, greaser clothes, motorsport racing
apparel that include men’s t-shirts and women’s v-shirts as well as flex
fit hats, Fathead wall decals.
