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The California Hot Rod Reunion. Received a nice bundle of pics from Mike Knittle who wrote: Hi Mart, these are from the California Hot Rod Reunion . The event was held at the Famoso Drag Strip outside of Bakersfield, Ca. It is one of the oldest remaining drag strips in Ca. and it has tons of history there. The date of the event was October 6,7,8, 2000. It's an NHRA event that focuses on the history of hotrodding. Great old pictures and stories from the people who lived it. Nostalgia dragsters(front engine), A-gas racers, etc.. run all day long. Hotrodders do what they do all day long at the end of the track. Drink, lie, drink, swap stories, drink..... --oooOOOooo--- Thanks, Mike, Lets see the pics......Mart.

Stop Press!. I just added a couple more pics at the bottom courtesy of Mike Bishop......Mart.

Got some cool pics you'd like to share? mail me.

Now this I like.. '27T, Low Lowboy style.3 Carb Chevy(?) motor, Duvall Style screen, 32 grill shell, skinny cross (bias) ply tyres, and an undropped early ford beam out front. A style fairly popular in the UK because if you can find a beam axle, you can wing the rest and get the style without any other original parts..

Timeless 40 Ford Coupe dropped low over red steelies with caps and rings.

Chevy powered A Coupe found a bit of shade to park in. Gotta get me some of those Olds taillights..

Er, throw me a bone here.. The cab looks like 39/40(41?) to me, but surely those rear fenders are post war. A little bit of mix'n'match, gets the job done. May just be a case of using what yer got.

This well known, distinctive truck belongs to the well known and distinctive H.A.M.B'er that goes by the name of Shag.

Lineup of rear ends. Variety of wheel treatments on display in this little scene. (Very cool)Slicks on hubcapless steels, Wide Whites on steels with caps and rings; Barely visible whites covered by full custom skirts, and wide whites with full wheel trims on the truck. Nobody appears to have gone the Boyd's billet route for some reason..

Kool, kool, kool, kool...

56F100 is well known.

This deuce 5 window sports one of those rarely seen raised tops. Every Hot Rodders dream, an unmolested stock bodied early Ford.

can you see yourself?

I've seen the A Pick-em-up before, but I'm sorry I dont know the name of the owner.

Ok, I know who these are, it's Mike, who we have to thank for the pics, and his dad in the old man's 32 hiboy. Mike keeps badgering him to lose the shiny bits but Pops is happy with the street rod look.

Stop Press! Mike Bishop dropped me these pics of a couple of Kent Fuller built cars that were featured at the CHRR.

Mike wrote: "I'm attaching a couple of pictures of two Fuller cars--the "Magicar" and the "Vagabond"--on their trailers at the In-N-Out Burger in Bakersfield following the CHRR on Sunday evening. The first shot will give you an indication of why Fuller's cars were and are so popular; no one built dragsters as handsome as Kent's cars. In the second shot both cars are cackling away on nitro! In-N-Out loved it! They've ordered large colored prints of the incident to hang in their restaurants!"

Thanks for the extra pics, Mike, You cant explain that sound to anyone who hasn't heard top fuellers.