NHRA

  The NMCA West 3rd Annual Street Car Nationals was held March 28-30, 2014 at the Fontana Dragway.  This is the first major event to be held at the Fontana drag strip since it reopened the end of February 2014. Sunday morning the event opened at 8:00 a.m. with Chapel Service Read More

The inaugural 1959 March Meet was uniquely able to attract a racer from outside California pulling in a young Don Garlits from Florida.  March Meet has grown to become a worldwide attraction as the 56th version hosted teams from New Zealand, Norway, and Canada as well as from Read More

22ND CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION, FAMOSO RACEWAY, Oct. 18-20, 2013 Sunday Racing It’s amazing to see what amounts to flat open land around the Famoso dragstrip transform into a small “city” during Hot Rod Reunion.  The population of that 3-day “city” Read More

40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST DRAG RACE AT LIONS, December 1, 2012, NHRA Museum, Pomona, CA It was a damp, dreary, dark, chilly day:  December 2, 1972, the last drag race at Lions Drag Strip, Long Beach, CA. It was a damp, dreary, dark, chilly day:  December 1, 2012, the 40th Read More