When you get a call from legendary drag racer Rick Guasco inviting you to the annual 63rd March Meet sponsored by Good Vibrations Motorsports, you go. Rich has been campaigning his iconic AA/Fuel Altered ‘Pure Hell’ since 1963. The March Meet is actually a little older and was first convened at Famoso Dragstrip (Bakersfield) as the U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships in 1959.

There were nine roadsters in contention for the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Award and a staggering 13 vehicles entered for the Al Slonaker Memorial Award. ARP Racing Products sponsors both awards and each comes with a substantial trophy and a cash prize of $12,500 as well as the prestige of winning what has become the world’s most significant custom car and hot rod show—‘The Grand Daddy of Them All.’

The RPM Nationals Flathead Drags is one of our favorite events. Billed as a drag race for pre-1936 flathead V-8 and 4-cylinder hot rods and racecars, it’s held at Santa Margarita Ranch 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

Despite another year of rain, many racers braved the conditions and thanks to the SCTA-BNI and their amazing team of volunteers managed to set 26 new records during Bonneville Speed Week.

Launched in 2011 by husband and wife Mirella and Rodrigo Huelsmann and their friend Sonia Pimentel the Santa Catarina Custom Show is the biggest on the Brazilian calendar.

On July 2, 1950, partners CJ Hart, Creighton Hunter and Frank Stilwell opened the world’s first commercial Dragstrip in Santa Ana, California—now, John Wayne International Airport.

Usually held in the middle of July, and now in its 12th year, Dragstalgia is Europe’s number one nostalgia drag racing event attracting more than 300 racecars, motorcycles and attractions.

Despite a wet n’ wild storm blowing through and closing the event a day early, the May ’23 SCTA season opener promised clear blue skies, a rock hard racing surface and falling records.

The third annual RPM Barona Drags was a great success as the So-Cal sun shone on this Mecca of 1/8-mile, old-school drags.

Could the second TROG Flabob Airport Drags be as good as the first? You be the judge but it was pretty darn close with close to 200 traditional style hot rods dragon’ it out over the 1/8-mile.

ARP Racing Products has stepped up to sponsor both the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Award (AMBR) and the Al Slonaker Memorial Award at the Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS). With each award comes a substantial trophy, a cash prize of $12,500 and the prestige of winning what has become the world’s most significant custom car and hot rod show—’The Grand Daddy of Them All.’

The PPIHC is one of the most difficult races to conquer, the 12.42 miles course has 156 turns and some of the most dangerous hairpins in motorsports. The race begins at over 9300 feet and ends at 14,115 feet, which earns its slogan, “the race to the clouds”.

The buzz around Los Angeles was palpable. Something akin to the release of a long awaited new movie or the arrival of El Nino winds or even the ‘Big One’ that everybody is anticipating.

The RPM Nationals Flathead Drags is one of our favorite events. Billed as a drag race for pre-1936 flathead V-8 and 4-cylinder hot rods and racecars, it’s held at Santa Margarita Ranch 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

The annual Rømø Motor Festival was not what I expected. I was expecting a smallish, back-door beach race with maybe a couple hundred participants. Instead, there were in excess of 20,000, some said maybe as many as 30,000 people there for what is essentially a one-day affair.

Despite ‘Boiling Green’s’ hot n’ humid weather the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion has always been a great event with fast and furious ‘track-tion’ and a massive car show and swap meet.

They came from near and far… And why did they come? For the RPM Barona Drags, of course.

The course is only 1.3 miles long and there’s only one mile in which to stop so attaining speeds in excess of 300 mph and stopping is quite an achievement especially when the surface is dusty clay and silt and not measurably sticky asphalt.

The O’Reilly Auto Parts Sacramento Autorama is a very different show from its southern brother the Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) but both got their start in the Bay Area 70-plus years ago in 1950.

We’ve been waiting for the 64th annual Good Vibrations March Meet since 2020 and despite inclement weather forecasts the event proved to be everything we hoped it would be.