Sarah and I went with the ACE crew to ATCO today to test and tune the alcohol-burning, 383 powered altered. Although it was a bit cold and windy, we had a great time. The car has only a handful of passes, and as soon as we figure out why it wants to make a right turn out of the hole, we can see what it will run. So far it has been in the 8's, but today we could only manage low 9's.
The “Twilight Cruise” is run by the Cal-Rods Car Club on behalf of the NHRA Museum, and they do a super job! All 1970 and earlier rods, customs, classics, and muscle cars are invited to join in the Museum parking lot at Fairplex from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Twilight Cruise admission is free, and all in attendance may visit the Museum at no charge. So, we drove out to Pamona on Wednesday evening and looked at all the neat stuff in the museum. There was almost too much to look at, you could spend all day looking at the historic cars and photos.
As we made our way through the valley, we stopped in Burbank at the famous Hollywood Hotrods. There we met with another east coast car gal from Piscataway NJ who now works at the shop, and even some car fanatics from europe. The owner and designer/fabricator Troy Ladd was kind enough to come and talk to us for a while.
Well, we are finally back from the great state of California. The family vacation this year was sprinkled with hot rods and California car culture all throughout the week. We flew in to LAX on Friday morning, and on Saturday morning we decided to take full advantage of our east coast time clocks, get up early, and check out the Donut Derelicts in Huntington Beach. They hold a cruise every Saturday at the Adams Ave Donut shop from 6-9 AM (yes, that's in the morning) and there were some very cool rides there. I was mostly interested in the traditional style hot rods and surf wagons, although there was a great display of muscle cars as well. What a great start to the vacation!
