Saturday, Jan. 29 @4 pm -- NHRA Motorsports Museum

[MotoCreations]

For all of you in SoCal -- this is why you live there -- here are some of the greatest hot rodder gearheads in one place at one time and all bs'ing and having fun.  And it's FREE! (plus free admission to museum and special exhibition of these guys old cars will be presented as well)

If someone goes -- please take pictures!

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Saturday, Jan. 29 @ 4 p.m.

Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by Automobile Club of Southern California

Admission is free and open to the public

Hear tall tales and bench racing exploits from some of the original members of the Low Flyers of Santa Monica - one of hot rodding's earliest and most important car clubs. Join us at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. with moderators Museum Chairman Alex Xydias and Jim Miller, son of Eddie Miller Jr, original Low Flyers member. Stuart Hilborn, Phil Remington, Dick "Magoo" Megugorac, and Bob Wenz will reminisce of their car club days and hot rodding adventures. Admission is free, courtesy of Dan Webb, who recently re-created the Phil Remington Modified!

The Low Flyers of Santa Monica was a very competitive dry lakes racing club that reached prominence in the immediate post-World War II era. An incredible number of auto racing luminaries came from the club including Stu Hilborn, inventor of the fuel injection system that bears his name, and famed cam grinder Jack Engle. Phil Remington, instrumental in the development of the Cobra and Ford GT-40, and Indy 500 winning mechanics Jim Travers and Frank Coon were also members. After winning back-to-back 500s with Bill Vukovich in 1953 and ’54, Travers and Coon formed Traco Racing Engines and were responsible for winning entries for customers such as Roger Penske, Lance Reventlow and Jim Hall. America’s first World Driving Champion Phil Hill once remarked that as a young man growing up in Santa Monica, he was in awe of the Low Flyers.

The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is located at 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Building 3A, Pomona CA, 91768. For more information, contact the Museum at 909-622-2133, or visit http://museum.nhra.com.

[erkishhorde]

Oh, that place. Been there a couple times during the county fair since the museum is on the fair grounds. I guess I don't have much an excuse not to go. I was gonna go look at boobies but I guess I can put that off.

Because Erik can't read and thought it was free any day, he went today since his dad will likely have the camera on Saturday and Erik was passing by anyway. I ended up paying the $8 to go in and took pictures for almost 2 hours straight. I don't think the lady liked how many pictures I was taking either. Hell, I paid my $8 and now I'm gonna spread it aaaaaall over the internets, dammit! I almost tripped into a car on the way out because I wasn't used to not looking through the viewfinder. I'll post up the pics that I took and you can tell me if you want any more specific pics for when I go back on Saturday.

[erkishhorde]

Album Link
Sploot

Here's a few of the pics. If you want any BIG pics, lemme know and I can email. Also, if you see anything interesting and want a better pic of something let me know and I'll take it on Saturday.

[MotoCreations]

This is Donnie's old "Eddie Miller Lakester" -- probably best engineered early salt flats racer built.  Won it's class this past year at Pebble Beach.  Donnie got into the 300mph club this past year as well.  Same group of people I posted my Bonneville pictures of from three years ago -- friends wife went @276mph on her first past in the big streamliner.  Donnie has some more cool stuff hidden away in the old buildings -- it's literally a hoarders nest of all the early Muroc/B'ville cars and SprintCar racers.  Even a diehard gearhead like myself finds something new each time I go through -- it is literally the archive for SoCal racing as it was.  Donnie's dad bought all the old cars when they were old dead racecars that nobody wanted anymore... glad someone kept them for us decades later to rediscover.

One of these years I need to dig out all the build pictures of Cadzilla that I took during the build process.  Massive thrash job to build this car for ZZTop due to deadlines.  Erickson who designed it was with Cadillac at the time -- later went on to do the new Mustang and a few other Detroit cars.  Gray Baskerville (Mr FlipFlop) was there almost daily taking pictures but most ended up in Hot Rod magazine and the rest were lost.

For those that go this weekend to the event -- there are some great old timers there that I know very well -- it's whom got me somewhat into this industry.  Old guys like Phil Remington are walking history: Muroc racer/hotrodder; Scrarab racecars; Cobra (shelby); AAR (Dan Gurney)  -- he is probably one of the be fabricators ever in SoCal history.  You will never hear those words from him though.

[erkishhorde]

Mmm... Got called in to help out my old teacher tomorrow morning. Not sure if I'll make it to the event now.

[Privateer]

I was gonna go look at boobies but I guess I can put that off.

I missed the link to these pictures.

[erkishhorde]

I missed the link to these pictures.

The boobies or the cars?
The cars link is the word "sploot"

Album Link
Sploot

I ended up not making it back until just a few minutes ago so I didn't go to the event.