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From 1957 until 1971, there was also a separate "America's Best Competition Car Award" presented at the show. [19] In 1974, the GNRS created an additional award to recognize the best non-roadster entry: the Al Slonaker Memorial Award. The award is open to all types of vehicles, Rods, Customs, Street Machines, Lowriders, VW's, and Trucks. [5]
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a governing body which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world.
Wells was a partner with Ray Brock in Rod Action, a street-rod publishing venture, and set up the NSRA headquarters office in the magazine's business suite. [ 2 ] By 1973, Wells had set up thirty volunteer state representatives who advised the NSRA headquarters of regulatory developments, and also engaged with local officials and attended ...
From coast to coast, the top competitors from N. America and Europe compete at high speeds in street legal cars, on all types of drive-able surfaces. Teams from Subaru Rally Team, Team O'Neil Motorsports, Honda Performance Development, and Dirt Fish compete alongside the fastest privateers like Phoenix Project (phxpjt.com) and McKenna Motorsports.
Looking for picks in Texas, the guys see a sign for Gilley's Club, the honky-tonk club made famous in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy. Soon they are face-to-face with country music superstar Mickey Gilley himself who has a warehouse jam-packed with rare Gilley's memorabilia like a poster, neon beer sign, beer cans, mudflaps , mugs, and snakeskin ...
The first Detroit Autorama was held at the University of Detroit Memorial Building on January 31 and February 1, 1953. [7] It featured only 40 cars, and was hosted by members of the Michigan Hot Rod Association (MHRA), which was created only a year before to "organize small local clubs into one unified body that could raise the money needed to pull drag racing off the streets and into a safe ...
The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is an auto racing sanctioning body in the United States, founded in 1953 by John Marcum. A subsidiary of NASCAR since 2018, [ 1 ] the current president of ARCA is Ron Drager , who took over the position in 1996 following the death of Bob Loga . [ 2 ]
Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile Club, Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New Jersey, and others. [6] The Automobile Club of Buffalo joined in 1903. [7] Winthrop E. Scarritt was its first president. [4] One of the first things the organization advocated for was the building of a cross-country highway. [8]