Dragstalgia 2023

[akku]

I went to Dragstalgia on the Saturday which is normally a good day to go with plenty of track action and a bit less general public,however there was a lot of rain... So I took a lot of static car pics and headed off when it became a monsoon.

its a lifestyle event too so you have to expect the whole rockabilly thing







Then the tent with the cool old customs



















Show and shine area had some cool rides

[akku]

A few more hot rods and so on






















Moving on to the pits...






















I loved this Pontiac wagon...










And the Willys are wonderful things




















This A40 is cute







As is this one

[akku]

My favourite shot of the day




But some cars being kept indoors...




because the weather is like this...




So a wander back to the Drag Racing Hall of Fame tent


























And then a mosey through the camping and public car parking and so on



























































and off home...

[grizz]

It could be my imagination, but a lot of older style vans and paint jobs out getting used fully.

And a a lot of square body Chevy trucks as well.

Some very nice looking stuff there.

[HoTWire]

Good stuff akku , shame about the weather, saw some footage and it looked to be torrential at times, but racing did at least get back under way later.

Patinated Vette for me please (still fixing up the new posting tool to let us do image things easier so can't embed that just yet).

Love seeing boogie vans increasing in usage it seems.

[akku]

Jul 13, 2023 8:38:20 GMT HoTWire said:

Patinated Vette for me please (still fixing up the new posting tool to let us do image things easier so can't embed that just yet).

Yeah an image tool that doesn't load the images in a random order would be great please...

I think that Vette is one which caused some fun on one of the forums 10+ years ago. Some young lad posts that he has inherrited a Vette off his deceased grandfather and wants to know about how to recommission it and everyone called him a troll and a dreamer when he said it was a C1.

And there it is.

[HoTWire]

akku said:



about an hour ago HoTWire said:

Patinated Vette for me please (still fixing up the new posting tool to let us do image things easier so can't embed that just yet).

 

That I've got sorted.  I want to add a little thing that if you paste the url of an image it will automatically make it display the image. Also tempted that if it isn't on the RR it will upload to our image store, so link rot is averted for the future.

That story on the C1 is amazing, I can imagine feathers were ruffled.  Glad it kept the look.

[classiclineuk]

It was an excellent weekend once the rain cleared up. Track was up and running by 4pm Saturday and racing went on till almost 9pm.

[braaap]

Some nice cars there, thanks for sharing.

What are the two same pickups in the middle of this photo?

Jul 13, 2023 8:14:01 GMT akku said:

[DarrenW]

I spend a lot of time at Santa Pod, it can be a very bleak place when the weather's bad! I hope it's not like that when I'm there for Bug Jam next week...

Great photos.

[horrido]

Cool pics, thanks for that.

[calecosse]

We went on the Sunday and For a change picked the right day for the weather, so much so I didn't take many pictures as I was enjoying the racing too much. As long as the weather holds up dragstalgia is one of my favourite events of the year.