Nitro Revival 2021: Cacklefest, Heroes, And Extra! All Issues Scorching Rod, Nitro, And Gasser Being Celebrated At Irwindale
For those who like all issues nitro, scorching rod, gasser, and extra, then test this out!
(Pictures by Wes Allison) The Nitro Revival at Irwindale is what has been described as a museum of the Golden Age of Drag Racing come to life, and with all these wonderful automobiles on-site there isn’t any doubt that it’s all that and far more. We’re speaking Gasoline Altereds, Entrance Engine nitro-burning dragsters, Gassers, Humorous Automobiles, and a lot extra. But it surely isn’t simply in regards to the automobiles, it’s additionally in regards to the individuals who drove them, tuned them, and constructed them. The variety of iconic automobiles pales solely to the variety of iconic folks that had been on website speaking to the followers and telling tales from the nice previous days. This occasion is rad, plain and easy and Steve Gibbs actually hit a house run when he determined to place this complete occasion collectively.
“Nitro Revival brings again the sights and sounds of the early days of scorching rodding,” Gibbs enthused, “and it lets followers expertise a drag racing museum come to life, not solely by way of the autos themselves, however by way of the presence of a lot of those that constructed, maintained and drove these automobiles at tracks like the unique Irwindale Raceway and two San Gabriel Drag Strips.”
For some, the assemblage of nitro powered race automobiles, corresponding to “Pure Hell,” the title of the legendary gasoline altered owned by Wealthy Guasco, the Fitzgerald Household “Pure Heaven,” Ron Hope’s “Rat Lure,” and Randy Bradfords’s Fiat, will rekindle a picture of the golden period of drag racing. Throw within the Hough household’s “Nanook,” the “Winged Specific” made well-known by the late Willie Borsch and Troy Glenn’s “Over the Hill Gang” entry, and also you would possibly consider you’re again within the ‘60s.”
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