Right here’s one other nice gallery of photographs from the Mooneyes New Yr’s Social gathering from Grippo! And in case you missed the earlier photographs, we’ve bought a hyperlink for that down under too!
(Phrases and Pictures by Joe Grippo) Most individuals take their yearly holidays within the summertime, not us. My good climate months (Spring, Summer time, and Fall) are for racing and hitting up our many native occasions. We like to flee the cruel northeast winters to hotter locales, primarily to get in some automobile associated actions in lieu of the snow elimination actions that are presently occurring on the Large Grippo Racing Headquarters, right here in Pennsylvania. This yr we bounce in a aircraft and jetted to the West Coast, sunny Southern California to be particular. We got here out per week earlier than the Grand Nationwide Roadster Present, by now you’ve seen in depth protection from Chad, Wickam and Darr of that deal right here on BangShift.
We hit up a bunch of cool occasions and locations main into the GNRS weekend, and I’ll kick off exhibiting that stuff with our day on the Mooneyes New Yr’s Social gathering at Irwindale Raceway. A New Yr’s Social gathering the final week of January, you could ask? Yeah, simply go along with it. The Mooneyes Social gathering is a component Drag Race, half Automotive Present, half Rockabilly/Customized Tradition Way of life gathering, however it’s all enjoyable! I really like automobile occasions with selection, and that’s what precisely we had Irwindale. Automotive show-wise there was the whole lot, wildly painted Lowriders, conventional Scorching Rods, Avenue Machines and Avenue Freaks, Customs from gentle to wild, Vans and all types of Vehicles, Volkswagens, and some Bikes. Some have been neater than others however even the motive force high quality iron was cool. Some highlights for me have been seeing Coby Gewertz’s killer, if not controversial coupe, Saint Christopher, a number of candy tri 5 FORDS, and the pink lowrider ‘70’s El Camino. Too many to decide on a favourite, in reality, I do not know what the automobile depend was, however it was large, we spent quite a lot of our time over on the Drag Race aspect so we would have missed among the automobile present sadly, it was that huge!
Talking of Drag Racing, it wasn’t an enormous turnout, however give me high quality over amount anytime. Numerous Gasser model straight axle creations, some conventional pre-’72 bracket vehicles, a number of rail jobs and altereds, and naturally, Nostalgia Tremendous Inventory Muscle Vehicles. Extra VW’s and drag bikes rounded out the sector. The courses have been loosely organized, and the racing appeared like principally enjoyable runs, with buddies lining up for bragging rights all day. It was incredible. Seeing Ernie the Lawyer’s ’67 Fairlane with nasty huge inch Windsor energy was particularly cool to me. There was a wonderful sounding ’56 Chevy known as “Love Affair, Too”, resplendent with no entrance bumper, fender nicely headers and Middle Strains. It was making some lovely music with large dry hops and insane RPM shifts courtesy of a depraved hand mixer shifter. So badass and simply the tickets for this east solid door fanatic. The racing went all day and my spouse Stacey needed to drag me away from the Burnout field to complete testing the automobile present, and I used to be comfortable she did. A fantastic day.
Plans are underway for the 2025 Mooneyes Social gathering, begin making your preparations early. I extremely suggest attending!
