{"id":42962,"date":"2025-11-07T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42962\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:17:08","slug":"eighth-annual-wings-and-wheels-event-will-showcase-history-and-horsepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42962\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth annual Wings and Wheels event will showcase history and horsepower"},"content":{"rendered":"

The eighth annual Wings and Wheels event is set to take place this weekend at the Minter Field Air Museum, located just a few miles north of Bakersfield off Lerdo Highway and Highway 99. The event, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. promises a captivating display of historic aircraft and vehicles, including Shafter’s first fire truck, a 1940-41 GMC.<\/p>\n

Ron Pierce, a representative at the museum, highlighted the unique features of the vehicles on display. “This is a Jeep. It was a ‘Follow Me’ Jeep. It was yellow, and said that on the back of it, ‘follow me’ to bring airplanes into where they wanted to park,” he explained. The Jeep, dating back to the last part of World War II, features a headlight that can be turned up to illuminate the engine, a feature Pierce demonstrated.<\/p>\n

\"19401940 “Follow Me” Jeep that will be displayed at the 8th Annual Wings N Wheels event. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

In addition to the vehicles, the event will showcase a 650-horsepower Mazda-powered Harmon Rocket, known for its world record climb to 10,000 feet in just one minute and 40 seconds. The aircraft, along with a BT-13 that trained over 11,000 cadets during World War II, will be on display.<\/p>\n

Pierce encouraged attendees to visit the event to help preserve the history of Kern County and Minter Field’s contributions to World War II. <\/p>\n

For more information on tickets and event details, visit the Minter Field Air Museum website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eighth annual Wings and Wheels event is set to take place this weekend at the Minter Field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-42962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}