{"id":505727,"date":"2026-10-23T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:28:07","slug":"california-hot-rod-reunion-draws-global-fans-for-three-days-of-drag-racing-at-famoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505727\/","title":{"rendered":"California Hot Rod Reunion draws global fans for three days of drag racing at Famoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racing fans from around the world, including Australia, Germany and France, are gathering at Famoso Dragstrip for the <a href=\"https:\/\/famosodragstrip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Hot Rod Reunion,<\/a> a three-day event featuring multiple drag races and a weekend of loud, fast reunions.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 34th year, the California Hot Rod Reunion is billed as a three-day stretch of \u201cnon-stop action, non-stop racing and non-stop fun\u201d at the Famoso Dragstrip.<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Blake Bowser described the event as a chance for racers, fans and officials to reconnect and reflect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a big get-together of all legendary racers, and fans, and everybody involved, officials, and all that. Get together and just reminisce over what took place over the year and, obviously, remember those we\u2019ve lost this year,\u201d Bowser said.<\/p>\n<p>The racing includes high speeds, particularly in the nitro classes. An Orange County couple is competing with Eily Stafford in Nitro Funny Car and James Day in Nitro Fuel Altered, a class that can be extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere really is only a select few of psychopaths that drive these cars and that\u2019s what makes it fun. It\u2019s a man\u2019s ride, it\u2019s tough. You never know what this thing is going to do. It\u2019s going to go left, right, up, down, backwards. It might go over the guard rail and it\u2019s all on me,\u201d Day said.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the racing, organizers say the weekend also includes shopping, entertainment and time to visit with other fans and competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s three days of solid drag racing, shopping, entertainment, visiting, reminiscing, the whole thing. So, we\u2019re going to be here all three days and looking forward to it,\u201d Bowser said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing fans from around the world, including Australia, Germany and France, are gathering at Famoso Dragstrip for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-505727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505727","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=505727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}