Randy Bradford and Ron Hope put on a great AA/FA exhibition on Saturday and Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

To everyone's delight, Mike Boyd also made some passes in the new Winged Express.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Read was in the seat of the now running (blown fuel) and slowly being restored 15 oz Coupe.

 

 

 

Darrell Waters A-Fuel

 

Baby Huey NE-1

 

 

Brian Darcy Jr. Fuel

 

A-Fuel runner-up Claude Lavoie.

 

 

Drew Mraz

 

 

Don't know much about this slick Alterd but we know it came all the way from Great Britain and the crew guys were having too much fun.

 

 

On one of his passes the driver almost left some Englan paint on a Bakersfield wall.

 

No shortage of back-up girls.

 

This gal obviously picked the wrong shoes to back somebody up in.

 

 

 

Bucky Austin's back-up girl (she did it from on top got the most attention. DUH.

 

Jess Tyree used his years of experience to dodge a bullet on this leave gone bad.

 

 

 

 

Second generation driver Jim Scott Jr.

 

Jr. Fuel 'B' winner John Rasmussen.

 

Kin Bates had a rare bad outing in A-Fuel.

 

Larry Ofrea of Valley Head Service in his A/Gas '57.

 

Lisa Lavoie getting more laps in her A-Fuel car.

 

Mark McCormick in his Jr. Fuel 'B' entry.

 

Nick Norton

 

 

Rick McDonald

 

Jr. Fuel 'A' winner Scott Parks.

 

 

Artsy crafty coupe by Pete Gemar.

 

 

 

On Saturday the Standard 1320 Group gathered for their annual photo. The group gets bigger every year and there are many who were in attendance who were unable to make the shoot.

 

The oldest car on the grounds was the legendary Bean Bandits circa 1953.

 

WDIFL photog, Bob Brown

 

Bucky Austin's crew had a major thrash to get ready for the final.

George "The Bushmaster" Schreiber was sporting his Connie Swingle memorial T-shirt.

A very ill John Buttera was on hand with the help of his son-in-law, Ron Capp. John had to see the last front engine dragster he ever built (BankAmericar) one more time.

Cindy Gibbs and Gas Rhonda

Here's about 300 years worth of drag racing history... Neil Leffler, Mike Kuhl, Bobby Hightower and Wayne King.

 

Chassis builder - fabricator and Tom Ivo with the beautiful Showboat replication that rolled out of Dyda's shop last month.

Gary Edwards and Rick Stewart who was having a ball during his weekend off from the not so fun Big Show circuit.

 

Among the legions of vendors on had was Orah Mae and Robin Millar and all their great DRAGcartoons collectibles.

 

Who reads DRAGcartoons? Why Evelyn Fuller of course.

Don Prudhomme was all over the place and by all accounts in a great mood. Hummmmm

Ron Capps admires the Assassin cacklecar.

Pat and Don

Don Ewald, Fred Young, Ronnie Hampshire, Jeep Hampshire and Pete Starrett.

One of the more popular pit spots on Saturday was the Tommy Ivo table where he was on hand to sign everyone of the over 1000 free Ivo posters given out.

Ivo in a different environment with Linda Vaughan.

 

There was no shortage of carnage throughout the pits.

 

Without a doubt the most bizarre mode of transportation on the grounds was this slightly oversized shopping cart.

 

 

 

Runner up was this not so little red wagon.

 

The legendary Famoso push road.

 

John Ewald spent much of the weekend getting autographs on this old dragster nose that will be raffled off for charity.

 

Wayne King and Tom McEwen are just two of the over 200 autographs on the nose and the list is more than impressive.

 

Download all the signatures on the dragster nose collected at the 2007 CHRR

 

Last but not least, the "We Had The Most Fun" award went to Anita "I crash golf carts" Smith and Pat "Ma" Green.

 

Eliminations - Top Fuel Round Two - Finals

1st Qualifying Session - Friday - Saturday

2nd Qualifying Session - Saturday

Funny Car - All Winners

Randy Walls Fire

 

 

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