Event Coverage 2014 MUST ATTEND SHOWS - from Yokohama to Germany - List them here!

2014

Jan 11 Retro Rewind Cars & Guitars & Fuel Injected Film Festival Dubuque IA
Jan 24-26 Grand National Roadster Show Pomona CA
Feb 2 Bare Bones CC Polar Bear Cruise
March 1 Houston Hellions Hoedown
March 7-9 Detroit World of Wheels Basement
April 4-5 Lonestar Roundup Austin TX
April 12 Hippy Killer Hoedown
April 17-20 Viva Las Vegas
May 2-4 Vintage Torque Fest Dubuque Iowa
May 2-4 Stray Kat Kustoms Dewey OK
May 11 Mothers Day
May 17 Jalopy Showdown Latimore PA
May 16-17 Rust Revival Wayland MO
May 23-24 Kustom Kulture Forever - Germany (formerly Bottrop)
May 23-25 Bourbon Blitzkrieg Run
May 25 Beatersville Louisville KY
June 7 Tin Butchers Scrap Drive Belvidere IL
June 6-7 Hunnert Heads Up Union Grove WI
June 13-15 Hot Rod Reunion KY
June 14 Mods V Rockers Chicago
June 14 Custom Car Revival Indy
June 14-15 LA Roadster Show
June 20-22 Back to the 50's
June 29 Gears and Ears Yorkville IL
June 28-29 Born Free 6
July 11-12 Blue Ribbon Beer Run
July 12 Midnight Mass Detroit
July 18-19 Meltdown Drags Byron
July 25-27 KKOA Salina KS
July 26 Piston Jammers Panty Raid
Aug 1-2 Hot August Nights (this has some HAMB friendly cars, but is a Good Guys type event)
Aug 1-2 Milltown MA
Aug 8-9 Symco Shakedown WI
Aug 11-17 Speed Week Bonneville
Aug 16 Relix Riot Gilmore Auto Museum MI
Aug 16 White Knuckle Scramble - Vintage Mini Bike Racing
Aug 16 HAMB Drags
Aug 23 Cheaters CC Cheaterama Milwaukee WI
Aug 29-30 Davenport Bike Swap and Antique Races
Aug 30-Aug 31 Greaserama
Sept 5-6 Starliner Wichita KS
Sept 12-13 Mississippi Mayhem
Sept 26-28 Rodder's Journal Revival
Oct 3-4 Iron Invasion
Oct 4 Race of Gentlemen
Oct 17-19 Hot Rod Reunion Bakersfield
Oct 18 Jalopyrama MD
SEMA is typically the first week of November or last week of Oct
Yokohama Mooneyes is usually first Sunday in December
Mooneyes Christmas Party is the following weekend

see autorama.com
nsra-usa.com
good-guys.com
for their shows

Also - Billetproof has not announced their dates yet - check billetproof.com for details

If dates are wrong - please let me know and I can change

 

i see you went back to the first weekend in october for the iron invasion. that's the same weekend as the newport hillclimb in central indiana. it draws alot of people from both indiana and illinois.

 

Silent Rick, this is true....
the dates are not set in stone, but we have to weigh the 25 cars that we will lose from Newport Hill Climb versus the thousands of spectators that were lost due to the nationally televised auction held 30 miles away. Mecum is a beast we simply can not compete with.....
When I asked my boss at Mecum about the turnout they had this year, he told me the only problems they had were parking spectators - because they had too many! You may not think the spectators that go to that show go to ours.....but I know MANY that went to Mecum and did not come to our event.

 

is mecum new to the area and that weekend? the pileup never had any trouble attracting people

 

yes - the dates have shifted quite a bit for Mecum....
when I first started that auction was the third weekend in Sept, then it was third weekend in Oct...
now it is second weekend in Oct and they are staying on that date.

 

ok, i'll change my hotel reservations to the first weekend

 

coolstuff, you didn't miss too many. We need to include the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield on Oct 17 -19 and the SEMA show in Vegas in November.

 

I sure wish I got to go to all of these.
Hoping to get my new car "done" enough to get it to torquefest...be there either way...but hopefully have the 53 done, and then actually get to more of these than I did this year, since Ill have a car with windows, wipers, hood...some high class shit this time.
Cant wait for 2014 shows!

 

I'm looking for my next 'new to me' show.
I have been to the HAMB drags (2009,2010,2011), KKOA Salina KS (2009), Riddler in Detroit (2012) and the Round-Up this year. ALL OF THEM ARE FANTASTIC SHOWS, Great entertainment day and night.

I'm looking at the Hunnert Car Heads Up for 2014, but I was wondering aside from the Drag Racing, is there a show, is there good night life (like Congress Street in Austin)?

Other suggestions with-in a 10hr drive from St. Louis are welcomed. Overall I'm looking for HAMB Drags meets Round-Up.

Thanks for the input!

 

I always look forward to this list, thanks John.

 

Ask around and I think you will find a lot of people from St Louis make the trip up to Rust Revival.... the night life there is..... interesting.
I would also humbly suggest you make the trek to Dubuque for the Vintage Torque Fest. We have vintage racing on Saturday night, vintage flat track motorcycle racing on Friday night and a bit during the day on Saturday. Last year we had 20 bands.... There is no shortage of things to do at that show. Ask around to people who have been and they will say the same.

 

April 25 & 25 2014 FE Race & Reunion, Beaver Springs Dragway

http://www.fairlanet.com/FE/

 

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http://www.chopped.com.au/

 

Isn't HAMB Drags normally the 3rd weekend in August...?

 

Yep, same week as Springfield swap so it should be the 16th.



Marcy

 

Whew! Crisis averted.

 

I changed the date for HAMB drags to the correct one - SORRY!

 

Back to the 50's
June 20-22 2014
12,000 pre 64 cars
Minnesota State Fair Grounds
St Paul MN

 

it is already on the list.....

 

August 16 (tentatively) White Knuckle Scramble - Vintage go kart & minibike race - Norway, IL (near Chicago)

I'll have the confirmation next week.

 

NHRA hotrod reunion, bowling green, Kentucky. June 12-14.

I haven't been yet, but I am planning on it this year.

 

It is a great show! And it is on the master list above

 

I looked at the master list at least 5 times. Then after I posted the NHRA dates, looked back up at the list and found it. I'm losing it, I guess.

What goes on on Sunday at the NHRA reunion?

Thanks for putting the list together.

 

One major one that should be on the list is the Rodder's Journal Revival - 9/26-9/28

 

Dan - you are TOTALLY correct!
ADDED!

 

The Gear Jam vintage drags, car show and swap meet in Commerce, Georgia on September 27.
The night before, the city puts on a huge party for it with cruising on the main drag, food vendors, a beer garden and live band.
www.gearjamdrags.com

-Brad

 

More info on the Piston Jammers car club and the Panty Raid Car Show and Overnight party can be found here: http://www.pistonjammers.com

 

Confirmed! August 16 for the Scramble!

 

great thread, Ill have to add all of these to my calendar

 

Maybe interesting for the European Hambers:

Race 61 from 27th to 29th July in Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany

http://www.racesixtyone.com/

Rust'n Dust Jalopy from 18th to 20th July in Teterow, Germany

http://www.rustndustjalopy.de/


And always worth a visit: The Power Big Meet in Västeras, Sweden, from 3rd to 5th July, even though there are not only Hamb friendly cars there...