Title: Bowling Green: What Other Color Is There?
Author: Staff Writer
Publisher: DRIVE! Magazine
Date: April 2011
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by Automobile
Club of Southern California has announced a major change to the
schedule for the 9th Annual Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion.
Instead of the Friday through Sunday format, the event will now run
Thursday through Saturday. The reasons for the one-day move up are
many, but primarily it was done because people said they wanted to
be with their families on Father's Day. Also, many of the
long-distance attendees wanted to be on the road heading home on
Sunday. Consequently, the event has been moved up a day. The action
is now scheduled for June 16-18 at the historic Beech Bend Raceway
in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Beechbend.com.
If you're interested in Bowling Green history, check out the book
Bowling Green Stock Car Racing by Larry Upton and Jonathan Jeffrey.
Published by Arcadiapublishing.com, it tells a great story with
tons of historic photographs of the early years of racing at Beech
Bend.
Not only is NHRA celebrating 60 years of drag racing this year, but
1951 was also the year that the drag strip opened at Beech Bend.
Back then it was dirt; since then it has become hallowed ground as
one of the oldest surviving drag strips in the U.S. and, of course,
home to one of the best Reunion events on the calendar.
Every year the Reunion honors a number of legendary racers and this
year is no exception. The grand marshal is Bruce Larson, who
enjoyed a long and successful career culminating with an NHRA Funny
Car World Championship title and three years racing for Don
Garlits. Bruce is joined by honorees Dave Boertman, Jack Doyle, Jim
Oddy, Bill Pryor and Tom Raley. This year's Reunion Spotlight
presented by Justice Brothers Car Care Products falls on the
Cluster Busters of Indianapolis. Formed in 1948, the Cluster
Busters Hot Rod Club is still going strong,
Clusterbustershotrodclub.
If you have never been to Beech Bend or a Hot Rod Reunion, this is
your chance to see nostalgia drag racing at its best with more than
400 race cars and almost 2,000 street rods. As they say, it's way
cool.
To learn more about the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum and the
9th Annual Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion go to http:
//museum.nhra.com or call 800.884.6472. You can also visit
nhra.com.
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