NITRO REVIVAL IRWINDALE DRAGSTRIP 3

Roger Rohrdanz December 30, 2022 All Feature Vehicles

The sights and sounds of the early days of hot rodding hot rodding

Organized Drag Racing began in the 1940’s. For the most part the front-engine Top Fuel dragsters at this event are from the 1950’s and 1960’s. The Altereds could be vintage ‘40’s thru ‘70’s. All featured here are regularly racing on the drag strip!!

“Nitro Revival 3 brings back the sights and sounds of the early days of hot rodding,” said the event’s founder, former NHRA Competition Director Steve Gibbs, “but it also serves as a reunion for racers from that San Gabriel Raceway and Irwindale Dragstrip and it lets fans experience a drag racing museum come to life.”

After the nitro cars make their pass down the track, they come back the return road, still cackling in front of the grandstands.
Smell the nitro. Hear the thunder!

The event honored the heritage of Hot Rods and Drag Racing, Nitro Revival 3 included a wide variety of exhibition runs, continuous rolling push starts of historic vehicles that were emblematic of the era, static displays, burnouts, cackle car push starts, and our always popular Hot Rod Hangout. The huge Hot Rod show ended with a climactic “Line of Fire”, the simultaneous “fire-up” of Nitro burning vintage dragsters and altereds that has become the dramatic traditional finale.

Thanks for the show!