The rescheduled Gear Jam vintage drags, traditional hot rod n custom show and swap meet is September 28 at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia, with a cruise-in/concert Friday night September 27 the historic downtown area.
Cruisin’ Commerce on Friday Night from 6-10pm, with cruising on the main street, VIP hot rod parking, food tents, a beer garden and live music by Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho Devilles!
Saturday’s event features Race classes for Gasser, Front Engine Dragster, Hot Rod and Muscle Car (1974 and older), with attention paid to the cars looking like they’re from the ‘60s, not modern “Pro” style builds.
Heads-up racing with qualifying in the morning, and then the hard cases run a Quick 8 Elimination for $1,000 per class purse money, while everyone else is paired with the car (in class) closest to your ET for a best 2-out-of-3 shootout eliminations—Everyone gets to race all day, nobody gets put on the trailer, nobody gets their doors blown off, and nobody watches staggered-start racing. It should be fun for everyone, whether you run 7 or 17 seconds!
At the end, we’ll take the class winners and the four fastest non-qualifiers from the field for a final Mr. Eliminator.
Tech cards are $50, and gets the driver, your pit kitty and little grease monkeys in.
Gear Jam Car Show is for traditionally-styled 1966 and older cars, trucks and motorcycles. “Traditionally styled” meaning pastel or monochrome paint jobs and 20-inch Boyd wheels with rubber bands, or Pro-Street Camaros and the like will be in the parking lot.
Show Car entry is $35, and gets the driver, your chick and little grease monkeys in. (Immediate family.) This includes test-n-tune passes during the day.
All other adults, race crew and spectators are $10 each. Kids 12-under free.
Show awards and sponsors are:
Flat-out Bitchin! -- The Sock F'ers cc
Best Paint-- The TW's cc
Best Survivor -- The Cross Members cc
Best Tradtional-- The Iron Lords cc
Trick Truck-- W&H Restoration and Performance
Best Use of Louvers-- Bright Star Hot Rods
Best Engine—US Army
Best Custom—RollFast Customs
Quality Breakage—Bethlehem Steel & Iron
Just Kicks Ass!—The Roadents cc
Best Hot Rod on Cokers—Coker Tire
If your club or shop wants to sponsor a trophy, let me know.
Classes still available are:
Best Race Car
Best Wheelie
Best Interior
Don’t see one you like? Then make one up and we’ll add it!
Swap Meet
We’re anticipating between 175-250 vendors, based on the vendor count for our monthly NE Georgia Swap Meet, put on by us at the same location. We had over 230 vendors for our August swap meet.
Spaces are $25 for all the space you want, and that gets you and a helper in the gate.
Manufacturer’s Midway: $100, for as much space as you need and passes for your crew.
Back-up Girl Contest sponsored by Rich Venza’s FaceBook Back-Up-Girls page. $100 Cash prize
Burn-out contest sponsored by Hot Rod Deluxe Magazine. Prize to be announced.
For more information, go to www.gearjamdrags.com, shoot me an email directly at brad56@windstream.net, or call (706) 424-5035
Cruisin’ Commerce on Friday Night from 6-10pm, with cruising on the main street, VIP hot rod parking, food tents, a beer garden and live music by Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho Devilles!
Saturday’s event features Race classes for Gasser, Front Engine Dragster, Hot Rod and Muscle Car (1974 and older), with attention paid to the cars looking like they’re from the ‘60s, not modern “Pro” style builds.
Heads-up racing with qualifying in the morning, and then the hard cases run a Quick 8 Elimination for $1,000 per class purse money, while everyone else is paired with the car (in class) closest to your ET for a best 2-out-of-3 shootout eliminations—Everyone gets to race all day, nobody gets put on the trailer, nobody gets their doors blown off, and nobody watches staggered-start racing. It should be fun for everyone, whether you run 7 or 17 seconds!
At the end, we’ll take the class winners and the four fastest non-qualifiers from the field for a final Mr. Eliminator.
Tech cards are $50, and gets the driver, your pit kitty and little grease monkeys in.
Gear Jam Car Show is for traditionally-styled 1966 and older cars, trucks and motorcycles. “Traditionally styled” meaning pastel or monochrome paint jobs and 20-inch Boyd wheels with rubber bands, or Pro-Street Camaros and the like will be in the parking lot.
Show Car entry is $35, and gets the driver, your chick and little grease monkeys in. (Immediate family.) This includes test-n-tune passes during the day.
All other adults, race crew and spectators are $10 each. Kids 12-under free.
Show awards and sponsors are:
Flat-out Bitchin! -- The Sock F'ers cc
Best Paint-- The TW's cc
Best Survivor -- The Cross Members cc
Best Tradtional-- The Iron Lords cc
Trick Truck-- W&H Restoration and Performance
Best Use of Louvers-- Bright Star Hot Rods
Best Engine—US Army
Best Custom—RollFast Customs
Quality Breakage—Bethlehem Steel & Iron
Just Kicks Ass!—The Roadents cc
Best Hot Rod on Cokers—Coker Tire
If your club or shop wants to sponsor a trophy, let me know.
Classes still available are:
Best Race Car
Best Wheelie
Best Interior
Don’t see one you like? Then make one up and we’ll add it!
Swap Meet
We’re anticipating between 175-250 vendors, based on the vendor count for our monthly NE Georgia Swap Meet, put on by us at the same location. We had over 230 vendors for our August swap meet.
Spaces are $25 for all the space you want, and that gets you and a helper in the gate.
Manufacturer’s Midway: $100, for as much space as you need and passes for your crew.
Back-up Girl Contest sponsored by Rich Venza’s FaceBook Back-Up-Girls page. $100 Cash prize
Burn-out contest sponsored by Hot Rod Deluxe Magazine. Prize to be announced.
For more information, go to www.gearjamdrags.com, shoot me an email directly at brad56@windstream.net, or call (706) 424-5035
