VOLUME 161, ISSUE 6 JUNE 2012

Just a couple of weeks left until our infamous Car Show celebrating 60 years of rodding and racing. Just a reminder that our generaal membership meeting has been moved ahead by one week. Meeting is schedule for the June 5th, same time, same place. Everyone get ready for the show.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Al White and his family due to the loss of his mother, and to “Fast” Eddie Salvatore and Karl Grossman dealing with the illness of their children.

The following is a Casting Call for the movie in production regarding The Snake and Mongoose.

Got some spare time on your hands and want a shot at being in a drag racing movie?
Carol Grant Casting is currently seeking non-union background extras for a feature film that will be shooting at Auto Club Famoso Raceway from Monday through May 24. The film — “Snake & Mongoose, The Movie” — is a period piece that takes place in California during the 1970s. It’s an untold story of how two drag racers, Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen, changed the face of sports and ultimately became the most famous rivalry in racing history.
Producers are also looking for pre 1972 cars — pickups, station wagons and muscle cars — for pit scenes Tuesday and Wednesday. Anyone with period-correct cars are welcome to be in the pits.
 
CASTING CALL
The following roles are being casted for the film, “Snake & Mongoose, The Movie,” which is be shooting Monday-May 24 at Auto Club Famosa Raceway:
Kissing couples: 18-25 years old
Boy: 9-14 years old
Race starter: Male early 20s-50
Pit crew guys: Male, late 20s-early 40s
Racing fans: 18-60 years old
Hot groupies: Female, 18-early 40s
Visit famosoraceway.com to apply.
Pay is $64 for eight hours.

http://collider.com/snake-and-mongoose-movie/87610/

We have an exciting year ahead of us, and hope that everyone will participate. We are proud to celebrate 60 years of rodding and racing, but even more the giving back to our community. So, get your ride out, pump up the tires, change the oil and join us for an exciting year. Remember meeting is bumped up a week to June 5th.

Just a few scheduled events at this time:

Jun 2 – Bob’s Big Boy celebrating our 60th year
Jun 10 – Johnny Carson Show
Jul 28 – Downtown Burbank Car Show

Aug 25 – NHRA Museum Dinner for 60th Year
HAVE FUN! Frank Nay

MORO BAY CAR SHOW MEETS THE ROAD KINGS

The Cruisin’ Morro Bay Car Show featured 500 classic cars, and street rods cruising through the streets, and up the Central Coast, Showing off their chromed and polished splendor. The cars cruised up the coast for lunch, and then made a nighttime cruise through the streets of Morro Bay. There were two show-and-shine events, where fans got an up-close look at the cars. Happy Crusin’

NICE SIGNAGE BOYS!

SURE IT’S A FARMSTAND… CHECK PHOTO BELOW

TASTING THE GRAPE AGAIN… AND AGAIN…. AND AGAIN….

JUST WETTING THEIR WHISTLES

FINALLY THE FOOD KINGS HAVE ARRIVED!

May Drag Race Report
 
   Hi Gang, no time for a lot of details, but after a couple of great test sessions I went to The West Coast Hot Rod Assoc. Spring Nationals. The following is a quote from timingtower.com
 
       In A/Gas Al White was both number 1 qualifier and class winner. White won the final at the starting line with an.024 reaction time to Perkins .103. White finished with an e.t. of 7.65 @ 185 mph to a break out 7.57 e.t. @ 182 mph for Perkins.White Ran the number on the button 7.60 to take the top e.t. package of the Race.
     
Thanks for your support and kind thoughts.   Al White…..   
thanks Sue, thanks Stan and Sharron

Jack Beckman raced to his first Funny Car victory of the season Sunday at the Dollar General NHRA Summernationals at Heartland Park Topeka.
David Grubnic (Top Fuel) and Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) also were winners at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.
Beckman used a quicker reaction time to defeat teammate Ron Capps in the final round with a performance of 4.158 seconds at 303.09 mph in his Valvoline/NextGen Dodge Charger. Capps’ NAPA Auto Parts Charger posted a quicker but losing performance of 4.107 at 304.39.

Jack Beckman
Following the Las Vegas event in early April, Beckman and Capps switched cars and crews within their Don Schumacher Racing organization. Since then, Capps has been to four consecutive finals, and Beckman has struggled a bit, posting one DNQ, a first-round loss and two second-round losses.
“It’s a big win for us,” Beckman said. “We’re right back in the hunt. So much has transpired since Las Vegas. We switched cars, we switched trailers, and we switched teams. It’s great to know that we have a car that we can win with again. That was my 13th win, and I try to appreciate every win because you never know when it can be your last.”
cited: http://www.nhra.com/story/2012/5/20/2012-topeka-sunday/

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Williams to star as Prudhomme, Blake as McEwen in ‘Snake & Mongoose’ film
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Richard Blake, left, will play Tom “the Mongoose” McEwen and Jesse Williams Don
“the Snake” Prudhomme in the upcoming major motion picture chronicling the lives of the drag racing legends.
(Cliff Kramer, Nathanson’s Photography)

Snake & Mongoose film producers Robin Broidy and Stephen Nemeth have announced the casting of Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy, Brooklyn’s Finest, The Cabin In The Woods) as drag racing icon Don “the Snake” Prudhomme and newcomer Richard Blake (Dragonball: Evolution) as fellow legend Tom “the Mongoose” McEwen. Award-winning British commercial director Wayne Holloway will make his feature-film directing debut on the project, which he wrote with Alan Paradise. The story details the friendship, rivalry, personal tragedies, triumphs, and business successes of “the Snake” and “the Mongoose.”
Not only did the two men make drag racing history as champion drivers and owners of drag racing teams, but they also modernized the sport in 1970 by shrewdly enticing toy giant Mattel Inc. to make its then-new Hot Wheels line the sport’s first corporate sponsor. When Mattel put logos on dragsters to make them 200-mph billboards for its toy line and put real-life drivers into its TV commercials, Mattel became the first nonautomotive sponsor in a racing sport, and the industry’s first commercial tie-in was born. The Mattel sponsorship money and revenue from other sponsors that immediately followed enabled Prudhomme and McEwen to produce remarkable innovations in their dragsters and to make racing a major sport globally. The filmmakers have partnered with NHRA, which will be an important marketing ally, utilizing the organization’s extensive reach to millions of fans around the world.

The actors first met the drag racing legends they will play at a get-together last year at the home of producer Robin Broidy.

The movie is produced by Nemeth’s Rhino Films and Broidy’s Entertainment Universe, which will also finance. Paradise, Prudhomme, and McEwen are executive producers, and co-producers are Betsy Stahl, Edward Michaels, and Williams.
Screenwriter Paradise is a longtime automotive industry journalist and broadcast producer who began developing the film after being commissioned by Mattel to work with Prudhomme and McEwen to write and direct a documentary celebrating the 35th anniversary of their historic partnership with Hot Wheels. Holloway was tapped to helm the project after an acclaimed career directing commercials and videos all over the world for major brands that include Samsung, NFL, NASCAR, Adidas, and many others.

Broidy commented, “Jesse Williams has always been our first choice. He immediately embraced the story and dove headlong into its development. Jesse has spent personal time with Don and the material, understanding his passion and motivation.”  
She continued, “Richard Blake is that very talented young actor who quietly works for years until the ideal role comes along. During the casting process, we discovered him and ultimately decided he was the right actor to portray the wonderfully complex Tom McEwen.”
Nemeth added, “It’s very exciting to be a part of a broadly appealing, groundbreaking action sports film that has a lot of heart and presents a fierce rivalry that’s factually true and compelling.”
Holloway said, “I am fascinated by this high-octane world and how it is reflected in the relationship between these two great men and rivals. Set against the backdrop of a revolution in a great American motorsport, the drama and intensity is inescapable.”
cited: http://www.nhra.com/story/2012/3/15/snake-mongoose-film/