The WV Drag Racer's Hall of Fame's annual Winfield Cruz will be held at the Winfield Municipal Building / H.O.F. Museum on Saturday, 9-24-2022 from 1:00 pm until dark. HOF induction ceremony will take place at 3:00 pm.

Edited September 2, 20223 yr by Frosty

  I 1st read that as V W racing and was thinkin really...on our Pontiac site?

Clean those glasses Justa! They are a tad dirty bro!

I was in Winfield WV this weekend for the annual WV Drag Racers Hall of Fame Criuse In and HOF Induction Ceremony. The cruise in and ceremony are held at the Winfield Municipal Building on WV 817.

Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Cars at the Cruise In

Black Beauty and Elco

This decked out VW minivan has toured most of Europe twice, including places like Russia and Bosnia!

Very cool T-37 street/strip car.

Flatheads Forever. This was one nicely detailed flatty!

This baby belongs to my buddy Bill Muck.  This car has a special history. It's original owner was a SD Lemans but he couldn't have one because of GM's ban on racing. So he custom ordered the next best thing - a 421 HO Tempest Lemans. It's a unicorn. Pontiac never built a 421 HO Tempest Lemans but Jay Effitel's (the original owner) dealer did. The car is thoroughly documented. This car was featured a year or two back in Poncho Perfection.

 

The Hunley & Boggs nostalgia drag team was there with there 2 old rails, including their 1967 AHRA World Championship car! After the induction ceremony was over, both of these cars did a cacklefest! Nothing is quite like burning nitromethane stinging your eyes! 

 

My buddy Jack just recently took delivery of his 2022 70th anniversary C8 Corvette convertible. Jack is quite the Corvette enthusiast. He owns #153 of the original 300 Flint-built 1953 Corvettes, a 1978 Corvette, a 2002 50th anniversary edition Corvette, and now this one. He also owns a Chevy Apache pickup that's fully restored.

 

Here are some of the drag cars at the show!

 

So of the trophies, pictures and memorabilia at the HOF.

This model of Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick's car has a personalized note to it's owner and my friend Larry Bailey. Larry had Arnie sign it back into 2002. Apparently this diorama meant something special to Arnie based on the note.

I did a little sightseeing in Pt. Pleasant WV. It is just across the Ohio river from Ohio.

It has nice state park dedicated the "Battle of Point Pleasant". It's claim to fame is that it might have actually been the site of the first battle of the American Revolution. It was the first time that native American Indians fought against whites too. The Indians were lead by Chief Cornstalk. Lord Dunmore commanded the British Army and Gen. Andrew Lewis commanded the colonials ("the rebels" as some still loyal the crown might say!). Cornstalk is buried in the park.

Monument to the battle - commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Cornstalk final resting place.

 

Point Pleasant has a more recent claim to fame, it is home to......

 

MOTHMAN

Next to this statue and a 1/2 block from the state park is the Mothman Museum. You can Google it! It was closed when I was there. It had another hour before it was going to open and I had to get to Charleston.

Speaking of Charleston....I did make one stop while I was in town.

Me and Abe hanging out.....

 

Now all four of my personal vehicles have been photographed in front of the WV state capitol.

Interesting point, I work in Lansing and I've never photographed any of my cars in front of our own state capitol. Go figure!

gota love plum crazy paint!!!!

11 hours ago, Frosty said:

MOTHMAN

Next to this statue and a 1/2 block from the state park is the Mothman Museum. You can Google it! It was closed when I was there. It had another hour before it was going to open and I had to get to Charleston.

Thought this was interesting, it was on this TV show recently that I watched about this. William Shatner is super extra hosting it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10098498/

This one NEEDs to be in the Hall.

Love all the pictures Frosty! 
So glad to see your TA is up and running again. 

4 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

This one NEEDs to be in the Hall.

And this is why i love cars with Dagmar !!!!!