{"id":703,"date":"2011-07-08T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/bixby-knolls-auto-show-brings-dragsters-nostalgia-to-long-beach-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:12:00","slug":"bixby-knolls-auto-show-brings-dragsters-nostalgia-to-long-beach-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/bixby-knolls-auto-show-brings-dragsters-nostalgia-to-long-beach-on-saturday","title":{"rendered":"Bixby Knolls Auto Show Brings Dragsters, Nostalgia To Long Beach On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dragsters fire up during the 2010 show.<\/em><\/p>\n

This Saturday, the busy corridor of Atlantic Avenue in Bixby Knolls will be shut down to traffic to make room for The Groundshakers.<\/p>\n

No, not those giant seismic mega-trucks that rumble for miles around and send your pets scrambling for cover.<\/p>\n

These groundshakers are much smaller in size, but historical giants that fueled a passion so great that it would come to define a generation. <\/p>\n

The sixth annual Bixby Knolls Dragster Expo and Car Show will be held from 3:00-9:00pm on Saturday, featuring more than 200 cars on display and more than one dozen fire-breathing dragsters. There will be food, music, art, historical memorabilia, prizes for the best cars and much more. But the heart of the event is the tire-melting dragsters that once terrorized the asphalt of the Lions Drag Strip<\/a> from 1955-72, and put Long Beach on the automotive map during perhaps the most car-crazed era in American history.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I have been given the distinct honor of serving as a judge during the show, and I cannot over-emphasize the following point: I CAN BE BRIBED. My preferred method of payment is a ride in your car, but get creative and we’ll see how my vote sways. <\/p>\n

Check out the video above from last year’s show, when the dragsters roared us into the night. <\/p>\n

P.S. Are you going to be there tomorrow? If you’d like to send photos of the show in to the lbpost.com, e-mail them to SportsBook@lbpost.com<\/a> with the line “Auto Show” and I’ll post them in a photo gallery on Monday. See you out there!<\/p>\n

Disclosure: The Bixby Knolls Dragster Expo and Car Show is an advertiser of the Long Beach Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sixth annual Bixby Knolls Dragster Expo and Car Show will be held from 3:00-9:00pm on Saturday, featuring more than 200 cars on display and more than one dozen fire-breathing dragsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}