Eric Berge
This year’s 16th annual Magnolia Car Show Sunday on Aug. 13 went down without a hitch. Labeled a "happy" car show over the years by different participants, this year’s show was no exception.
For the fifth year in a row, Wayne King's vintage 1964 Top Fuel Dragster made its way down from Sequim, Wash. to be at our show and mark the noon hour firing up and sounding off running on a healthy load of nitromethane in the tank.
Wayne has passed away earlier this year after a long battle with cancer, Wayne a life time member of the “Smokers Car Club” of Bakersfield, Calif., and had a career racing Top Fuel in southern California throughout the 1960s.
His friend and crew member Bob is taking Wayne’s restored dragster for a final tour of the northwest. It will be donated to NHRA museum this fall.
Also another new addition to this year’s show was live music provided by “The Delstroyers” providing their brand of Surf instrumental music for a 40 minute set counting off just as the dragster begin to shut down taking our show into afternoon hour.
Next year it will be 17th annual Magnolia Village Car Show and we will be back and hope to see you there.