SPEEDWAY GEARS UP FOR SHOW; CLASSIC CARS, MIDGET RACE TO HIGHLIGHT CHARITY EVENT.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer It will be vehicular nirvana tonight and Saturday at the Saugus Speedway, where all things automotive - from classic cars to midget race cars and vendors of vintage auto parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
The second annual Saugus Speedway Oldies Oldies is a generic term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres. & Goodies Car Show will be held all day Saturday beginning at 9 a.m., but tonight's lineup is scheduled to include time trials and qualifying races for one event, the M-Car Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. . That race pits drivers of miniature dragsters against each other on a course that is half of the Saugus Speedway's oval track  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. . The tiny
cars, powered by a 3.5-horsepower engine, can reach maximum speeds of 35
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Sponsors pay between $850 and $6,500 to enter teams in the M-Car Grand Prix. The race is a fund-raiser for the Santa Clarita Child & Family Development Center, which serves 3,500 clients each year with programs that include crisis counseling for suicidal youths, parenting classes, couples therapy, substance abuse and delinquency prevention, and treatment for attention deficit disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADD or ADHD) formerly hyperactivity Behavioral syndrome in children, whose major symptoms are inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any . Meanwhile, the Soledad Canyon Road race track will host a diverse lineup of entertainment, activities and contests Saturday, said Terri Burbank, general manager of the Saugus Speedway and Saugus Swap Meet. Trophies will be awarded in 29 categories at the classic car contest. Most of the entrants will be pre-1970s models, Burbank said. The cars and trucks will be judged on their best paint jobs and customizing. Judges also will choose the best Mustang, Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and , Thunderbird thunderbird In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder. , antique auto, muscle car - such as a Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird or Trans Am, truck and street rod. ``We are expecting more than 300 classic show cars to compete in those categories,'' Burbank said. ``We had 220 cars last year.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) Dave King and his son, Josh, will be entering their 1950 Mercury Mercula in the Saugus Speedway Oldies & Goodies Car Show. (2--Color) Josh King, of Santa Clarita, grips the wheel of the flame-painted Mercury he and his father will enter in the classic car contest. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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