NV Racing News

RENO, NV (April 5) — This Easter weekend was highlighted by three different groups meeting, with one of them having a cruise. Great weather highlighted all the meets. • Saturday started at Need2Speed at the Northtowne Shopping area. This reporter had a chance to speak with Emma Vargas, who explained she’s a long time race and car fan. “This is our third Kars & Karts technically. I recently became the promotions and marketing manager at Need2Speed back in August,” she said. “It’s been on my bucket list to do a car meet here as I think it ties in really

RENO, NV (April 1) — Well here we are at the start of April and once again the car meet buffet is full. Not only that but regional racing is getting going as well.  While maybe not flowers, March showers is bringing Spring green flags. CAR MEETS: • Due to the weather, not sure if there is a meet at Kim’s Donut & Tea House Thursday morning. If there is it will start at 8 a.m. and the location is 1328 U.S. 395 North in Gardnerville.  But Thursday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m. Gardnerville Cars  & Coffee meets at the Dairy

RENO, NV (March 28) — This was a very full weekend and as a result there are two articles on this webpage. The first concerned the Reno RV & Boat Show that also had the Off-Road Motorsports Expo. This one is about the other things that happened. This edition is about the upcoming Stadium GP, a Friday Night Bike Ride and finally Cars & Cream that really should be listed as Cars & Ice Cream. • On Thursday evening at South-40 the Stadium GP held a volunteer meeting. The goal was to sign up volunteers as well as explaining what

RENO, NV (March 25) – Here we are at the end of March and regional racing is getting started. There are car meets galore, cruises as well as a growing amount of racing on the Internet. CAR MEETS: • As usual the weekend begins around 8 a.m. Thursday when a group goes to Kim’s Donut and Tea House. Location is 1328 U.S. 395 North in Gardnerville. • Friday evening at 6 p.m. there is another Friday Night Ride hosted the Reno Bike Community. Meet at the Maverik’s at Sutro and North McCarran, kick stands up at 7 p.m. – There

SPARKS, NV (March 22) — The second meet of the month was highlighted by wonderful weather.  As a result there was a huge amount of cars, trucks, a few motorcycles and many fans. Square Bodies, which are mostly pick-up trucks filled an entire row. These were made by Chevrolet years ago. While not a square body, over on row was this beautiful Chevy Pick Up truck. Keeping with the vintage style even had white sidewall tires. Even the motor was stock and cleaned up in this truck. A bit newer was a Plymouth Duster. Like others it was all shined

RENO, NV (March 15) — Great spring weather highlighted Reno Cars & Coffee’s second meet of the month.  There were many cars and trucks not to mention folks looking and admiring the vehicles on display. A bunch would get some coffee from the Human Bean Coffee3 Stand then wander over to check out what was on display. There was also a pretty good Corvette line. It included both front and mid-engine models. Not far away was a blue 1974 & 1/2 Triumph TR6 owned by Andrew Ingersoll. Asked about it he said, “My dad bought it in 1977 and it

RENO, NV (March 8) — This weekend two large car events happened in Reno. Great weather set the stage for both events. • Need2Speed is going to start having a Karts & Kars meet on the first Saturday of the month. Not only was the parking lot full but the area in front of the business as well as the patio was used. One of the cars on the patio was this beautiful Lotus. Usually it was surrounded by a crowd of admirers. Right across from it was a yellow Ferrari. It was on of the last cars put into this

RENO, NV (March 1) — As we say hello to a new month we also say good-bye to a local shop and hello to a pair of meets on Sunday. For the VW community Fibercraft has been one of the places to go for repairs, fabrication, supplies and off-road things. Saturday the shop closed with a Good-Bye BBQ. Asked about the closing owner Adam Dimick said, “I’ve been working here for the last nine years and we purchased it about five years ago.” Then he explained his reason for closing the business. “It’s hard to compete on the online parts

RENO,  NV (Feb.22)  – Today Sparks Cars & Coffee had its second meet of the month. In the afternoon Nevada Car Coalition had its second Calendar Planning Meeting. • The Sparks Cars & Coffee meet was by the Starbucks located on Disc Drive. While the turnout was on the light side there were still a wide variety of cars to see. One example of variety was where a Cadillac convertible was parked next to a Lamborghini. Another contrast was a 1950’s GMC pickup parked next to a Maserati sedan. Both were from two different eras. The GMC, while looking stock,