NV Racing News

RENO, NV (Sept. 21) — This weekend car groups celebrated the end of summer with a weekend full of events.  Great weather set the stage for all of them. • Saturday began with the Impala Car Club hosting the 5th Annual Show to help Forever 14. The site was the Sun Valley Community Center. Impalas Car Club president Kevin Bland said, “It’s great, couldn’t ask for a better turn out. I think we’ve over 100 cars to help raise money for the cause we’re doing this for, which is teen suicide prevention. Unlike many events this car meet has a

RENO, NV (SEPT 14) — Great weather set the stage for many car meets in our region as well as a couple of races. • The second Saturday of the month is when Nevada Vintage Euro meets. Location is by the Starbucks at the Summit Mall.  All three founders, Jonas Goldsmith, Rachel Micander and Trevor were on hand with their BMW Sedans. Asked Goldsmith about the group and he named the other two founders of the group. Asked about the group Goldsmith said, “We’re not going to hold anybody to a standard, we like vintage European cars but anybody that

RENO, NV (Sept. 7) — Once again the weekend was a flurry of car meets plus some racing in our region. And Sunday was a triple header for car meets here in Reno. • Reno Jeeps & Coffee started the day off. Not a bad turn out although it’s never huge. This time someone drove their WW II Jeep to the meet that happens close to the Human Bean Coffee Stand at the corner of Longley Lane and South McCarran. While there Charles Doyle, who heads the group, announced a change in the schedule. “I started out at once a

RENO, NV (Aug. 31) — August ended with a flurry of car meets in our region. This was a great way to end the final full month of summer. • Saturday afternoon is when Hot Rod Nights has another Car Show @ Sonic. Location is on South Virginia. While there wasn’t a huge turn out there were a variety of cars lined up in the parking lot. One of them owned by Dan Gates is very different from when it was built. “We’re looking at a 1947 Morris 8 Series E. I can tell you what the 8 means. Morris

RENO, NV (Aug. 24) — As August is winding down there is a flurry of events and meets. It’s a busy time for race and car fans. • Saturday got started with the Cars and Stripes car, truck and motorcycle show. It all happened at the parking lot in front of the Sportsman’s Warehouse. There was a huge variety of cars and trucks on display.  Several rows in the parking lot were full of all types of vehicles. One unusual car was an early post war BMW. There were very small and at one time sold in America. Before lunch

RENO, NV (Aug. 17) — A week after Hot August Nights departs and there are car meets all over the place. They range from Minden to Fallon as well as Reno and Sparks. • Two groups got Sunday rolling. Over by the Human Bean Coffee Stand, on the corner of Longley and South McCarran, Reno Jeeps & Coffee held its second meet of the month.  Not far away, by the Human Bean Coffee Stand at the corner of Keitzke and Moana Lanes, there was another meet. This is where Reno Cars & Coffee met. As usual there were some contrasts.

RENO, NV (Aug. 10) — This past week Hot August Nights took over the Reno/Sparks area. Today there was a huge parade and trophies were handed out. During this time there were also two very different events happening on Sunday. One of them was the month’s first Sparks Cars & Coffee meet. While the turn out was a bit lower than normal, probably due to the heat and the end of HAN, it was still pretty good. As usual there was quite a mix of cars including two Corvettes from different generations. One if front engine while the other was