{"id":29506,"date":"2019-10-20T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=29506"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:57","slug":"horsepower-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/events\/2019\/10\/horsepower-for-hope.html","title":{"rendered":"Horsepower for Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual Horsepower for Hope car show might\nhave been a bit waterlogged, but that didn\u2019t stop those who attended from\nhaving a good time for great causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local non-profit project Beautiful – Inside and\nOut hosted the event at the car enthusiast heaven known as M1 Concourse.\nShortly after I arrived, the skies opened up and the sprinkles turned into a\ndownpour, which is always frustrating when it\u2019s during a once a year show to\nraise money for charity. The show must go on, as they say, and that it did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the large tent\/event space at M1, the\nattendees came in to dry off, listen to some live acoustic music, and eat\nburgers and hot dogs. It was definitely a kid-friendly show; the youngsters\nlined up for the highly competitive Hot Wheels gravity race, which I had to\nfight the urge to muscle my way into. While they weren\u2019t trying to find the\nquickest diecast cars to battle it out, they could get creative in the arts and\ncrafts area or have someone else get creative while an artist painted their\nfaces! There was also a silent auction; last year, I actually won the Katzkin\ninterior, I just need to figure out what style to go with for my Ram R\/T.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the rain slowed down, the Dodge Thrill Rides\nwere back to ripping down the track. Folks started streaming out to the\nblacktop where the rides gathered for the car show, which was also geared\ntoward entertaining kids and hopefully igniting that spark to create future\ngearheads. On hand were exotics to sit in, a giant monster truck to marvel at,\nand even a NASCAR vehicle to climb in. \u201cMello Yello\u201d is a 1989 racecar built by SABCO;\nthere\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s the car Kyle Petty broke his leg in before it was\nconverted into a rare road racecar. In fact, my good friend Mike Haislet, who\nowns the car, said that it was the same car that one of my friends, Tommy\nKendall, raced in the epic 1991 Banquet 300 at Sears Point. Crazy how the world\nworks sometimes! Mike had a bucket of Hot Wheels on hand for the kids and was\nencouraging them to climb into Mello Yello so they could feel what it\u2019s like\nto be behind the wheel of a legit NASCAR racecar. The look on their faces as\nhe helped them crawl out was priceless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another rare racecar made it too: a Shelby\nCan Am powered by a hopped-up V6 Dodge motor. The car\/engine combo had its own\nSports Car Club of America race series from 1991 to 1996. It\u2019s one of the meanest\nsounding 6-cylinder engines I\u2019ve heard! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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