During the recently completed California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield, Ca., an impressive 48 cars participated in Saturday’s evening Cacklefest. The sight was one to behold. For those who couldn’t make it, Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com reader David Fortenberry captured the action from the grandstands.

Keep up with the action from the Shakedown at E'town event hosted by Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ., live audio and video feed courtesy of Dragstory.com

Keep up with the action from the Shakedown at E'town event hosted by Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ., live audio and video feed courtesy of Dragstory.com

Those who believe their classic cars are safer than today’s automobile might want to watch this video.

Those who believe their classic cars are safer than today’s automobile might want to watch this video.

The IHRA sanctioned their first and last drag race in Charlotte during the 1974. While this video, originally broadcast on Speedvision, which is now Speed TV, showed good footage from the event, the horrific deaths of three people on Saturday of the event was not mentioned. The event was the first eighth-mile sanctioned national event on record and was contested on the pit road at what is now Lowe's Motor Speedway.

The IHRA sanctioned their first and last drag race in Charlotte during the 1974. While this video, originally broadcast on Speedvision, which is now Speed TV, showed good footage from the event, the horrific deaths of three people on Saturday of the event was not mentioned. The event was the first eighth-mile sanctioned national event on record and was contested on the pit road at what is now Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Jim “Bullet” Bailey was known in the drag racing community as the stuntman whose claim to fame was the ability to slide on his belly behind drag race vehicles for the length of a quarter-mile.