The cars will be the stars this week when 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force opens the gates of his Southern California racing complex for the annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show benefitting the California Highway Patrol’s “CHiP’s for Kids” Christmas toy drive.
 
Hundreds of street rods, muscle cars, classics, exotics, motorcycles, trucks, boats, specialty vehicles and race cars including the Force brothers’ “Nightstalker” Funny Car will be on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.  Price of admission is a new, unwrapped $10 toy.
 
In addition to the “Nightstalker,” which returned to competition this year in a one-off event at Norwalk, Ohio, the vehicle lineup includes Jay Leno’s 1955 Buick Roadmaster custom, a $2 million Bugatti Veyron, a collection of “monster rods” built from Peterbilt trucks and an historic Amphicar designed for road or water.

Unwrapped Toy Provides Access to Drivers, Other Celebrity Guests
 
The cars will be the stars this week when 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force opens the gates of his Southern California racing complex for the annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show benefitting the California Highway Patrol’s “CHiP’s for Kids” Christmas toy drive.
 
Hundreds of street rods, muscle cars, classics, exotics, motorcycles, trucks, boats, specialty vehicles and race cars including the Force brothers’ “Nightstalker” Funny Car will be on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.  Price of admission is a new, unwrapped $10 toy.
 
In addition to the “Nightstalker,” which returned to competition this year in a one-off event at Norwalk, Ohio, the vehicle lineup includes Jay Leno’s 1955 Buick Roadmaster custom, a $2 million Bugatti Veyron, a collection of “monster rods” built from Peterbilt trucks and an historic Amphicar designed for road or water.
 
The event also will celebrate the 50th anniversary of vehicles from the year 1959 – cars, trucks, classics and customs.
 
Sponsored by the Automobile Club of Southern California, Fairway Ford, System One wax products and Los Angeles television stations KCBS and KCAL, the Holiday Car Show also features vendor booths, tours of the JFR shop and museum, special pricing on items in the John Force RaceStation retail store and music by the bands “The Answer,” “M-O-S Project” and “L’il Mo and the Dynaflos.”
 
Celebrity guests, each committed to participation in a show-ending autograph session, include newly-crowned NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car Champion Robert “Top  Gun” Hight, Ashley Force Hood, Auto Club Finals winner Mike Neff, Force, racing legend Tom “the Mongoose” McEwen, ESPN’s “Queen of Cars,” Genevieve Chappell, Cory McClenathan and, of course, Santa Claus.
 
JFR’s California complex is located just off the 91 Freeway.  Take the Weir Canyon exit north.  Turn right on Savi Ranch Road and follow the signs to 22722 Old Canal Road.

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