Gateway Int'l Raceway is getting ready to launch the 20th anniversary edition of the MO IL Dodge Dealers Monster Mopar Weekend. The dates are Sept 10-12, 2004 At Gateway International Raceway. Of course this year's show will feature 700 restored Chrysler Muscle cars, a full 500 car Mopar bracket program, and the huge swap meet that goes with it. But we have also added a new and very exciting feature program! The Inaugural Teen ArriveAlive Funny Car Nationals for 1985 and older funny cars which will race Friday and Saturday nights under the lights. This is the National Points Championship for the Nostalgia Funny Car Association and one of the largest gatherings of Funny cars anywhere in North America in 25 years.
Close to 50 funny cars are pre-entered! Currently we have 16 Nitro cars entered as well as 27 Blown Alcohol cars and 3 injected cars. We will also have 5-6 display cars. Of the nitro cars there will be a couple of "name" cars. Dale Pulde will be here tuning Dan Horan's Mustang out of Simi California and Top Fuel Team Owner Virgil Hartman will be here with his new Mustang Nostalgia Flopper out of South Carolina. We have Nitro cars coming from all over North America including a car from Toronto, Canada and 8 cars coming out of Southern California / Arizona. We also will have on the grounds the restored 1972 Revell's Chi Town Hustler Dodge Charger and the restored Ramchargers Dodge Demon. Expect period correct low to mid 6 second times and 240 MPH out of these cars.
71 Year old Joe Jocono will head up the Blown Alcohol field. He will be driving the restored Rollin Stoned Cuda he drove in 1970. Joe re-licensed at the Hot Rod Reunion this past summer.
Also on tap are more than 60 cars competing The Auto Mart Nostalgia Super Stock Classic, The Indy Cylinder Heads Quick -16 with "The Worlds Fastest Mopars" A Wild King of the Street program and the Nostalgia Rod and Custom Association's "Midwest Rod Custom and Street Machine Nationals". NASCAR Legend Cotton Owens and Drag Racing exhibition king Bob Riggle with his Hemi Under Glass are also expected to attend.
Tickets are available at the gate and are $20.00 daily, $30.00 for two days, and $35.00 for all three days. Kids under 12 are free and on site parking is free. Spectator Gates open at 11:00 AM Friday and 8:00 AM Saturday and Sunday.
Close to 50 funny cars are pre-entered! Currently we have 16 Nitro cars entered as well as 27 Blown Alcohol cars and 3 injected cars. We will also have 5-6 display cars. Of the nitro cars there will be a couple of "name" cars. Dale Pulde will be here tuning Dan Horan's Mustang out of Simi California and Top Fuel Team Owner Virgil Hartman will be here with his new Mustang Nostalgia Flopper out of South Carolina. We have Nitro cars coming from all over North America including a car from Toronto, Canada and 8 cars coming out of Southern California / Arizona. We also will have on the grounds the restored 1972 Revell's Chi Town Hustler Dodge Charger and the restored Ramchargers Dodge Demon. Expect period correct low to mid 6 second times and 240 MPH out of these cars.
71 Year old Joe Jocono will head up the Blown Alcohol field. He will be driving the restored Rollin Stoned Cuda he drove in 1970. Joe re-licensed at the Hot Rod Reunion this past summer.
Also on tap are more than 60 cars competing The Auto Mart Nostalgia Super Stock Classic, The Indy Cylinder Heads Quick -16 with "The Worlds Fastest Mopars" A Wild King of the Street program and the Nostalgia Rod and Custom Association's "Midwest Rod Custom and Street Machine Nationals". NASCAR Legend Cotton Owens and Drag Racing exhibition king Bob Riggle with his Hemi Under Glass are also expected to attend.
Tickets are available at the gate and are $20.00 daily, $30.00 for two days, and $35.00 for all three days. Kids under 12 are free and on site parking is free. Spectator Gates open at 11:00 AM Friday and 8:00 AM Saturday and Sunday.
