The Gear Jam vintage drags, traditional hot rod n custom show and swap meet is May 11 at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia, with a cruise-in/concert Friday night May 10 in the historic downtown area.

Check Mapquest: If you live East of the Mississippi, Commerce is a day’s drive for you!

Cruisin’ Commerce on Friday night from 6-10pm, with cruising on the main street, VIP hot rod parking, food tents, a beer garden and live music by Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho Devilles! This is being put on for us by the City of Commerce—to say they are excited to have us is an understatement.

Saturday’s event features race classes for Gasser, Front Engine Dragster, Altered/Comp Coupe, Nostalgia Super Stock, Hot Rod and Muscle Car (1974 and older), with attention paid to the cars looking like they’re from the ‘60s, not modern “Pro” style builds.

Heads-up racing with qualifying in the morning, and then the hard cases run a Quick 8 Elimination for $1,000 per class purse money, while everyone else is paired with the car (in class) closest to your ET for a best 2-out-of-3 shootout eliminations—Everyone gets to race all day, nobody gets put on the trailer, nobody gets their doors blown off, and nobody watches staggered-start racing. It should be fun for everyone, whether you run 7 or 17 seconds!

At the end, we’ll take the class winners and the two fastest non-qualifiers from the field for a final Mr. Eliminator.

Tech cards are $50, and gets the driver, your pit kitty and little grease monkeys in.

Gear Jam Car Show is for traditionally-styled 1966 and older cars, trucks and motorcycles. “Traditionally styled” meaning pastel or monochrome paint jobs and 20-inch Boyd wheels with rubber bands, or Pro-Street Camaros and the like will be in the parking lot.

Show Car entry is $35, and gets the driver, your chick and little grease monkeys in. (Immediate family.)

All other adults, race crew and spectators are $10 each. Kids 12-under free.

Show awards are:
Flat-out Bitchin! -- Sponsored by Sock F'ers Car Club
Best Paint-- Sponsored by the TW's Car Club
Best Survivor -- Sponsored by The Cross Members
Best Traditional -- Sponsored by The Iron Lords
Trick Truck -- W&H Restoration and Performance
Best Use of Louvers-- Bright Star Hot Rods

If your club or shop wants to sponsor a trophy, let me know.
Classes still available are:
Quality Breakage (Breakage coming to or at the event, including race cars)
Best Race Car
Best Engine
Best Wheelie
Best Custom
Best Interior
Just Kicks Ass!

Swap Meet
We’re anticipating between 150-200 vendors, based on the vendor count for our monthly NE Georgia Swap Meet, put on by us at the same location.
Spaces are just $25 for all the space you want, and that gets you and a helper in the gate. One rig per space, please—no sharing spaces with your buddy’s truck and trailer.

Manufacturer’s Midway: $100, for as much space as you need; includes passes for your entire crew.

Back-up Girl Contest sponsored by Rich Venza’s FaceBook Back-Up-Girls page. $100 Cash prize for the Best Bug. This isn’t a “Hot Chick” contest-- the Bug Contest will be based on how well the BUG does her job, not how much she entertains the guys in the stands. This is open to all ages.

Burn-out contest sponsored by Hot Rod Deluxe Magazine. Prize to be announced.

For more information, go to www.gearjamdrags.com, shoot me an email directly at brad56@windstream.net, or call (706) 424-5035