Photos by Travis Noack and Jason Mulligan
If you are a gearhead in any way, shape or form, the name Mooneyes has undoubtedly crossed your custom path. Mooneyes specializes in vintage speed and style parts for all sorts of hot rods, bed equipped or not. To celebrate the company’s long history with performance, style and grassroots hot rodding, every year Chico and the crew from Mooneyes hold a shindig to bring together everything from trucks, hot rods, customs, vintage drag cars and the culture that goes right along with it all.
This year the Mooneyes Summer Show stretched out across the grounds of Irwindale Speedway on July 18, and quite a few custom trucks were in attendance amidst ‘20s and ‘30s roadsters and sedans and custom-style cars from the ‘50s and ‘60s. In addition to walking through the impressive corral of custom machinery in attendance this show brings in a lot of culture, with vendors selling everything from custom tin signs to pinstriped panels and numerous top-notch examples of hot rod artwork. Of course, the Mooneyes booth was jumping all weekend with Moon-embossed goodies to transform your garage from an ordinary wrench room into a high-speed gearhead heaven. Speaking of speed, obviously with this company’s long standing quest to go faster, the drag strip was packed with drag cars and trucks pushing it to the limit on the eighth-mile strip of glory. Camshafts thumped and exhausts roared as smoke filled the air and the crowd cheered. The crew from Mooneyes plans to do it all again December 11, 2010, so make sure to head for Irwindale, California to experience this high-octane event firsthand. For more info, go to www.mooneyesusa.com (http://www NULL.mooneyesusa NULL.com/).
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- This was just one of the many ultra-low and insanely badass 1947-54 Chevy trucks at the show.
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- Mooneyes’ vintage slingshot front-engine dragster sits beside its well-known yellow and white shop truck.
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- Here’s McWeeney doing his best Tommy Boy impression. “Do you know where the weight room is?”
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- Beautiful trucks were not the only thing to see at the Mooneyes show. The ladies were out in full force.
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- Not only does the Mooneyes show provide a gathering of some of the finest trucks, customs and hot rods, it is a great place to stock up on collectibles.
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- This is by far the coolest thing we have ever seen pull a vintage drag car to the starting line.
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- Jen and Tom work together to pinstripe this skateboard deck, pulling together a little of each other’s style to shape the design.
Tags: Art, Drag Racing, Irwindale, Kustom Trucks, Mooneyes
