Half Moon Bay's Awe-Inspiring Festival of Magnificent Machines

[Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show Expands to Two Days, April 28-29, 2012 at Half Moon Bay (CA) Airport

[HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA -- There's nothing quite like the Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show -- Half Moon Bay, California's massive celebration of mechanical ingenuity, power and style.

It's a whimsical, fascinating, amusing, curious and absolutely unique show and tell spectacle featuring 2,000 magnificent driving, flying and working machines from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The spectacular 22nd annual show is expanding to two days in 2012 -- April 28-29 -- from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Half Moon Bay Airport, located in the picturesque seaside town of Half Moon Bay, CA about 20 miles south of San Francisco.

It's one of the west coast's biggest, baddest gatherings of the world's coolest cars. Every automotive style and era will be represented among the mesmerizing displays -- tricked-out hot rods, customs, muscle cars, street machines, lowriders, modified imports, sporty compacts, kit cars, touring, luxury and sports cars -- complete with rumbling engines, impeccable detail work, and sparkling chrome.

[Proud owners show up in cars that come in all shapes, colors and sizes. Spectators will get a rare up-close look at antique horseless carriages and Ford Model T's, fanciful touring and luxury cars, powerful sports cars, custom cars and street rods, muscle cars, vintage and modern era high-performance race cars, quirky art and pedal cars, modified street machines with cutting edge styles, exotic high-performance cars, stylish European cars, ultra cool low-riders, sporty compacts, modified imports with flashy graphics, fashionable hip-hop urban show cars, homebuilt kit cars, super-charged turbo cars and trucks, "green" technology/alternative fuel vehicles, streamliners, dragsters, funny cars, gassers, and jet cars.

Displays include exceptional vintage warbirds, classics from the 40's and 50's and homebuilt aircraft, tricked out trucks and motorcycles, Model T fire engines, vintage busses, antique engines and tractors, helicopter and bi-plane rides, kinetic art, rolling sculptures and a emolition Derby.

To show a car, the registration fee is $30 ($40 for entries postmarked after April 15) and includes a dash plaque and admission for two people.

Spectator admission is $20 ($30 for 2-day pass) for adults, $10 ($15 for 2-day pass) for ages 11-17 and 65+, and free for kids age 10 and under. Tickets are available at the gate only.

Half Moon Bay Airport, at 9850 N. Cabrillo Highway, is located on Highway 1, about 20 miles south of San Francisco and 5 miles north of Highway 92.

The show benefits the Coastside Adult Day Health Center.

For information and registration forms, call 650-726-2328 or

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WHAT: 22nd Annual Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show, Half Moon Bay's spectacular showcase of motorized mechanical marvels from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries -- more than 2,000 beautiful flying, driving and working machines on display for public viewing -- the world's coolest cars on display include tricked-out hot rods, customs, muscle cars, street machines, lowriders, modified imports, sporty compacts, kit cars, touring, luxury and sports cars -- complete with rumbling engines, impeccable detail work, and sparkling chrome.
ADMISSION: $20 ($30 for 2-day pass) for adults, $10 ($15 for 2-day pass) for ages 11-17 and 65+, and free for kids age 10 and under.
WHEN: April 28-29, 2012. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
WHERE: At Half Moon Bay (CA) Airport (9850 N. Cabrillo Hwy) on Hwy. 1, 5 miles north of Hwy. 92.
Info-Line: 650-726-2328 or

PHOTO CREDIT -- MIRAMAR EVENTS

One of the west coast's biggest and baddest gatherings of the world's coolest cars will be featured at the 22nd Annual Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show, April 28-29, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, California.