Hot rodders are gathering in Clovis for a big Motorama anniversary

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Central Valley's largest classical car gathering is kicking disconnected its 5th day successful Clovis with a bid of pop-up events each crossed the city, according to organizers of the Old Town Motorama.

The 5 days of events successful Clovis pb up to a neighborhood-wide car amusement closing disconnected the streets of Old Town Clovis. Organizers accidental the extremity of the motorama is to link the car-loving assemblage successful Clovis with chap enthusiasts.

"Our biggest extremity is to make a monolithic economical interaction successful Clovis," said Anthony Granata with the Hot Rod Coalition. "Last year, it was similar lightning successful a bottle. We were similar 350, 400 [in erstwhile years] and past past twelvemonth deed 637."

For the past fewer years, Granata says the Old Town Motorama has taken implicit the streets of Old Town Clovis to dainty families to a time of customized and classical cars.

"We emotion to spouse with breweries due to the fact that if you didn't know, blistery rodders emotion to portion beer," Granata said. "The monster pre-party is implicit astatine Crow and Wolf Friday nighttime - Hot Rod Coalition and Fresno Street Eats volition worldly 3,500 radical into Crow and Wolf for the afloat thoroughfare closure and the champion nutrient trucks successful town."

Granata with organizer Hot Rod Coalition says he's a lifelong car fanatic who was influenced aboriginal by his family's shared involvement successful classical cars.

"My dada was a large power successful my life," Granata said. "In 2001, helium passed away."

Granata says that successful 2005, portion attending Fresno State, helium wrote a program for a large-scale car lawsuit that would go the blueprint for the Old Town Motorama. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was the catalyst for the Hot Rod Coalition to commencement the Old Town Motorama.

"Old Town Clovis had their ain amusement that was successful April connected a Sunday. At the clip of the pandemic, they didn't person the capableness to spot that lawsuit through," Granata said. "So we came alongside and took that event. We've been doing it alongside with the Business Organization of Old Town Clovis, [BOOT] ever since we rebranded it."

Granata says this twelvemonth volition besides diagnostic expansive prizes for the apical 75 cars and a $500 expansive prize for the champion successful amusement with a special, locally-made customized trophy.

"We've truly deed the nail connected the head," Granata said. "We tin find classical car communities and marque them consciousness safe."