{"id":80451,"date":"2021-07-13T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=80451"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:55:58","slug":"mopar-madness-powers-record-breaking-carlisle-chrysler-nationals-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/mopar-madness-powers-record-breaking-carlisle-chrysler-nationals-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Mopar Madness Powers Record Breaking Carlisle Chrysler Nationals Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69845\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/gallery-lakeland-carlisle-winter-autofest\/0221200944_hdr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0221200944_HDR-scaled-e1608661323786.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,318\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;VS996&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1582278295&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.03&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"[Gallery] Lakeland-Carlisle Winter AutoFest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0221200944_HDR-300x149.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0221200944_HDR-1024x508.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0221200944_HDR-scaled-e1608661323786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When attending a Carlisle event, there&#8217;s no shortage of fireworks, this past event has seen another Showfield record broken for 2021.\u00a0 Since the Carlisle Events schedule launched in January of 2021, turnout for events has been close to or above record numbers and that trend continued July 9-11 as part of the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals.\u00a0 Mopar fans had exactly what they wanted, more Mopar!\u00a0 The \u201cMopar Madness\u201d was on full display, as was an all-new record of 2,926 cars, mixing perfectly with a sold-out swap meet of vendors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The three-day affair is always extended to four with the annual Mopar Rebellion kick-off party, held starting at 4 p.m. on Thursday before show weekend.\u00a0 That get-together was the perfect jumping-off point for what would end up being three full days of energy, parts shopping and unmatched camaraderie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the sun rose on the Carlisle PA Fairgrounds July 9 through the final load-out on Sunday, the place was hopping with special displays, vendors, guests and special attractions.\u00a0 Spotlighted in 2021 were the Demons, 50-years of 1971 Mopars, Old Skool Paint, and even Dirty \u2018Birds.\u00a0 Buildings T and Y saw a lot of eyes, as guests checked out the likes of a 1971 Road Runner that was salvaged and rebuilt following Hurricane Katrina, another \u201971 that was driven direct from Connecticut to Carlisle with no AC or power steering and even a \u201971 with a big Warner Brothers Road Runner protruding from the hood (beep! beep!).\u00a0 Not far from there was a nice mix of Forward Look cars in Building R.\u00a0 This display included designers Gordon Davis and Diran Yazejian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forward Look guys weren\u2019t the only special guests, as Carlisle welcomed Herb McCandless, the Golden Commandos, Ramchargers, Joe Zolper and Dave Rea too.\u00a0 For McCandless, his appearance was supported by the world premiere of a documentary titled \u201cMr. 4 Speed,\u201d some of which was shot in Carlisle in 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though this year\u2019s event has concluded, preparations are underway for the 2022 show.\u00a0 Next year\u2019s fun runs July 15-17.\u00a0 Save the date and register today because it\u2019ll be a fun one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>When attending a Carlisle event, there&#8217;s no shortage of fireworks, this past event has seen another Showfield record broken for 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":69845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,8393,22],"tags":[7869,8527,2052,64,41],"class_list":["post-80451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-press-releases","category-event-coverage","tag-carlisle","tag-chrysler-nationals","tag-events","tag-mopar","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0221200944_HDR-scaled-e1608661323786.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-kVB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80452,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451\/revisions\/80452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}