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30th Pacific Coast Dream Machines - The Coolest Show on Earth

  • Half Moon Bay Airport (map)

Show Canceled due to Corona Virus

It's quite simply the “Coolest Show on Earth”. This year’s spectacular 30th annual show will be held on Sunday, April 26, a one-day mega-show, 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.

The show is 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 world's coolest cars of every era and style, model-T fire engines, vintage busses, custom motorcycles, tricked out trucks, sleek streamliners, one-of-a-kind antique engines and tractors and historic military aircraft will be among the mesmerizing displays.

Headline attractions scheduled to appear include:


  • The west coast's biggest, baddest gathering of the world's coolest cars, trucks, motorcycles and aircraft. 


  • Bob Senz’ Big Cacklefest – a mass synchronized firing-up of the engines (10am,12pm, 2pm).


  • Spectacular skydiving performances with military style jumps from the C-47 Skytrain by the experts at Precision Skydiving.


  • Three (3) 20-minute electrifying, high-flying 4-rider freestyle motocross stunt shows (10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm).


  • New this year: super fast, intensely competitive grudge match style Quad Wars wheel to wheel racing.


  • Inspiring flyovers by some of our nation’s most storied military aircraft in memory of Eddie Andreini Sr., world-renown aerobatics pilot, founding Dream Machines contributor and pillar in the Half Moon Bay community.


  • Magnificent military aircraft including a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, P-51 Mustangs, YAK Russian fighters and an impressive array of L-39, T-6 and T-28 military fighters and trainers plus a U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter.

  • World Championship GEICO Motorcycle U.S. Round with the MotoAmerica Championship of Monterey.

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Super sleek speed machines and streamliners in “World Record Wonderland”.

  • New this year: a special robotics display and demo by Bay Area high school robotics teams and manufacturers. 


  • Baylands Quarter Midget Racing Association’s special exhibit of competition-ready mini race cars.


  • A special display and parade of Dragnet-like vintage police cars from the 60s and 70s.


  • An array of nostalgia dragsters to honor the former Half Moon Bay Drag Strip.


  • “Mustang Madness”, a spectacular display of America’s Premier World War II Fighter.


  • Ultra thrilling rides in a P-51 Mustang plus heart-pounding monster truck rides.

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Refurbished fly-wheel engines from the Early Days Gas Engine & Tractor Association and meticulously restored logging equipment and artifacts from Willits CA-based Roots of Motive Power.


  • Uniquely wild and crazy, side-by-side, single-wheel unimotorcycle drag racing.


  • The uniquely groovy, customized What’s Up Photo Booth trailer, complete with a fully functional smoke stack and custom designed interior, "Dolores" takes professional quality photos that are printed instantly. Digital photos are also available.


  • Thrilling bungee jump, waterballerz, rock climbing wall, a giant 22’ climb and slide obstacle course and inflatable arena, Birdman Bats Batters Box mobile batting cage, face painting, body art, glitter tattoos and tons of awesome amusements in the Super Duper Funzone.

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Fabulous food and drink with Bloody Mary’s and Coastal Cosmos from Half Moon Bay Distillery, Classic Motorhead IPA and Shiny Object Syndrome Pilsner from Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, tasty varietals from Barterra Winery and craft cocktails from Longboard Margarita Bar.


  • Stellar live music all day.

  • Half Moon Bay Pilots Association Saturday Hangar Dinner at the Andreini Family Hangar (April 25, 5:30 pm) at Half Moon Bay Airport. Enjoy fantastic craft beer from Hop Dogma and great Scottish music by Fret & Fiddle. Tickets are $35 per person, available at the door.

Special Attractions

Among the special attractions this year are Bob Senz’ Big Cacklefest (to honor the show founder) – a mass synchronized firing-up of the engines of all the magnificent machines on display (10am,12pm, 2pm), spine-tingling vintage warbird flyovers (11am and 1pm), spectacular skydiving performances with military style jumps by the experts at Precision Skydiving, electrifying 4-rider freestyle motocross stunt shows with exciting Quad Wars wheel to wheel racing (10:30 am,12:30 pm, 2:30pm), a featured robotics display and demo by Bay Area high school robotics teams and manufacturers, Baylands Quarter Midget Racing Association’s special exhibit of competition-ready mini race cars, wild and crazy side-by-side unimotorcycle drag racing, monster truck rides, P-51 Mustang rides, plus refurbished fly-wheel engines from the Early Days Gas Engine & Tractor Association and meticulously restored logging equipment and artifacts from Willits CA-based Roots of Motive Power.

The Cars

It's one of the west coast's biggest, baddest gatherings of the world's coolest cars. 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.

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