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

There's nothing quite like the Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show — Half Moon Bay'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 world's coolest cars of every era and style, model-T fire engines, vintage buses, 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. The 19th annual show takes place on Sunday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Half Moon Bay Airport, located in the picturesque seaside town of Half Moon Bay about 20 miles south of San Francisco. The show benefits the Coastside Adult Day Health Center.

Headline attractions include one-of-a-lifetime rides on the world’s largest Zeppelin Airship “Eureka”, a super-gnarly Monster Truck freestyle exhibition with Tony Canedo’s "Play’n For Keeps" crushing cars, doing jumps, catching massive air and making big noise; military aviation wonders like the Japanese A6M Zero (Japan’s top World War II fighter), Grumman F6-F Hellcat (World War II Navy Fighter), P-51 Mustang (America’s premier World War II fighter), Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, Hawker Seafury British Fighter and YAK Russian fighters; a special “Green Machines” display of advanced technology/alternative fuel vehicles; the Blastolene Brothers' extreme, mega-modified machines; ace aerobatics pilot Eddie Andreini doing fly-overs in his YAK-9 Russian fighter jet; “World Record Wonderland” featuring current and former land speed record holders including the lightning fast, super sleek BuddFab motorcycle streamliner and the legendary Jack Costella’s series of Nebulous Theorem Bonneville streamliners; and a special display celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the former Half Moon Bay Drag Strip featuring a replica of the late Jim McLennan’s Champion Speed Shop world record slingshot dragster and rare photos with appearances by his son, Bob McLennan, and Andy “The Rodfather” Brizio, the original starter at the Drag Strip which started 50 years ago, in 1959, at Half Moon Bay Airport.

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.  

Hundreds of aviation wonders are expected to be on display — stylish homebuilts, classics from the 40's and 50's, exceptional vintage warbirds, and sport and ultralight aircraft. See a spectacular display of meticulously restored military marvels including the Southern California Commemorative Air Force’s Japanese A6M Zero fighter and Grumman F6-F Hellcat along with an impressive array of  P-51 Mustangs, Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, Hawker Seafury British Fighter, T-33, T-6 and T-28 military trainers, and YAK-9 Russian fighters. Many will be doing spine-tingling fly-overs during the show. Thrilling rides will be offered in everything from helicopters and vintage bi-planes to the Zeppelin Airship and a T-6 military training jet—rides range from $40–$300.