FESTIVALS

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 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 show's first ever super-gnarly Demolition Derby; the titanic, hard-to-fathom, gasp-inducing world's largest monster-cycle -- named "Dream Big", the custom-built motorcycle weighs 6,500 pounds and is 11 feet tall and 20 feet long with 10-foot handlebars and 6-foot tall, 3-foot wide tires; the Northrop-produced aviation design wonder "Flying Wing," a long-range bomber with two wings and no fuselage; the world's fastest and loudest jet-powered "rocket bike" and myriad speed machines in World Record Wonderland;and much more!

See a special display of magnificent military aircraft including an F/A-18 Hornet, the Estrella Warbird Museum's historic Douglas C-47, an array of P-51 Mustangs, a massive U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport aircraft and an impressive lineup of T-33, T-6 and T-28 military fighters and trainers. 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 a T-6 military trainer and P-51 Mustang -- rides range from $40-$600.