23rd Annual Stater Bros. Route 66 Rendezvous

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Dave McClelland 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Dave McClelland – The Voice of N.H.R.A.

Known as the Voice of NHRA, Dave McClelland is one of the most recognizable voices in all of motorsports. He has been heard not only on the tracks, but also on radio and television coverage of the events, a role he filled for some 50 years. Dave has placed his restored Fiat altered in the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum after campaigning the car for 10 years and winning the March meet in 1998, and continues to participate in as many street rod and street machine events as possible.

2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Charlie Tuna – Famed Radio Disc Jockey

Charlie Tuna has been a Radio DJ in the Los Angeles area for several decades. His voice is easily recognized by those who cruised their vehicles along Route 66 in the sixties and seventies. This honor will be added to the others he has received over the years including his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, induction into the National Radio Hall of fame and into his home state Nebraska Broadcaster Association Hall of Fame. His annual “Tunathon” has raised nearly 2.5 million dollars for Children’s Hospital in L.A.

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, The Matich Corporation

The Matich Corporation will join past Lifetime Achievement Award recipients such as Jack Brown of Stater Bros., Dick Dale “King of the Surf Guitar”, and most recently famed drummer of the sixties and seventies, Hal Blaine.

Founded in 1918 by John Matich, Matich Corporation operates out of San Bernardino, Calif. and has been the leader in the construction industry for over ninety years.

More Lifetime Achievement Information

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Hal Blaine

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
HAL BLAINE
Famed Drummer

Deemed the most in-demand session drummer of his era, Hal Blaine played on more hit records including 40 number one singles and 150 that hit the Top Ten. Eight of the records won Grammys for Record of the Year.

Blaine has worked with the likes of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the Mamas and the Papas, Sonny and Cher, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond and countless other popular musicians. In March 2000 Blaine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Wally Parks

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
WALLY PARKS and BARBARA PARKS
Founders of the NHRA and Safety Safari

Wally Parks established the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) in the early ‘50s. The NHRA proved to be an effective means of getting rodders off the streets and into arenas where the environment was controlled and safety issues and training could be addressed.

Almost from the beginning, local car clubs from coast to coast were invited to join the NHRA and to actively participate by holding organized speed events in their hometowns. Members of the NHRA, chosen by Parks, traveled cross-country in what first became known as the Drag Safari and then the Safety Safari. A ’54 Dodge station wagon towed a Viking trailer with all the equipment needed to put together a drag race event. Parks, as editor of Hot Rod Magazine, wisely used the pages of that young magazine to get the word out about the NHRA.

Through it all, Parks’ wife, Barbara, was there to support her husband and do her part in making the NHRA successful. As a testament to his dedication to motorsports, the National Hot Rod Museum in Pomona, CA, bears his name.

2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Barry Meguiar

BARRY MEGUIAR AND MEGUIAR’S WAX are synonymous when it comes to automotive enthusiasts and the maintenance of their vehicles. Now in its second century as a family owned business, Meguiar’s manufactures more than 300 different cleaners, polishes, waxes, and conditioners for not only cars, but also for the home, boats, trains and planes.

2004 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Paul Petersen presented by Jack Brown, President & CEO of Stater Bros.

Petersen is self described as a "product of PR" who is best known for his role on "The Donna Reed Show" playing Donna's feisty son, Jeff Stone from 1958-1966. Soon to follow were hit records, "My Dad and "Lollipops and Roses" along with magazine covers, screaming fans, fast cars, and girls. Petersen is also an author who has written numerous books on various topics.

Being involved with the television and movie industry, Petersen wanted to make a difference in child actors' lives. In 1990, Petersen founded the non-profit organization, A Minor Consideration, to assist child actors and their parents as they face the challenges of the entertainment industry. A strong emphasis is placed on education and preserving income generating from the kids so they have resources available to them when them become young adults.

2003 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, C.W. "Scotty" Scott presented by Jack Brown, President & CEO of Stater Bros.

Organizers of the Route 66 Rendezvous honor Charles W. Scott also known as “Scotty” with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his innovative automobiles which have helped shape and define dry lakes racing. Scott’s first vehicle was a 1922 Chevrolet. He cut the windshield, lowered the top, and traded and bartered for parts. In a trip in the Chevy Scott followed a group of hot rodders to Rosamond Dry Lake. Scott discovered that the group accepted entries on the spot. Entering his vehicle for what he remembers as a fifty-cent fee, he was able to drive his Chevy through the timing lights. Hoping for 100 mph, Scott was disappointed when he reached only 69 mph. Twenty-six years later, in 1953, Scott’s Ardun-Ford-powered B-Class Lakester, driven by Leroy Holmes, would be the first open-wheeled hot rod to average better than 200 mph on the Boneville Salt Flats. Scott has owned and operated his own business, Scotty’s Muffler Service, in San Bernardino since 1938 where he made and sold hot rod parts.

2002 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Jack Brown, President & CEO of Stater Bros. and friends.

A native of San Bernardino, Brown began his career as a Box Boy at Berk’s Market Spot in San Bernardino. Attending San Jose State University and UCLA, he majored in Business Administration, and served in the United State Navy with the Pacific Fleet. Brown has served as V.P. Sales and Marketing for Sage’s Markets in San Bernardino, Corporate V.P. for Marsh Supermarkets Inc. of Yorktown, Indiana, President of Pantry Food Markets in Pasadena, and President of American Community Stores Corp. in Omaha, Nebraska. Brown is now the Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO for Stater Bros. Markets, America’s 2001 Supermarket Retailer of the Year, and one of the nations largest Supermarket Chains, and Southern California’s only locally owned and operated Supermarket Chain.

2001 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Dick Dale

Steve Henthorn, President & CEO of the San Bernardino Convention & Visitors Bureau, along with Paul Petersen present Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar, the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award during a concert at the 2001 Route 66 Rendezvous.