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NHRA Museum Celebrates Cars and Guitars

Although primarily a motorsports museum that displays everything from early dry-lake race cars to modern top-fuel dragsters, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, had long desired to host a stars' cars and guitars exhibit. The necessary impetus came with the 60th anniversary of the Fender Telecaster guitar. According to Cris Mirabella of Mirabella Guitars, "The Telecaster laid the groundwork for many of the modern custom designs of today. And even with all of these modern concepts, the original design still remains a very valid and needed instrument." [Read more]