There’s nothing quite like the massive Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show. It’s a whimsical, fascinating, amusing, curious and 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 celebrating mechanical ingenuity, power and style.

The 19th annual show takes place on Sunday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Half Moon Bay Airport. The show benefits the Coastside Adult Day Health Center.  

The line-up this year includes:

• Rides on the world’s largest zeppelin airship.

• 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 “Zero” (Japan’s top World War II fighter), the Grumman F6F Hellcat (World War II Navy fighter), the P-51 Mustang (America’s premier World War II fighter), the Hawker Sea Fury British fighter, the P-40 used by the “Flying Tigers,” and Yak Russian fighters.

• A special “green machines” display of advanced technology and alternative fuel vehicles.

• The Blastolene Brothers’ extreme, mega-modified machines.

• Ace aerobatics pilot Eddie Andreini doing fly-overs in his Yak Russian fighter jet.

• “World Record Wonderland” featuring current and former land speed record-holders including the lightning-fast, super-sleek BuddFab Streamliner motorcycle and the legendary Jack Costella’s series of Nebulous Theorem streamliners.  

• A special 50th anniversary celebration of the old Half Moon Bay Drag Strip featuring a replica of Jim McLennan’s Champion Speed Shop world record slingshot dragster, with appearances by his son, Bob McLennan, and Andy “The Rodfather” Brizio, the original starter at the drag strip.

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, 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 40s and 50s, exceptional vintage warbirds, and sport and ultralight aircraft. Thrilling rides will be offered in everything from helicopters and vintage bi-planes to the zeppelin airship and a T-6 military training jet; prices for the rides range from $50-$300.

The most curious and fascinating displays are the large and small engines collected and refurbished by members of the Early Days Gas Engine & Tractor Association. The association’s amazing array of flywheel engines is enough to power antique washing machines, lawn mowers, and an entire Lilliputian factory. On the larger side are several pieces from Roots of Motive Power’s collection of restored logging equipment like spool donkeys and Buffalo Springfield steamrollers.

Rounding out the activities will be radical unicycle dirt drag racing, amusements for kids, food, and live music headlined by the legendary “King of Dieselbilly” Bill Kirchen. 

Spectator admission is $20 for adults, $10 for ages 11-17 and age 65 and older, and free for kids age 10 and under. Tickets are available at the gate only. Half Moon Bay Airport is located on Highway 1, about 20 miles south of San Francisco and 5 miles north of Highway 92. For information, call 650-726-2328 or check out www.miramarevents.com.