Described as so many types of festivals all in one (food fest, music fest, car show, air show, boat show, maker fair, and more), of course, I'm there! But not quite... still had to sit through a line of traffic on Cabrillo Highway leading to the free spectator parking lot at Half Moon Bay Airport in the morning (30 min wait, one mile from the turn into the lot). But it was all worth it in the end. FYI, the wait for parking was only 30 minutes around 10am when the event opened, but my friend who arrived around noontime had about an hour wait, so if you wanna avoid traffic, you probably need to come early or much later, or bike from nearby, or have Uber drop you off on Cabrillo Highway then walk. Endless cars, aircrafts, vintage boats, tractors, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, military vehicles, a B-17 plane (visitors could go inside), 1904 Holsman (Hi-Wheeler), 1892 Columbia Full-Nickle High Wheel (bike), helicopter rides, Pacific Bus Museum and Niles Canyon Railway exhibits, there were a lot of cool and unique demonstrations and "dream machines" to experience, including antiques and futuristic... even a flying car (Alef) on display! Also got to watch the FIRST robotics competition by high schoolers, which was interesting, and enjoy wonderful live entertainment. The stage had a really great speaker system and sound quality, and the musicians performing were even better, engaging the crowd with the sounds of country, blues, and original songs. There were several picnic tables for eating and bales of hay for seating in front of the stage. Inside the food court were several food trucks and stands including Sam's Chowder Mobile, where we enjoyed some delicious and perfectly cooked fish and chips and a cup of warm and flavorful new england clam chowder (Sam's is always dependable in terms of quality). Our group also tried some garlic fries, crab fries, and a corn dog from other food stands, and everything had really good flavor at what you would expect from fair food in terms of pricing. The beer and wine were good too, of course the red blend coming from Half Moon Bay Winery (Braggers & Liars). The alcohol stands only accepted cash, about $7 per glass. Note, the food lines at the food court (same area as the entertainment stage) were super long, especially later into the day. But the lines at the few food stands in other areas of the event, placed randomly between exhibits, were much shorter. This is an awesome family-friendly event with plenty to do and see for people of all ages, certainly worth the cost if you're into vehicles of any kind or festivals of any kind. And you can bring your own food/drinks if you don't wanna wait in the lines at the venue. Plus, proceeds from the event are used to support the Coastside Adult Day Health Center, which is cool. We had an amazing time, walked away with cute shirts with awesome designs from one of the vendors on site, as well as great memories. read more

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The Pacific Coast Dream Machines is a local HMB festival that celebrated classic cars, WW2 style airplanes, and yes music and food. Its held at the HMB airport, which happens to have a gigantic grassy field to accommodate everything. Proceeds for the 2017 event ($25/pp entry) goes to supporting healthcare for seniors. We were not originally planning to attend this event, but found out about it by chance after having brunch at HMB Brewing Company. Apparently you can literally walk to the airport a little ways from the restaurant! Overall, it was a fun festival. I like to compare it as a hybrid of Gilroy Garlic Festival and Blackhawk Auto Museum. Nearly all of the car exhibits had independent owners and many of them use this festival to sell. We saw some pretty amazing cars, and the oldest one being this 100+ year old piece that tops out at a whopping 20 mph! There was also a wicked looking motorcycle with pistols as handlebars. Definitely spells trouble for road rage. We got there a bit late so missed out on a few exhibits like motorcycle stunts, skydiving, and some drag racing. read more

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Whoh! Awesome exhibition at Pacific Coast Dream Machines! The entrance fee is minimal at 25 dollars- all proceeds go to support Coastal Seniors. I enjoyed looking at vintage cars, various antique dream machines, various airplane/ motorcycle air/ musical shows. There were even fun cars and an airplane ride. Everyone is free to bring down an interesting vehicle and tell their story about it! There are cars, boats, motorcycles off-road vehicles, airplanes --you name it they got it! Fun fun fun read more

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I went and entered my car in the event for the 1st time this year. I had a great time with my car club members, but the event itself has some huge holes compared to other car shows. Here's the problems, and my car club and other car clubs are willing to help next year be better if they will listen and take advice. 1st: huge event spread across an airfield, however there was zero music or PA system near any of the cars. No one knew what was happening at anytime. 10,12,2pm engine start up times were a failure, everyone wanted to be included but it was unorganized. 2nd: They promote that over 2,000 cars attend, and that's a true possibility, lots of vehicles were there. I go to 10+ car shows a year, and I've never paid $40 early bird fee, or a $50 day of fee. This is expensive compared to most.... still not the issue The issue is you give away only 3 awards, 1 crystal award to a $150,000 custom build (that car wins year after year and is in your promotions), a T-Shirt to 2nd and 3rd place (same $100,000 custom build). Really, you collect Tens of Thousands of dollars and give that shitty amount of awards. No classic division, no muscle car, no nothing. Complete garbage. How do you vote for "cool" car? Obviously these 3 winners were event friends because they had VIP parking positions at the start of the event and they were all full of hugs at the awards ceremony. Pissed everyone off I was with, most inside jobs are hidden a little better. Give something to the people who paid the $40-$50 and worked hard on their cars. Because of the cloudy sky's all day, they cancelled the sky divers, and had about 5 single plane fly overs. Cool but it's an airport, we literally saw more personal planes fly in then the event planes. For a carshow featuring planes and helicopters, I guess I expected an air show/carshow standard minimum. Lots of stuff for the kids, and food prices were fair. Very week vendors, some vendors were selling 3 brown T-shirt's for $10. Is this a carshow or a swap meet? I get it, let anyone make money. I came with $200 cash to spend on a car part or something car related and walked away with $200 in my wallet. Here's a easy fix, Place speakers throughout the whole area, it's possible, most car shows do this. Or park the cars of a carshow around the stage, not the stage way over there away from the carshow. And fix your awards show from being "Fixed" before the day of the event. I'm going to post a few photos of recent awards from events that charge $20 fee. I'm quite sure I wouldn't have won anything but seeing other cars and real amateur car lovers win something is what it's about, not the $150,000 same car win year after year. read more

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Incompetent . Don't go to this event. We spent $70 for advanced tickets. Spent 1.5 hours traveling 1 mile on North Hwy 1 near the airport around 11 AM, and the only forward motion we had was when somebody in front of us gave up, pulled out of the line and turned around, then the line would advance one car length. Utter waste of money and a whole lot of time. Saw NOTHING. Eventually we gave up too. Do not go to any Eventbrite affair, they are not competent. Definitely will never attempt that again. Money to charity? I think I see. What percentage to charity??? read more

Buying tickets was a big mistake, we paid $100 for NOTHING. All we saw was the car in front of us in traffic and a couple of planes flying overhead. The event management provided no traffic control so we drove to half moon bay to circle the airport in a terrible traffic jam and then went home. read more

As long as Mike Hennessy is a judge, I will not go. The worst repair shop you could go to. Professional excuses is what he excels in. Due to the worst work you can find. I have talked to numerous people that have been over charged, and had horrible work done. He doesn't care and charges you anyway. Photos are the body work he did. ( I have many more) All had to be redone. Is he making it right? NO Had the car 3 years. Claimed he spent $60,000 in labor with no time cards. Not a true car guy, just a self promoting flake my opinion. Need a car attorney. Maybe a class action suit? read more

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Just got back from checking out the Dream Machines at the HMB Airport. It was really neat! It's great to see restored cars & motorcycles. It was also fun to watch the old planes fly! $20 for admission (pp) which included parking...not bad! The money raised when to a great cause so it's worth it. It was strange yet interesting to see a booth for the Hells Angels! Would definitely go again... read more

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What? Is the entrance fee is $25 per person? Half the price when you come 1-2 hours before the event ends? Parking is $10? The prices on your website and the prices told at the actual event do not concur. I paid $20 for both my S/O and I (because it was half price by the time we got there), but sheesh, that can really cost you an arm and a leg when you're bringing a family. You would probably enjoy this event if you're into tractors, old cars, biplanes, and war birdies. I am rating this two stars because I expected more. I attended this event twice, one as a kid and the other in highschool. The huge part of the show are suppose to be the airplanes! Both old and new! From what I remember, the airshow ran through the whole event. I am even more disappointed on how poorly this event handled traffic. It literally took an hour and a half to get in and worse to get out. Why would you have one entrance to get in and out? You couldn't use the other side to open up and let half of the people through?! That way, half of the people can park by the car exhibit and the other half start by looking at the planes?! Ugh. I was very disappointed. All I really want is to see an air show damn it! And at this point, it'll probably never happen. Don't remind me of the blue angels flying over San Francisco either, too crowded and no parking. Sorry Dream Machines, I hope I don't dream about you, otherwise, it would be one heck of a nightmare. read more

Great car show with lots of extras! Well worth the cost to get in! You will see many vintage cars, trucks, airplanes, steam engines, airshow, stunt show, music, food, venders and lots more! read more

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$20 for admission is not bad???? No, you're right. It's not bad if you make $80K or more a year. It's not bad if you love street rods and tractors. It's not bad if you love small planes and war birds. It's not bad if you love supporting the one and only one benefactor of the funds raised. It's not bad if you are only paying for 1 or 2, but imagine having to pay for a family!!! I'd love to pay $20 for less cars, more planes, more air show and maybe if the money I was shelling out went to abused animals or sick sea life. I see it's coming up again in just over a week. I see I'm still too broke to go. read more

Pacific Coast Dream Machines is a favorite of Spring ritual. Absolutely off the charts amazing music - every year! Greatest fun filled day with locals and visitors. All of the proceeds benefit the local Adult Day Health Center - which is an amazing cause and this is the largest fundraiser of the year for ADHC. The cars and plans are interesting - I'm not that much into it after a few dozen - but always something interesting. I've been every year and certain will not miss this one! read more

Still a fun day, but they raised the ticket cost and had far fewer vintage aircraft with minimal fly by's. Been coming to this for years and now question the value! read more

The 2016 Dream Machines is the third I've attended and by far the worst. Part of the trouble was the weather -- constant 30-40 mph winds; they had to cancel some of the events (skydiving, etc.) because of this. Yeah, they can't control the weather, but April in HMB is ALWAYS windy; they could reschedule it a few weeks later, mid-May, when the weather is reliably calm. But much more of a problem were the faults of the organizers and their lack of sensible organization. It begins with when you approach the airport to park: they take admissions from the drivers of cars. This is utterly stupid. First, because many SUVs, minivans, etc., carry 8-10 people. How can they tell how many passengers there are? If it was cheap to get in, this might not matter as much, but it's $25 a head, so some people may try to cheat, and doing so would be dead easy. But worse, this means that while the driver is fishing around for his wallet, counting out cash, etc., it pushes the line-up of cars behind them that much further. It's also cash-only, which probably comes as a surprise to many attendees. The result is that the back-up of cars waiting to pay and park took 30 minutes. RIDICULOUS. Furthermore, my wife is disabled (stage-IV cancer) and we have a disabled placard. NOT ONE of the three parking attendants knew where we should park. Once you get in, the attractions, events, etc., stretch on for about 1/2 mile in a LOOOOONG string of vendors, space, attractions and rides, space, display areas, space, etc. There's some tarmac for walking on, but often, one is forced to head off across the very bumpy grass just to get from point A to point B. Also, the food selection was TERRIBLE. The only vegetarian food that we could find was from a southern food truck and I literally had to stand in line for 40 minutes just to get two orders of "old bay" French fries. read more

It's at Half Moon Bay Airport. Sensational!! LOVED the cars, planes, heli's, military vehicles, Air Crane, custom bicycles, food, parking, kids rides, music, sunshine, beach, & everything else! $20/adult admission. Kids 10 & under free (thankfully) Highly recommend! Make it a full day event & wear a sun hat! Cons- -If there were recycle bins, they were poorly marked. -Kids rides were expensive & had LONG waits. Kids still loved it. -Having gang displays/around made me uncomfortable. Hell's Angels had a large booth & I was unclear of the purpose. Couple members of notorious other gangs were there(with their families). Seemed perfectly fine, but why project gangs at the family events? Maybe I've watched too many documentaries on Discovery. Cannot wait for 2013!! read more

This have been one of my most exciting day of my life. Especially that I won the ticket for that super cool event. I love everything about it. I have to say that I love flying in the rare plane. Which is weird cause I usually don't like flying in a plane. I got to see bunch of those cool oldies cars, planes, and motorcycles. I got really cool stuff there. I really enjoy there. I would love to come there for next yr even though I won't win no ticket from the tv station next yr. read more

Fun Times!!!! I've only been once with a friend of mine, yes, it's quite a drive from where I live, but well worth it. So, you pay the admission to get in, and then walk around and see cool cars, planes, and everything else on display. When we were there you could pay extra to go up in a plane ride, we didn't do that though. It looked like a fun option though. One vehicle, if I call it that, or should I say more specifically helicopter it TOTALLY stood out was way super huge big, with massive blades, this thing could haul huge loads, didn't see it in action. Then there was other stuff; Could watch demolition derby/car race. It was a fun day spent out at HMB airport. read more

Do you like the smell of fuel, the sounds of antiquated war planes, and the look of tired, second-class "hot rods" - paired with drunk idiots weaving across the highway, and a crap ton of traffic? If so, this event is for you! You'll spend 2-5 hours in stand-still traffic getting there, and 2-5 hours of stand-still traffic getting out. There are a few planes worth seeing once (they seem to be the same every year), but the cars...not so much. The other events are standard fair crap you'd see at any other festival or fair across the state. read more