🚘🔥 Modesto, chrome, rock & roll, and American Graffiti Festival 2026
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
🚘🔥 Modesto, chrome, rock & roll, and American Graffiti Festival 2026
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
🚘 Some communities have landmarks. Modesto California has a soundtrack, a streetlight, a polished hood, and a story that helped shape American pop culture.
On this episode of The Not Old Better Show, Paul Vogelzang talks with Steve Perry and Chris Murphy about the 2026 Modesto Graffiti Festival and Car Show — a celebration tied to George Lucas, American Graffiti, classic cars, radio, rock and roll, and the culture of 1950s–70s Americana.
But this conversation goes far beyond chrome. Steve and Chris share why the Graffiti USA Classic Car Museum matters as a civic project, an educational space, a home for local stories, and a way to preserve memories that may otherwise be lost.
For donors, sponsors, volunteers, and local partners, this is a chance to help Modesto protect its own story — and share it with families, visitors, students, car lovers, and future generations.
🚗 History has horsepower. Check it out HERE> Community gives it a future. Watch/listen: notold-better.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more. |
| 0:15.3 | The show for all of us who aren't old were better. |
| 0:18.2 | Each week, we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary |
| 0:23.6 | things, all related to this wonderful experience of getting better, not just older. Now, here's your |
| 0:29.5 | host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzac. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you, and welcome Queue that great music. |
| 0:41.3 | Bring up that Friday night backbeat. |
| 0:45.3 | Give us a street light, a polished hood, a radio dial glowing in the dark and the sound of an engine that says very clearly, we're not finished yet. |
| 0:55.6 | Today on the Not Old Better Show, we're headed to Modesto, California, of course, home of |
| 1:01.3 | Modesto's graffiti. We'll be talking all about it, but Modesto Graffiti Festival 2026 is kicking off |
| 1:07.6 | June 12th, 13th, and 14th. Check out our show notes for links to Modesto Graffiti Festival 2026. |
| 1:16.9 | Modesto, of course, is the great city with Chrome in its bloodstream, a movie history in the rearview mirror. |
| 1:23.7 | This is the town that helped, of course, inspire George Lucas in American graffiti, that |
| 1:28.6 | landmark film about cars, music, youth, longing, trouble, freedom, and one unforgettable night |
| 1:36.1 | that somehow became part of American memory, but so important to the city of Modesto. So, |
| 1:43.7 | here's the provocative question. What happens |
| 1:47.2 | when nostalgia refuses to sit still? And Modesto, it becomes the 2026 graffiti festival and car |
| 1:55.7 | show. It becomes classic cars, rock and roll, radio memories, family stories, and streets filled with people |
| 2:03.2 | who know that history is not some dusty thing locked away in a cabinet. Sometimes history |
| 2:10.1 | has white walls, fins, a V8, and a song coming through the speakers. And this year the story |
| 2:16.2 | reaches even further because the |
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