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Jnaki, I'm happy to learn your brother's name and about his A/S wins at Lions in 1959. I've been compiling a list of Nisei drag racers and their...
Generally I wasn't able to find them unless they won as newspaper results only listed them if they won their class. Some of them beat the pants...
I just stumbled on your request for help on your book project. If you are still actively working on your book, I think I may be able to help quite...
I've been researching Nisei drag racers in the 1950s. I have a spread sheet of over 200 entries with their drag racing results. Some of these...
It has been awhile since anyone contributed to this thread, but I have created a website devoted to the pioneering women drag racers of the first...
I'm coming to this thread years later, but in researching Donilson's death for a revised version of my Drag Strip Deaths website, I stumbled on a...
My website devoted to pioneering women drag racers only includes women who competed against men. It does not include the powder puff women racers....
My website is called "Women Drag Racers: Pioneers of the First Three Decades." "Speed Queens of the Drag Strip" is just the header on each page....
For those who like early rear-engine dragsters, I compiled a photo-listing of many rear-engine cars that pre-date Garlits' successful car that...
I saw a need for this a few years ago and began compiling a website which includes overview histories of more than 1,000 U.S. drag strips. I...
I'm trying to find out more information about a couple of old Alabama strips for my Drag Strip List website. I know a little bit about Andalusia...
I'm trying to find more info about a Tucson drag strip that opened in 1959 called Avra Valley Drag Strip. I have only found one newspaper article...
I'm trying to find out more info about a couple of strips in Little Rock for my Drag Strip List website. In about 1959-63 there was a strip about...
Budd's Creek, later known as Maryland International Raceway, was first called St. Mary's Drag-O-Way when it first opened in 1966. It was called...
One of the readers of my Drag Strip List website told me that his father used to compete in drag races at Eau Gallie Speedway (also known as...
I'm trying to find out what year that Twin City Dragway (aka Golden Triangle Drag Strip) closed. I have found newspaper articles about it through...
Fresno Dragways in central California held a four-wide drag race on July 20, 1963. [ATTACH]
This is interesting. I loved reading the NHRA bit about four-wide-mania. I was shocked to learn that they ran four jet dragsters side-by-side at...
While doing research for Drag Strip List, my online encyclopedia of historic U.S. drag strips, I started thinking about different aspects of drag...
I just found a clipping from a July 1963 Louisville newspaper reporting that Peanuts Moore won top eliminator and stock eliminator honors at...
I'm trying to find out if Green Acres Dragway was ever opened for racing in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. It was anticipated that it would be open...
One of the Virginia drag strips that I'm trying to find out more about was Lonesome Pine Drag Strip in Coeburn. I think it ran from about 1964 to...
Mansfield has an interesting early history in drag racing. For several years, the Gents car club conducted races in the mid-1950s on a 1/5th-mile...
Yes, there was a dirt drag strip built by the Slow Pokes car club on Lake Murray State Park land located just east of the airstrip on the...
It was located on County Road 232, five miles north of Hanover. You can read about it in the online encyclopedia of U.S. drag strips that I am...
I definitely am interested in those who died on the salt and dry lakes. I have a website expressly devoted to them. Click on Land Speed Racer...
Harold Nicholson crashed at San Fernando during eliminations on Nov. 22, 1959. He was taken to Sun Valley Hospital where he died a short while...
What's a necrologist you ask? It's a guy who compiles lists of those who have died. In my case, I have created the most comprehensive list of...
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