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Re: non lsr Worlds Oldest Dragstrip(Dust Devils)

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: non lsr Worlds Oldest Dragstrip(Dust Devils)
From: John Szalay <john.szalay@att.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:12:11 -0500
At 08:44 AM 11/23/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Rich,
>My dad took me to Santa Anna in June or July of '49 for my birthday.
>Spectators, must have been several hundred, could go anywhere.


  Started going to the drags with my cousin in 1958 at the old 
Kahuku airstrip in Hawaii, back before they opened the Campbell 
race course.
he ran a 32 coupe with a Hilborn injected
flathead.  
body & rollcage with no floorpan at all. so weird to see the
runway below and have gravel bounce up into the car.
damn we were stupid then, had a lot of fun, but dumb..
 
Used to watch Roland Leong, before he took his
cars to the mainland to race.





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