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"But we realized that street racing was not a very safe activity. Then Ak Miller and I got together and got a contract with the people who owned the Santa Ana Airport so that we could come in one day a weekend and run drag races there. Well. Ak had his shop going pretty good and I had my shop going, and we put it off and put it off until finally one day in 1951 the guy from the airport called me up and said. "Look. Lou, I've got this guy here named C.J. Hart and he wants to make a drag strip out here at the airport. but I told him that I already had a contract with you and Ak. He's really hot to do this, so I told him I'd call you guys and see what the story is." So I called Ak and we discussed it for a while, and we figured we both just didn't have time for it right now so I called the guy back and told him to let that Hart guy go ahead and set up the drag strip out there. And so ol' C.J. Hart went and set up the nation's first organized drag strip out there at Santa Ana in '51." -Lou Baney, January 1973 Hot Rod magazine interview
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