I was down in Roanoke VA visiting a friend and he took me to this museum, low and behold a Lynwood welding chassis. Pat
Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. Also brought me to see this, the largest man made star in the world. Pat
Great photo of a historic FED from the early 1960s drag race scene. Hello, Nice find in that auto museum. The places the early drag racers called home were the primary drag race locations, all across the USA. Most drag racers did not travel beyond the local areas unless it was for a one time national event, like the Nationals in Detroit, OKC, and other places. The team of Tommy Ivo and Don Prudhomme started it off with the tours all over the USA with the twin Buick FED. But, this gathering in the later 60s was a good one at Lion’s Dragstrip. That was our own “home court.” As it was for 1000s of drag racers in the vast So Cal drag racing scene. Lion’s Dragstrip was the place. The scales and the tech inspection booth in the far background area to the right corner of the photo. Pictured here at a big Lions meet, the Albertson Olds is at the far end, preceded by Joe Tucci's Lyn-wood Welding Chrysler, the Mudersbach-Herbert Cams twin Chevys, the Guzzler Chrysler of Chicago's John Kranenburg, the Magwinder, the Howard Cams-Chrisman twin, and Hayden Proffitt's Miss Tuned blown Chevy. The little house in the background was the scale and tech inspection area. Once everyone got into the pits with their cars, that little orange ticket booth style structure was the next step. One of my last photos from the Lion's Dragstrip era... Our friend, Atts Ono on the scales in 1964 prior to being classified B/Gas for his newly built 40 Willys Coupe. Jnaki Colton Dragstrip in So Cal, a few miles East and inland from Lion’s Dragstrip. November 1960
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