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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Search for the ultimate speed on a straight course back in 1930 on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert in California.
The popularity of this accelerating after World War II, when veterans can be combined with the more daring, with the growing industry of U.S. cars to offer a storm with the birth of a wild combination of motor competition was booming, and the body frame makes building hot rods, fast worship.
The popularity of this accelerating after World War II, when veterans can be combined with the more daring, with the growing industry of U.S. cars to offer a storm with the birth of a wild combination of motor competition was booming, and the body frame makes building hot rods, fast worship.
| Drag racing roots run deep |
Wally Parks completed in 1950 was to race hot rods, and not just fashion.
Parks began a safe, controlled environments, in which Southern California rodders mechanical challenge the limits of their creativity and could not find the limits of their machines. His efforts led to the National Hot Rod Association 60 years ago.
Shortly after the race to attract new sport of Southern Nevada accelerate.
Cruise on Main Street in Hot Rod was a cool thing to do before Drag Racing came.
In 1953, a piece of plaster Vegas Valley Drive was organized devoted to drag racing on a part-time. This was the first of eight Southern Nevada drag strips.
"Lived" American Graffiti "," Steve Kirby, a member of the original Las Vegas Hustlers Car Club, said the Review-Journal in 2001. Known point processors, Kirby, 69, died earlier this month.
Other original Las Vegas Drag Racer credit now 70 local automobile clubs hustlers, sinners and crapshooters racing fever, refueling in mid-1950.
No official date of the first drag race in Southern Nevada to be bound, but drag racing almost non-stop - even though sometimes sporadic - from the first race held at Vegas Valley Drive. But it was only five years later that the world's leading Drag Racing Series at Las Vegas.
SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals this weekend marked 12 Year NHRA Pro Tour will visit Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Parks initially put the Speedway dragstrip when the complex was built in the mid-1990s. Dragstrip and its 20,000 seats the stadium is not completed until 2000, a year after the highway from Speedway Motorsports Inc., Parks, who died in 2007 at the age of 94 years, was purchased to see his dream a living reality.
Used car this weekend, space-age material, computers and the latest electronic gadgets that have become billion dollar industry with high performance.
By 1950 and 1960 m were the most popular stores scrap speed and no one was more than up Burt and Cecilia Gibbs North Street store.
"We grew up in a junkyard," said Cecil Fredi, the original Hustler. "We had a love for running without a budget. We hung out at the scrap yard (to find our part)."
Gibbs's son, Fred Gibbs was always there to help in part. The younger Gibbs was also a hot-rodders and raced his heavily modified 1931 Ford Bantam roadster body until his death in 1961, a car accident while returning from the U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships in Bakersfield, California
"Fred was our catalyst, our mentor," said Fred, working to help and drove Gibbs Bantam.
Drag Racing pioneers was the blood and then use the spirit of innovation, speed to find ways to breed. Front-end 1939 and Ford's rear suspension of 1940 Ford Model housing was attached to many of the first dragster.
Flathead Ford and Oldsmobile engines were hot plant. Then came the Chrysler 354 Hemis and soon the Chevrolet V-8.
Add transfer from LaSalle and welding pipes together a number of shortcomings, if you want headband.
Regardless of the parts were put together to Hot Rod does not, then maybe go to a race car until it is safe, legal place to race.
Vegas Valley Drive location, local rodders took place in the race - in accordance with the law. Until that time, club meetings resulted in Las Vegas for car trips and Challenges time to time, often in informal and illegal street race on the outskirts of the city, if only a few blocks from the main street was turned on.
Original Club members remember Sheriff Butch Leypoldt task officers who oversee the race the Vegas Valley Drive. One of her favorites, Las Vegas police officer Dale "Gunsmoke" Swift kept their eye on
"Nobody wanted that race (illegal) started on the streets and the police with us," said Fred.
That first trip lasted dragged into 1954. Side-by-side race by siren, with volunteers tightening race against time from Las Vegas Sports Car Club of the loan. Jack "Ace" Hanley began organizing the weekend events and started the Las Vegas Drag Racing Association.
In 1956, recently announced the players moved to Las Vegas drag and drive the race near the site of what is now the Las Vegas Municipal Golf Course.
Local speedster spent 1957 in the competition for another quarter-mile sidewalk on Highland Drive, near what is now Sahara Avenue.
Only in 1958, when the city of Henderson a piece of asphalt in the area, what Dick Stewart Motors, the first real dragstrip was built in Southern Nevada provided. It was called the Thunderbird Raceway, and is now on a new car showroom in Boulder Highway near Water Street. Henderson track lasted until 1964.
After the closure went two years without a professional place of races, often resorting to the illegal race in the city. Then Stardust Raceway was built at Tropicana Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard. Legendary player "Big Daddy" Don Garlits was one of many top national riders who competed on the track, which is likely from the owners of the Stardust Hotel and Casino was built.
One word comes to mind when Don Schumacher region's first major dragstrip recalls sand.
"When I started racing the Funny Car Stardust Raceway, all I remember is how much sand on the track," Schumacher said, comes from Chicago and one of the first Funny Car craze in the mid-1960s, he began to join. Schumacher, six out of the car in this weekend's event at the LVMs.
Schumacher has a lot of sympathy for the Stardust, but it is about racing and the casino area to the Funny Car sponsored by several years.
Stardust was 1971, when Pardee-Phillips to purchase property through a dark neighborhood.
The area went without dragstrip for eight years, but the races - some right, some not - were on the outskirts of Las Vegas. Southern Nevada Timing Association was founded and staged a race in the southern part of town on old Highway 91, near Jean and Sloan.
"We named him Jean International," said Ken Black, who raced there.
Black, 65, Pro Stock teams won five of the eight NHRA championship last season, he started racing in the mid-1960s and was a regular when Speedrome open on Las Vegas Boulevard North over Nellis Air Force Base, in what is now Las Vegas Motor Speedway property.
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