It's been discussed here in the past but if you haven't seen it yet, METV will be broadcasting the Adam-12 segment featuring drag racing this Thursday (11/5) at 5pm. Starring Dick Clark as the promoter of Benson Dragstrip (Lions) it's a dumb story but the episode shows Lions as it was in the last days of it's existence. Enjoy...
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One of the cars in that show was a 1954 Ford 2 door. Used to see it at San Fernando. Had a 352 Ford engine, the first big block Ford. Would run 11.90's way back then. Finally got it into the 10's. One of the Dragster Insider blogs had info on that car from the man's son. You're right, the episode was silly, but hey, it was Lions.
Thanks for the heads up
Keeping it in the family
Racers love competing at the Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline for a lot of reasons. Eastern-based competitors love to head to SoCal for sun and fun. And the facility is conveniently accessible from several major freeways, including Interstate 10, the nation's main...
Found the Dragster Insider blog & it has a link to the Adam 12 episode (that's 10 years old). Happy reading Adam 12 fans.
OK, forget the Hulu link. Doesn't work.
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Fan fotos: SoCal doorslammers
Long before there were nitro Funny Cars and even what we know as Top Fuel dragsters, door cars and roadsters often attracted the same fanatic love to which we now assign the nitro cars. I know that I have a fuel-racing mentality – particularly for 1970s-era Funny Cars -- but I also love a good...
Sorry I'm posting so much, but this link is a follow up to above, & shows a lot of the ET cars I remember from those days, including Well's Ford. Also Willy & one of the Wings & Bill Jenkins.
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glofria
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The '54 Ford belong to Ted Wells and the Camaro belong to my dad. This was set up by one of my dad's racing buddies Al Aird who was also a Sargent out of the West Valley Division. Ted was my dad's shop foreman when VHS was in Tarzana. Ted was also step-father to Nancy Matters who runs a N/FC out of Texas.
I was 7 when that when that aired. You can watch Who Won? on youtube though.
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glofria
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I was thinking you would post Gino.
When Ted left VHS, they moved to Missouri and he passed away since then. Best to ask Nancy, I think she's on here from time to time.
