Wally & Barbara Parks pictures from motor sports photos on webshots

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Uploaded by: nitromaniac

In album: Drag Racer's Autographs

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Date uploaded: Dec 14, 2006

He founded the NHRA in 1951, drag racing�s most successful and influential sanctioning body. The first drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, began running on an airfield in 1950, and quickly gained popularity because of its revolutionary computerized speed clocks. NHRA held its first official race in April 1953, on a slice of the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds parking lot in Pomona, California. Four decades later that track has undergone a $6-million expansion and hosts the NHRA Winternationals and the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals. Now in its fifth decade, the NHRA is the world�s largest motor sport sanctioning with more than 85,000 members, 144 drag strips, 32,000 competitors and nearly 4,000 drag strip events. A Wally Parks statue is outside the museum. Rest ln peace Wally & Barbara, you'll never be forgotten.

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