1966-67 drag racing on Green Valley Raceway, Smithfield Texas, probably never before seen, home video

Found on http://www.atomicantiques.com/2010/01/20/green-valley-raceway

Lions Drag Strip Feb 11 1967 weekend advertisment

San Diego Dragway at Ramona 1967

Lions Drag Strip free souvenir program, the Drag Scoop, Feb 7, 1970 (selected pages that aren't full of classifieds)

Thanks to my friends Tris and Terry for letting me borrow this to share with all of you

Getting my day started out right, 1970-71 vintage drag racing

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For another shot of this Cobra, and a write up, see http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bit-player.html

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Coolest photo I've seen all week, Lions dragstrip and a slingshot smokin' off the line

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a 1963 Corvette influenced speedboat design

Pure Hell what a cool dragster

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My '69 Super Bee was having a good time in Hagerstown Maryland, once I learned that the Mason Dixon Dragway was just down the road... I won a trophy!

That was a good looking and good running car, 383, 3spd auto Torqueflite, 3:23 8 3/4, Candy Apple red and black vinyl roof.. even got a best of 18 mpg across country

Trivia, how was a quarter mile chosen as the length of a dragstrip?

From Wally Parks:

We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978

Drag racing Cobra, early, looks like a '64, on of the Cobras equipped with Shelby American Dragonsnake parts

Can't recall where I got the image, but this is the Costilow and Larsen Cobra that won the 1965 US Nationals, CSX2093