Words by Darr Hawthorne |
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| On one of the few Saturday nights not taken up by tight NASCAR Late Model racing on Irwindale’s fast ½ mile asphalt oval, the 1/8 mile Irwindale Dragstrip promoted a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of drag racing on a once-in-a-lifetime date; 7/07/07. Some very cool drag cars showed up to pound the track with a handful of restorations trailered in from the nearby Wally Parks Motorsports Museum and a group of fuel Cacklecars that arrived to give the fans in the stands a strong dose of nitro. | |
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| (above) Legendary drag racer “TV Tommy” Ivo was peaking over the cowl in the cockpit of Ron Johnson’s dragster nicknamed the “Barnstormer”. Ivo pushed down in the dragster from the Irwindale top end and revved the nitro burner in front of the crowd in the grandstands to wild applause. | |||||
| (below) The Ewald Brothers “Bank-Americar” and “Mastercar” lined up for a trip down the strip with John Ewald and legendary dragster pilot Bob Muravez recreating a classic scene from Saturday nights of the past. | |||||
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