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MARCH MEET 2012,  Famoso Raceway     With the sun setting on the closing moments of the 2012 March Meet, top fuel finalists Jimmy Young and Rick White pulled to the line.  At the light the fuelers blasted all out down the track.  At the finish line both cars were blowing Read More

LIONS LAST DRAG RACE REUNION, December 3, 2011 Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, Pomona, CA To only consider the infamous “Last Drag Race” at Lions is to miss the rich and colorful 17 year history of the drag strip.  The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum did an excellent job Read More

  One hundred and thirty years ago in October the big guns of the gunslinger era gathered at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ.   In October, 2011 the big guns of the nitromethane era gathered at Famoso Raceway for the 20th Annual Hot Rod Reunion. Nitro filled the air for Read More

 NOSTALGIA FALL CHAMPIONSHIPS,   October 15-16, 2011, Famoso Raceway With California Hot Rod Reunion happening next week-end, you might think the Nostalgia Fall Championships held this past week-end at Famoso Raceway was the calm before the storm.  You would be wrong.  About 240 Read More