Lions Last Drag Race Reunion

22ND CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION, FAMOSO RACEWAY, Oct. 18-20, 2013 Sunday Racing It’s amazing to see what amounts to flat open land around the Famoso dragstrip transform into a small “city” during Hot Rod Reunion.  The population of that 3-day “city” Read More

    Robert Overholser in the California Hustler on his way to winning   A hot Saturday produced a track temperature of 152 degrees and hinted at the sizzling night of racing to come.  Friday night test and tune had affirmed that points leader Dan Horan, Jr.’s Read More

40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST DRAG RACE AT LIONS, December 1, 2012, NHRA Museum, Pomona, CA It was a damp, dreary, dark, chilly day:  December 2, 1972, the last drag race at Lions Drag Strip, Long Beach, CA. It was a damp, dreary, dark, chilly day:  December 1, 2012, the 40th 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