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In contrast to the hot rod racing popular in the US, this new series uses unmodified "stock cars". The series quickly becomes popular throughout the country. The Sports Car Club of America is founded; Oldsmobile introduces the 88, later to become competitive in racing and the subject of the famous rock and roll song Rocket 88
Newspaper reporter Vanessa Trojan (Lindsay Calkins) is sent to "Anywhere, Washington," to do a feature on two female racing legends. When the women, Jo Leene Dodge (Melene Marie Brown) and Betty Petty (Kimberly Lynn Layfield), take her to a rockabilly house party, a glowing light appears in the night sky and people begin to feel ill.
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
The following is an overview of the events of 1930 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.
Temporary exhibits have also been created to honor participants in hot rodding including Vic Edelbrock, Don Prudhomme, the 1932 Ford, Track Roadsters, Parnelli Jones, and the So-Cal Speed Shop. In 2008, the museum began hosting a special exhibition dedicated to Gale Banks and his contributions to the sport of drag racing.
Pat Flaherty won the hot rod division of Soldier Field's 1949 racing championship. [20] Despite being eclipsed by stock car racing, Hot Rods would still race at the stadium for several years. [70] On July 25, 1954 Soldier Field hosted the Hurricane Hot Rod Association Mid-Season Championship. [6] Following World War II, the stadium held many ...
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a governing body which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world.
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