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1946: Restless young adrenaline junkies turn to hopping up cars speed contests and bad behavior spill onto the streets of America, giving the boys and their fenders jalopies something of a reputation. Where speed and testosterone is involved, competition will naturally ensue, and with the dry lakes far from civilization, thrifty tinkerers kept their exploits closer to home. Games included Chicken, where two opposing cars would accelerate toward each other to see who would spook first Crinkle-fender, where moving cars would hit each other without wrecking and Pedestrian Poker, where a driver tried to brush (but not actually hit) pedestrians. The public was getting fed up.1941-45: World War II gives a generation of American boys engineering know-how, thanks to the aircraft industry requiring ever-better planes for the war effort, and others a taste for speed and derring-do for the same reason.Parks starts the Road Runners Club in 1937.
Early 1930s: The dry lakebeds of Southern California were wide-open and available to hot rodders to drive as fast as they dared.1913: Wallace Gordon “Wally” Parks was born in Goltry, Oklahoma. His family moved to Southern California in the early ‘20s. You will see his name again in this story.Wally Parks (photo: Tom Medley/N.H.R.A., via New York Times) From those humble beginnings to modern times, when a modern Top Fueler can go 0-1000 feet in a tick over three seconds at speeds topping 330mph, we present a brief history of drag racing, hitting important milestones along the never-ending quest for the perfect pass. In truth it’s a postwar phenomenon, with roots stretching back to dry lakebed racing in Southern California in the 1930s. Drag racing seems like it’s been with us forever.