NHRA Street Racer
Posted by EKF on 4/2/2006, 11:20 am
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EKF=NHRA Street Racers
From LACR's message board over the street race event and how street racers are morons-lol
http://members3.boardhost.com/timmy...1144001068.html--Previous Message--
: Hey you can't hold the World or LACR
: responsible just because you are a Moron.
:
: How’s that for crap tough guy!
Posted by EKF on 3/29/2006, 8:50 am, in reply to "Re: That's Why You Need To Check"
71.116.169.240
Who is holding anyone responsible?
Let see, you race an NHRA track with NHRA rules. NHRA was started by moron street racers and the Santa Ann Police Dept. So that makes you guilty of being a moron just by association of racing at a moron track with moron rules, making you a member of this moron community. (not calling NHRA morons, just stating it was started by street racers who you refer to as morons) oh and BTW it's "MISTER Moron Tough Guy" to you, sir.
--Previous Message--
: You really are a "Moron" the NHRA
: was started by Wally Parks and other members
: of the SCTA (Southern California Timing
: Association) who raced the dry lake beds at
: El Mirage California and the Santa Anna
: Police Dept. had nothing to do with it. It's
: probably a good idea to know what you are
: talking about before you run your mouth!
Posted by EKF NHRA Street Racer on 4/2/2006, 10:04 am, in reply to "Re: That's Why You Need To Check"
207.200.116.131
Wally Parks worked along side with many Law Agencys to make it work,(Santa Ana Police, Pomona Police, Los Angeles Police to name a few) look at what street sign is named after at Pomona Raceway. It's Parker Lane, named after the Cheif of Police who help make it happen. NHRA was started to help curb street racing of the 50's and orginize racers, as was Brotherhood of Street Rcaers was started by the Los Angeles Police Department to curb street racing in the 70's, of which Wally Parks is a member.
Q>If the they raced at the dry lakes, SCTA events then why did they need to form NHRA? NHRA raced a dragstrip, that did not exsist until they did.
A>Many Hot Rodders would get back from the dry lakes and street race around locally, thus the need for a local venue, hence the NHRA.
Insert foot in mouth, who's the moron, and who don't know what he's talking about?
: "It's
: probably a good idea to know what you are
: talking about before you run your mouth!"
You should take your own advice.
In NHRA's own words:
NHRA year two: Building the future,
one fight, one area, one rule at a time
As the newly formed National Hot Rod Association began its first full calendar year of operation in 1952, the process of legitimizing hot rodding was well underway. At Los Angeles-based Hot Rod Magazine, where the genesis of the organization began in March 1951, editor Wally Parks and the officers of the NHRA continued their work to unite the acceleration nation toward a common good.
This also meant obtaining the blessings of and working with local law enforcement agencies to present the true picture of the hot rodding sport. By working with Pomona (Calif.) Police Chief Ralph Parker (pictured), the Pomona Choppers were able to get the city of Pomona to pave an asphalt strip on its Fairgrounds. NHRA also moved quickly and worked aggressively at the behest of regions that were trouble spots for illegal activities.
Organized drag racing
The first drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, began running on an airfield in Southern California in 1950, and quickly gained popularity among the Muroc crowd because of its revolutionary computerized speed clocks.
When Parks became editor of the monthly enthusiast magazine Hot Rod, he had the forum and the power to form the National Hot Rod Association in 1951 to "create order from chaos" by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped legitimize the sport. He was its first president.
NHRA's first races
NHRA held its first official race in April 1953, on a slice of the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds parking lot in Pomona, Calif. Four decades later, that track has undergone a $6-million expansion and renovation and hosts the NHRA season-opening Winternationals and the season finale, the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.
© Copyright 1995-2006, NHRA
From: autoMedia.com 2000-2005
Wally Parks: Motorsports Visionary
NHRA founder and "chairman of the dragstrip"
Chuck Schifsky / autoMedia.com
Any drag race fan who gets the opportunity to meet Wally Parks should really thank him. Although Parks did not invent drag racing, he did found the National Hot Rod Association in 1951 while serving as editor of Robert E. Petersen's budding "Hot Rod" magazine. He says he formed NHRA as a way to promote drag racing and to give fellow hot rodders a place to race other than on city streets. This monumental task, Parks says humbly, was one he couldn't have tackled without the dedicated people who shared his early vision. The tall, deep-voiced Parks said he's always shied away from being called drag racing's chairman emeritus, a title many feel he deserves.
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