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When I was small my dad would always tell me stories of him drag racing, and how fast his old Chevelle was. Unfortunately, I wasn’t born at the time he had it. Drag racing is a huge part of American history, it dates all the way back to around the late 1940s and early 50s. After World War 2 drag racing became very popular among the American people. It mostly started on dry lake beds around the country, this gave the cars they were using enough room to get up to speed. Just like how NASCAR was created from bootleggers drag racing had a little part in this. They increased the power of their cars in order to outrun the cops. This got people thinking; around 1950 the first drag strip was opened. It was called the Santa Ana drag strip; it was created from an old air field where they used the runway as a strip. In 1951 the NHRA was created, the national hot rod association. This caused drag racing to grow to a whole different level. Many people started going out to the track to see what their hot rods could do. As time passed top fuel became a popular spectator sport and many big companies’ like coca cola started to sponsor different teams from top fuel. This sport has had a huge …show more content…

As a young kid I was constantly intrigued by what he was doing. My mom could never seem to keep track of me because I would sneak off to go see what my dad was fixing. The next thing you know I was holding a flashlight for him. This became my new job for years to come, I may as well have had a name tag that said flash light holder because I couldn’t do anything else. As I got older and got my first car, I started to learn how they operate and the engineering behind cars. I began doing oil changes, rotating tires, brakes, and many other little things I learned about on my first car. Around this time, I got a small job to start making some

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