left to right: Howard L. Deshazo, Wally Parks and wife

To Go This Far Was Beyond Our Dreams
by: NHRA Advisor Howard Deshazo
QUOTE FROM AN ARTICLE I WAS PLEASED TO WRITE FOR HOT ROD MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1958:
” On November 5, 1956, at a meeting of the new Big Spring Lions Club, Capt. R. O. Franz, then stationed at Webb Air Force Base, moved that “A Drag Strip For Big Spring” be adopted as the club’s “project of the month.” From that point on, things happened fast. Less than 55 days later Big Spring had its first full-fledged drag event, backed by every civic organization in the city and sanctioned by NHRA. Continue reading →

They said…Go West young man if you want to make it big in drag racing! Well, some of them didnt, they stayed right here in great land of Texas!! Racing at drag strips like….Caddo Mills, Martindale, Double Eagle, Six Flags, Austin Raceway Park, Green Valley and other local places. Was it easy finding the truth, locating them through the internets? Is it written in a book somewhere? Exclusive material submitted by the racers themselves.

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