Lions Drag Strip was opened in October of 1955 in an abandoned trainyard in Wilmington. The racetrack was one judge’s attempt to cut down on criminal street racing by giving the wayward youth a ...

The L.A. Harbor Commission then agreed to lease an unused railroad switching yard down by the harbor to the Lions Club on a 30-day revokable basis. The new drag strip would be called Lions ...

They pooled their resources by forming the Lions Associated Drag Strip nonprofit group, which signed a lease deal for the Harbor Department land at 22660 Alameda St. in November 1954. LADS spent ...

The Legends of Lions descended on the Long ... to relive some of the stories from their days drag racing in Wilmington. From 1955 to 1972, Lion’s Drag Strip was the heart of Southern California ...

One of the original clubs that helped fund the Lions Drag Strip, this is an important part of preserving the automotive history of SoCal motorsports.” Daughter Tami is fully committed to seeing ...

Just before 5:30 p.m. on March 8, 1970, Don Garlits edged his top-fuel dragster to the starting line at the old Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, the car’s 2,000-horsepower engine belching ...

It is where, in 1954, Mickey Thompson created Lions Drag Strip. "I built and ran Lions Drag Strip for eight years," the brawny and resourceful Thompson explained to Hot Rod magazine's Gray ...

One of the original clubs that helped fund the Lions Drag Strip, this is an important part of preserving the automotive history of SoCal motorsports.” Daughter Tami is fully committed to seeing ...