The Lions Drag Strip Museum was constructed to honor the legacy of SoCal drag racers, both professional and amateur alike.Lions Drag Strip, located in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles ...

The museum was packed. A throng of gray-bearded ... 400 race cars compete to claim the last paychecks issued from Lions Drag Strip. Among the throng was the editor of this magazine.

The streets of suburban southwest Los Angeles County, in the years following the end of World War II, posed an increasing danger to all who used them, according to accident statistics cited in ...

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 museum has seven galleries ... 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.” ...

The action was at Lions Drag Strip, near the corner of Alameda and 223rd, a track where “the noise, the smell and the burning rubber and the smoking tires just captivated me,” journalist Scott ...

Museum curator Greg Sharp says ... Tracks closed, including the Orange County International Raceway in Irvine, Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington and Riverside International Raceway in Riverside.

comes from our gearhead, Speed Channel-watching friend and neighbor, the Cop Across the Street, and his brother John, who keep asking us whatever happened to Lions Drag Strip, the most famous ...

The museum has seven galleries ... 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.” ...