51³Ô¹ÏÍø

Raceway manager sporting white t-shirt and slicked back hair, talking with Pro Stock and Stock (Factory Experimental) car drag drivers at Pomona Raceway / manager smokes cigarette, pulls names from hat, drivers pose briefly, smile, then walk to stock cars / drivers posing beside stock cars, including DANNY MCGROO and his Plymouth Fury, EARL WADE and his Mercury Comet, GAS RONDA with Les Ritchey's Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt / Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt drag racing from starting position / Mercury Comets drag racing / front engine mounted Top Fuel dragsters racing from starting positions, burning rubber and spewing smoke / Hayden Proffitt driving Mercury Comet to starting line / Earl Wade in Super Stock car / Proffitt and Wade drag racing from starting line. Pomona PVTA drag racing on December 08, 1963 in Pomona, California (Footage by Getty Images)