Larson is from just North of Harrisburg, Pa., a few miles of Pa. Rt. 22, and every November he opens his family 'barn' to racing fans, who often bring their drag-racers, for his annaul "DRAG-FEST" , a well-attended car-show/bench-race/lie-telling session:Nytro said:Not to jack the thread but I have to comment on USA-1's signature. I grew up in the northeast and have a few friends who ran at New England Dragway. I believe I was at the annual funny car meet that the picture depicts in your sig. Larson was a great Northeast racer. I have a very good friend who originally ran the Dodge Fever A-100 wheelstander Rich Travers. I have a way cool video that Rich put together from the old days. I went to New England Dragway the first day it opened. Remember this Larson car ?
of Larson's cars on-display is the National Record-holding Camaro (7.41 in '68? ) you show, the '78 Corvette in my signature, an early-'60s Cobra that he won the Winternationals with 40+ years ago, and his '89 World Champion Oldsmobile, as-well-as trophies, fire-suits, Christmas Trees from torn-down tracks, etc.
During the '05 "DRAG-FEST" , I asked Larson if he'd mind me having my '82 'painted-up' like his '78 when I begin racing in Florida, but he asked that since he still makes exhibition runs in the North-East to kindly-NOT do that, which I will be respecting.
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The 'barn', located at the edge of a nice neighborhood, draws many old-time race cars, that are trailered-in for the day:
in '04, this car's owner, unable to find a parking-spot near the barn, unloaded his car several blocks away, and DROVE this car into it's parking space, it's super-charger cackling in the cool morning air!
Oddly, Larson says he never raced at my old home-track, the old Keystone (now Pittsburgh ) Raceway Park, just-off the same Pa. Rt. 22, about 175 miles to his West, in all his years of barnstorming the country.....
