The Mission: To research, record and preserve the personal histories of the young people from here in the Fox Valley, the Midwest, who played a vital role in merging land speed racing and hot rodding creating modern drag racing. And simultaneously noting the positive benefits that accrued to the lives and avocations of these young people by the very nature of their activities and labors at the track. Jay Thompson

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive

- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth."

Introduction

This on-going documentary details the activities of the young men and women from the Fox Valley in the 1950's and their role in the evolution of hot rods & land speed racing into modern drag racing. And it was that same innovative automotive technology that Detroit automakers' came to embrace in marketing muscle-cars.

Chapter One The Instigators

2005 - 50th Anniversary of the Oswego Dragway

 Chapter Two  The Competitors

 2006 - 50th Anniversary of NHRA's Safety Safari in 1956!

 Chapter Three  The Barbarians

 2007 - Inspired by many true stories and portrayed in numerous Hollywood movies!

Bob Doss & The Gold Agency

Andy Neal, Jerry Tvrdik, and many more, really know how to deliver the goods.

Pre-scanned photos!