Vintage Lions Drag Strip Footage circa 1958
 

Sure, there might be nothing groundbreaking about this week's "Hump Day Holeshot," just about 5 minutes of grainy, sepia-yellow film footage from a hand-held camera up in the grand stands at the now-defunct Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, California, but it's the history enclosed in these short few minutes of film that's worthy of this week's column.

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