What got you started drag racing??

Todd Bailey · 03-12-2010, 02:34 PM

Someone should start a poll on WHO got you hooked. Like many here, it seems like the older brothers got us interested in this sport. For me, it was when we moved from New Orleans to a place Southeast of Houston, where my father took a job with NASA. We were all living in a motel and one day I walked out and right in front of our room was Huston(sp) Platt's Altered, injected Chevy II sitting on his ramp truck. He was in town to match race someone at the old Houston International Speedway in Dickinson. I had never even seen a race car in my life other than pictures in magazines. That dragstrip would be where I later first raced a street car and then a racecar. I was there the last (freezing) night they ever ran. Home Depot is the starting line and Best Buy is the top end now.

03-12-2010, 02:34 PM	#28
Todd Bailey Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Houston Posts: 312 Likes: 30 Liked 33 Times in 17 Posts	Re: What got you started drag racing?? Someone should start a poll on WHO got you hooked. Like many here, it seems like the older brothers got us interested in this sport. For me, it was when we moved from New Orleans to a place Southeast of Houston, where my father took a job with NASA. We were all living in a motel and one day I walked out and right in front of our room was Huston(sp) Platt's Altered, injected Chevy II sitting on his ramp truck. He was in town to match race someone at the old Houston International Speedway in Dickinson. I had never even seen a race car in my life other than pictures in magazines. That dragstrip would be where I later first raced a street car and then a racecar. I was there the last (freezing) night they ever ran. Home Depot is the starting line and Best Buy is the top end now.