When Lions (Drag Strip) Roared! Iconic So-Cal Racetrack History

When Lions (Drag Strip) Roared! Iconic So-Cal Racetrack History - Stacey David's Gearz S17 E8

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This time on Gearz, we race down memory lane with a visit to the Lions Automobilia Museum. The reason? To tell the story of the iconic Lions Drag Strip that gave Southern California hot-rodders and drag racers a home from 1955-1972. You can almost smell the scorched rubber and Nitro as Stacey turns back the clock to a time when a guy in his garage could swap a cam and a carb, and then show up for a Saturday race ready to go! From Hot Rods to Gassers…Funny Cars to Top Fuel, you’re gonna see it all, and get a front row look at the history of the track that helped create the crazy car culture that defined the 1960’s, and the golden era of drag racing. So put on your Rat Fink T-shirt, strap in, and hold on…because we’re going back to a time when Lions Roared!!
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@jordangryg5442 Жыл бұрын

stacy your the one that got me into trucks! and cars , see how i did that ? im 28 now but me and my family watched you on Trucks! ive had over 20 vehicals in my life just because i love cars and trucks , thank you stacy !

@OfficialStaceyDavid 11 ай бұрын

That is awesome!

@jordangryg5442 11 ай бұрын

@@OfficialStaceyDavid just know you are and have been Soneone I’ve looked up to since I was like 10 !

@kellyrepp1746 5 ай бұрын

Boy does that take me home. I spent my teens at Lions. Most weekends and all events, AHRA WInternationals were the high of my year. Saw the crashes of some of the cars shown in the film. Best nostalgic moment.

@theedchannel9295 11 ай бұрын

When I was a young kid, I used to live a few miles away and could hear the engines as they roared down the track. My friends and I would ride our Schwinn stingway bikes there when they were closed and squeeze thru the gaps in the chain link fence and wander around and collect spark plugs that were discarded all over the ground. When I got older, I used to go to the other local strips as well like Irwindale and OCIR (Orange County). As well as Ascot Speedway. Now all closed and paved over. I had not heard of the museum before now but will someday try to visit it. I have some old drag racing photos they might be interested in having.

@bobkanno6797 Жыл бұрын

Spent many days and hours watching and racing at Lions both Saturday and Sunday and back the next week!

@OfficialStaceyDavid 11 ай бұрын

Nice!!

@henrytischbein155 11 ай бұрын

Stacey your shows got me into wrenching on vehicles mainly boats and jet skis and made me think about opening a shop for that specializes and standup jet skis as people that live in my area want to get into them but no shop round here is willing to touch them

@THROTTLEPOWER Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed!!!! 👍👍

@OfficialStaceyDavid 11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@timmerry4610 Жыл бұрын

It is so sad to see all the older big name tracks that are closing up and fading away

@bmstylee Жыл бұрын

Well. Since the younger generation is less and less interested in driving this is what you get. The same way guitar music is getting progressively less and less. Kids aren't interested in learning how to play.

@ericdaugherty3980 11 ай бұрын

This week my local drag strip just closed Atco race way Nj

@Terryadfg 11 ай бұрын

Cool museum! I was at long beach when I was a kid, really nice there, remember the spruce goose,I’m almost 50 so I remember the snake, Shirley, the movie heart like a wheel? Think?

@JuanRodriguez-km9hl 11 ай бұрын

Great show

@DucksChevy 11 ай бұрын

What are you Workin' on? - The car is running and driving, still a few small items to get straight before alignment and inspection. She wants to have it running before school starts in 3 weeks.

@OfficialStaceyDavid 11 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@TundeEszlari Жыл бұрын

Perfect content.

@glenbjack Жыл бұрын

SMH 😂😂😂I wonder how easy to find and cheap those detroit blowers were back then?

@johnglielmi6428 11 ай бұрын

Baby Boomers: Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They're currently between 57-75 years old (71.6 million in the U.S.) Oh Yes Mickey Thomson and Don't forget about Socal with their belly tank racers breaking land speed records! Drag Racing and Salt Flats racing were and are the bomb for me! Yes if Big Daddy Don Garlits didn't have that major engine blowout. The rear engine dragster may never have been created.