Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think some racers may have come from that direction, but my guess is there has been auto racing since the second car was built. Ric On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:27 AM, Bill Smith wrote: > Wasn't stock car racing one of the outgrowths of Prohibition? I > recall the stories of "good ole' boys" loading up the trunks of > their hot- rodded cars to make deliveries of "moonshine" (homemade > whiskey). They had to go fast to outrun the "law." > > Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote: Another part of the cross > culture identity of drag racing may be > financial. > > A lot of small town drag racing is running the car that you drove to > the track. Poorer people can participate because you are more likely > to be able to continue using the car next week going to work -- lower > budget racing. > > Roundy-round racing tends to break cars as they bang into one > another. Then you get into trailering cars and equipment. > > Many of the "racial" barriers we see are actually more social class > or income-based barriers. > > Is it possible to use the word egalitarian when referring to drag > racing? ;^) > > Ric Carter > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies > > > > On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:20 AM, John Mason wrote: > >> Stock car racing was born in the South. It's long >> been a central part of white, southern, working class >> and middle class identity in a way that drag racing is >> not. >> >> Organized drag racing was born in southern California, >> just before and after WWII. White southerners never >> claimed it as their own, as they have stock car >> racing. Originating, as it did, in urban southern >> California, drag racing wasn't particularly concerned >> with policing racial boundaries. I don't know if the >> white drag racers of the '40s and early '50s actually >> welcomed blacks and Latinos, but it's clear that they >> didn't drive them away. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information