.Challengeher: Give the hot-rodders a place to play:
Automotive hooliganism is in the news. A spectator died during a street take-over in Kansas City, Missouri. Folks keep crashing Challengers into the newly opened Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles. Someone wrecked on a popular canyon road—which happens every weekend, but not always with media coverage.
Just because it's in the news doesn't mean it's new. A paper in Reading, Pennsylvania, reported that Harry Laird and Joseph Wells were disciplined for street racing on January 22. In 1879. The men were told to keep their horses to a walk. In a 1966 police sting in Los Angeles, the cops arrested 66 racers and impounded 29 cars, many of which were “unmistakably modified for racing.
Which leaves me wondering: Why, with more than 100 years of the street-racing "scourge" , do we have so few places to race and do donuts? Newspapers listing arrests and police figures have also published stories suggesting that more racetracks make for fewer street shenanigans. Local tracks have a record of success. Both police and politicians admit that during the heyday of the brotherhood and its Terminal Island drag strip, there was a measurable decline in street mayhem.
"A lot of these kids who attend the takeovers are just looking for something to do," says Donald Galaz, an active member of the Brotherhood of Street Racers, started by the famed "Big Willie" Robinson in the 1960s to stem racial violence and automotive chaos in Los Angeles through legal and organized racing. Galaz points out that racers are educated in automotive work.
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