Pioneers of the Quarter Mile

June 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Major Endorsements for Project 1320

Major endorsements for PROJECT 1320

For Immediate Release

June 22, 2009

Contact: Traci Hrudka

Quarter Mile Entertainment, LLC

Phone: 440.888.0088

hrudka@sbcglobal.net (or)

Steve Cole, WRITEWords

Phone: 330.725.5462

scole@4writewords.com

Parma Heights, Ohio – Traci Hrudka, Chairman of Quarter Mile Entertainment LLC (QME) has announced several organizations and individuals have endorsed the PROJECT 1320… Continue

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 22, 2009 at 1:33pm — No Comments

Petersen Museum Endorses Project 1320

Traci:

The Petersen Automotive Museum endorses Project 1320 and its educational mission. The history of the automobile is young compared to the history of The United States. United States history is young compared to the history of other cultures. But nowhere else on the planet has the automobile become so ingrained in local culture and history than in our country.

Our mission is to explore and present the history of the… Continue

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 19, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

Steve Wolcott, Co-Founder of the NMRA Ford Nationals series, Co-Owner of the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals

"Drag racing is arguably the most participated form of motorsports with established roots going back to the pre-World War II era. Drag racing has always had a unique connection with street performance customers, many of which begin racing with hopped-up street cars and eventually graduate to purpose-built 1/4 mile machines. The history of drag racing is as storied and colorful as the people who poured their hearts and souls into the sport. Project 1320 will help document and record drag… Continue

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 11, 2009 at 9:57am — No Comments

From "BIG DADDY" himself

Traci,

In my humble opinion the Quarter Mile Project has got to be one of the most important projects to be undertaken since I formed the Drag Racing Museum in 1976. It is something that should have been done years ago as we are losing our pioneers every day now and soon there will be nobody to tell the story of how it was "Back in the day".

Don Garlits

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 10, 2009 at 12:04pm — 4 Comments

Hemmings Motor News

STREET RODS AND HOT RODS

Project 1320 aims to comprehensively chronicle drag racing history

We’ve long been familiar with the American Hot Rod Federation and their efforts to preserve hot rod history, and now it seems that a similar group has started to preserve early drag racing history.

Project 1320, which launched last month, aims to chronicle the pioneers of quarter-mile drag racing from the immediate post-war era through the late 1980s via a series… Continue

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 10, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Schumacher Racing

Traci,

You've built a solid foundation and I hope things take off from here. We'll be in Norwalk in a few weeks. I hope you'll be there and look forward to discussing Project 1320 with you. Thanks for all you're doing to preserve the heritage of our sport. Your project will trace our roots to Santa Ana, Union Grove, US 30 Drag Strip, AHRA, NAAR, IHRA and even, for two years, NASCAR. Have fun!

Mike Lewis
Senior Vice President
Don Schumacher Racing

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 10, 2009 at 11:58am — No Comments

From one of my many Uncles

“I want to congratulate Traci (Hrudka) and the rest of the Quarter Mile Entertainment team for launching this very important project. Too many of the drag racing and industry founders have passed away, leaving us with fewer of these pioneers to tell this very important story.

“Project 1320 has seized the moment and the industry, which owes its very existence to these pioneers, needs to step forward and support the effort in every possible way.”

Don Smith

President… Continue

Added by Traci Hrudka on June 10, 2009 at 11:52am — No Comments