East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame

About Us - A Drag Racing Hall Of Fame For The East Coast

It is hardly a secret that the sport of drag racing set its earliest roots in California. Sources peg the year at about 1938 or 39, perhaps even earlier, but just as the new shoots began to reach skyward, the dark clouds of war postponed such frivolities as the hot rodders found themselves in uniform, off to fight for their country’s survival.

It was during that time of war that these same young men acquired new knowledge and skills that they would utilize for the design, building and competition of automobiles. They returned with their skills vastly improved in the ways to make engines roar and chassis handle the power produced. In the process they met other military servicemen with an equal thirst for the thrill of speed in a machine built, maintained and driven with their own hands. It was from this that a nationwide, coast to coast hot rodding culture was spawned.

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2012 Hall of Fame Inductees

• Chase Knight - Lifetime Achievement Award
• TBA – Wally Parks Motorsports Statesman Award
• Don Carlton – Posthumous Award – Ronnie Sox Memorial Award
• Eugene Coard – Woody Andrews Memorial Award
• Joe Schubeck – Racer
• Greg Sullivan – Collector
• Bill Barrett – Wrench/Engineer
• Pete Hill – Motorcycle Racer
• Lamar Walden – Super Stock Racer & Engine builder
• Harry Hall – Racer, Engineer
• Tim & Beth Hyatt – Racing Service
• George Eisenhart – Multi Track Owner/Operator
• Frank Teague – Teague Automotive Racing
• George Kryssing aka “Poppa Kook” – Kook Headers, Owner & Racer
• Roger Gustin – Promoter