Brooks' Photos

[T Bolt]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Thank you David and Glenn.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I got just a few shots in the dusk. It got rained out and the lightening was getting a bit dicey to.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots Aaron!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man that is just so fricken cool! Great job Aaaron!

 

[Crimea_River]

Neat!

 

[Shinpachi]

Might be more powerful than video

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Thank you guys, we got rained out before the Fuel Funny Cars finished. So I didn't get any more shots. I really wanted to the the Top Fuel Rails in the dark like I did a couple years ago.

 

[ontos]

Great capture on those flames Aaron, you get all the fun

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

You get the aircraft Merv, I get the cars.

 

[GrauGeist]

You get the aircraft Merv, I get the cars.

The sad thing is, Aaron, that Southern California had the world's first and the world's most, dragstrips at one time.

Now, there's very few left...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I know Dave, their down to one now. Pamona.

 

[GrauGeist]

Well, there's Pomona, yes...but there's a couple others, also:
L.A. county Raceway in Palmdale and a drag racing facility at Fontana Speedway.

There's total irony in the dragstrip at Fontana, too. That area used to be home of the Kaiser Steel mill and complex. The surrounding areas had wrecking yards with tons of awesome stuff and we used to street race on Saturday nights in that area (illegal as hell and the law used to come down on us like a sack of bricks if we were caught).

A far cry from the strips that used to exist: Orange County International, Irwindale, Lions, Carlsbad, Riverside, Ontario, Ramona, San Fernando (often called the "Pond" and used as a location in many dragracing movies) and San Gabriel.

I was fortunate enough to be a spectator as a kid at some of these legendary tracks and later on, I had the good fortune to run at the ones that still existed. (L.A., OCIR, Carlsbad, etc.)

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Cool! About the only claim I have is that I can go to Thunder Valley on any given weekend and neat stuff. It would have been very interesting growing up in the area you grew up in. I'd have ended up in jail no doubt.

 

[ontos]

Yep Dave, California has gone the way of wall to wall housing, mega shopping centers and warehouses. I so remember the Riverside Raceway, we use to do High Speed Pursuit Training and defensive driving there, it was a blast. Now it is a shopping mall.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Here are a few more Creeper Trail shots for you Jan.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[javlin]

Some nice pics.I like pics of natural tree tunnels and pathways whether man made or nature.

 

[Wurger]