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This cool Dean Moon shot shows Texan Lee Christian’s Oldsmobile powered Dragster out of Lubbock at the Chandler, Arizona strip in 1958 during a Drag News Invitational Meet. We have no speed or time for Lee.
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- Anderson, Bill (AND)
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