Drag Times 1958 Rare Sample Issue & Vol.1 No.1

Description

By the late ’50s, drag racing was moving from club runways to organized strips with clocks, insurance, and sanctioning—amateurs and pros alike chasing ETs every weekend. Local speed shops, safety clinics, and club bulletins knit the scene together, while photos, timing charts, and technical cutaways turned hot-rod lore into recordable history.

Offered here is a very scarce, two-issue lot from the birth of Drag Times: the “Sample Issue” (promotional pre-release) together with the Inaugural issue, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 25, 1958)—both branded “The Most Complete Midwest Drag Racing Coverage.” Content includes action photos, ET/mph results, club and strip news (Great Lakes, U.S. 30, Oswego, more), Norm Kopetsch technical drawings, classifieds, and period ads (drag-strip insurance, speed shops). Early Drag Times issues are documented but scarce; the Vol. 1, No. 1 is specifically cited in regional drag-strip histories and collector notes, with few appearances on the secondary market.

A true starter-set for Midwest 1320 history—the pre-release + first official issue together! Essential for hot-rod ephemera collectors and historians of the NHRA era.