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Drag Race
"Drag" is a late 18th century term for a wagon or buggy, because the horse would "drag" the wagon. By the mid 1800's streets were the wagons went were called the "main drag". In the 1950's hot rodders started using the term for racing cars on city streets.


 


 

 

 




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