Word: depaolo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wanna Drag, Mister?" The pursuit has never ceased; the sport has never slowed. Engines swelled in size from one to two, to four, six, eight, even to twelve cylinders, and speeds soared. In 1924, California's Peter DePaolo "cracked a ton"-averaging 101.13 m.p.h. at the Indianapolis 500-and Europe's dark genius, Ettore Bugatti, explained why he equipped his fantastically quick and costly cars with fantastically worthless brakes: "Automobiles are meant to go, not to stop...
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