Pomona PVTA drag racing

Pomona Drags sign at Pomona Raceway / driver NORM WEEKLY donning silver protective fire suit and mask, racing helmet while standing beside Frantic 4 AFD Top Fuel dragster, crew watching on / mechanic JIM FOX helping Norm Weekly into dragster / driver squeezed into Top Fuel front engine-mounted dragster at starting line, peeling out and drag racing, smoke filling screen / low angle sideview of Top Fuel dragster at starting position, drag racing, burning rubber / Frantic 4 AFD dragster at starting position, drag racing, spewing smoke / Pomona Drags sign / Pomona Drags PVTA logo sign / Pomona Valley Timing Association logo sign / Top Fuel dragster racing from starting position, rubber-streaked drag strip / 1940s model Willys hot rod roadster drag racing from starting position / Pomona Drags observation towers, crowd gathered outside / Frantic 4 dragster racing from starting line, burning rubber / Pomona Drags sign hanging from observation tower / driver, the Greek CHRIS KARAMESINES, wearing white Iskenderian poly dyne cams t-shirt, sporting thin mustache while getting ready for race; note the faded tattoo on his left forearm / Chris Karamesines placing protective face mask while squeezed into Chizler dragster (Donovan Engineering, Inglewood, California) / cars and pickup trucks pushing Chizler and Frantic 4 dragsters to starting line / white man standing on drag strip lane line, waving flag overhead (flag starter) / Chizler and Frantic 4 dragsters being pushed to starting line / man waving flag while standing on lane line, dragster in FG burning rubber, filling screen with smoke. Pomona PVTA drag racing on December 08, 1963 in Pomona, California (Footage by Getty Images)