October 16, 1971, was a chilly day in Lewisville, Texas. It rained that morning at Dallas International Motor Speedway, but the pavement had dried enough to make what was expected to be a historic run at the state-of-the-art quarter-mile dragstrip. And it was historic. For all the wrong reasons. Television newsman Gene Thomas—real name Eugene...
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