GONE RACIN' SPECIAL BULLETIN: FUNERAL SERVICES FOR C.J. "PAPPY" HART

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This announcement came from the family of C.J. "Pappy" Hart.  C.J. Hart, track manager for many dragstrips throughout

Southern California, passed away on June 26, 2004.  He was 93, and was the founder of the Santa Ana Dragstrip, where

John Wayne Airport is now located, in Orange County, California.  Although Goleta was the first dragstrip of record, it was

C.J. Hart who created the very first professional dragstrip and charged admission.  Young people from all over the country

heard about this unique form of racing and came out to California to watch how the races were organized.  Within months

of the first dragraces at the old airbase, timing associations had sprung up all over the nation, and organized drag racing on

safe and sanctioned race courses had begun.  Be sure to come early, for the church has limited space.

Richard

 

Place: Waverley Church, 1702 Fairhaven Avenue, Santa Ana, CA  92705   714-633-1442
Funeral Service: Thursday, July 1, 2004, 11AM

Visitation Day: June 30, 2004, 4-8PM, same location as Service

Internment will be at Lawn J - Lot 546 - Space E

Please do not send flowers, but Pappy requested that if you would like to make a contribution, that he would be honored

if you remembered:  Drag Racing Association of Women (DRAW), 4 Hance Drive, Charleston, IL  61920

217-345-6537  www.drawonline.org

Thank you all again!  The Hart Family