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PROJECT 1320 produced by Quarter Mile Entertainment
is an episodic documentary which will capture the history of
drag racing - from the post World War II period to the end of
the 1980s.
PROJECT 1320 will feature interviews of the surviving
pioneers as they tell the story from their unique, personal point
of view. Some of today's heroes will be featured, but it will
focus on yesterday's legends as they tell of their experiences
and explain the Who, What, Why, When, Where and How of
the sport's early days and how it grew. You will also see how
a multi-billion dollar industry - the performance automotive
aftermarket - grew with the sport as ingenious racers built new
parts to make their race cars go faster, and then sold them to
their fellow competitors.
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED!? -- Join
"FRIENDS OF PROJECT 1320"!
Drag racing fans can get directly
involved with the PROJECT 1320 effort by becoming a member of
"FRIENDS
OF PROJECT 1320".
You get:
-- A PROJECT 1320 T-shirt, Cap and Hat Pin.
-- PROJECT 1320 Boxed DVD sets at discounted pricing.
-- The PROJECT 1320 website (www.Project1320.com) "Members Only"
section.
-- Photos and movies from fans and old racers which will rekindle
many memories.
-- As a special addition, you will also see actual interview
pieces of each interviewee before the documentary is even released.
-- Join with a community of fans in the website's social network
area sharing your personal recollections and thoughts with
others around the world.
PROJECT 1320 will feature the important developments
of each decade, how the pro classes came to be, the innovations
in performance parts, the changes in safety and how drag races
were conducted. You'll learn about how the automakers and Fortune
500 companies used the sport to market their products. Plus many
more areas as PROJECT 1320 unfolds!
Join online now at Project 1320
Project 1320 Mail in Membership Form
Project 1320 to chronicle
drag racing's pioneers Documentaries
to provide an oral history of the sport
Contact: Traci Hrudka
Quarter Mile Entertainment, LLC
Phone: 440.888.0088
Hrudka@sbcglobal.net
(OR)
Steve Cole - 330.725.5462
scole@4writewords.com
Parma Heights, Ohio -Racing fans
and automotive enthusiasts have long had a desire to learn about
the birth of the sport from the legends and heroes of the formative
years.
To this point, there has been a patchwork of efforts but without
an integrated approach to tell the story of how men and women
with mechanical talent, fearless determination and skill built
the cars and events to capture the glory of being the quickest
and the fastest down 1320 feet of asphalt.
The focus of Quarter Mile Entertainment
LLC (QME) and its Project 1320 is to capture first person narratives
about the life and times of these early heroes
from the
period immediately after World War II through to the beginning
of the "modern era". The narratives of the sport's
pioneers will be supported with still images and home movies
of the period to deliver the "Who, What, When, Where, Why"
of the times.
At the heart of the project is
the goal to produce a high quality documentary film centering
on the individuals, manufacturers, sanctioning bodies and the
behind the scenes people
what it took to bring this great
sport to its current level that can be divided into segments
suitable for multi-part TV series use. The individuals and manufacturers
who will be a part of this series will include many household
names but will also include many of the "lesser-knowns"
whose contributions have faded in our minds, but who helped launch
the sport, nurtured it through its early growth and finally saw
it become a major motorsport. The goal is to place the series
on a cable network to expose the greatest number of viewers to
why and how this sport has grown in popularity.
"Our greatest concern is
to capture the stories and personal perspectives of the legends
of the sport that are still living," says Traci Hrudka,
chairman of Quarter Mile Entertainment. "We have lost a
tremendous number of these people over the years, and time is
running out to capture those oral histories in a digital format.
If we ever want to do this, now is the time!"
The initial effort will be to
provide an overview of the historical perspective of the sport
- the key people and moments
the passion and the blood,
sweat and tears it took to evolve the sport from a grassroots,
never quit, "run whatcha brung" level to the point
where corporate America and thousands of racers are involved
on a weekly basis. It will also touch on how successful racers
became successful business owners, supporting the racers with
the products needed to get the finish line quicker and faster.
The blueprint for Project 1320
calls for a breaking down of the sport's dramatic growth
by
decades, the evolution of today's major classes of competition,
plus a look at the growth of the racing parts aftermarket, the
influence of automaker participation and the support of corporate
America, the historic race tracks and their owners and how the
ideas of a small handful of men and women created the sanctioning
bodies that have guided the sport.
The early grassroots support
of Project 1320 has been amazing, fed by a word of mouth, internet-based
network of old racers. A significant number of fans and racers
have volunteered their home movies and pictures to this project.
These images and movies will be digitized and archived for future
use, as well as the first person interviews. The archives will
provide much of the resource material for the subsequent project
episodes.
Project 1320 will be seeking
both corporate and grassroots support to document drag racing's
historic moments and personalities. The "Friends of Project
1320" program will soon be launched to allow individuals
to help produce this undertaking, and to build additional support.
The Board of Directors of QME hope the project will generate
even more support by fans and racers who uncover their personal
archives of yesterday and share it with future generations of
fans and racers.
The Board of Directors of Quarter
Mile Entertainment LLC consists of: Traci Hrudka (Chairman),
Harry Hibler, Don Garlits, Steve Cole and Wayne Wolfe. The Board
of Directors is assisted by an Advisory Board of Wally Booth,
Darwin Doll, Don Ewald, Carl Olson, Stephen Krystek and Bill
Pratt.
NOTE: The Project 1320 website
at www.project1320.com is currently under construction. The target
launch date will be the first week of June, 2009. The present
unofficial home of the project is www.project1320.ning.com.
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