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    Thunder IN THE VALLEY

    Mar 25, 2020 4 minutes
    STORY & PHOTOS ASHLEIGH WILSON

    A SINGLE ’57 Chev is enough to turn heads on the street, so imagine the neck-snapping going on at the Carralbyn Eighth-Mile Drag Racing Display, where punters thrilled to the sight of 100 pre-1968 hot rods, rat rods, gassers and dragsters racing on an airstrip.

    Held over the last weekend of February, the second annual Carralbyn drags saw gearheads from all corners of the country converge in the Kooralbyn Valley, about 100 kays south of Brisbane, for a nostalgic three-day race-fest.

    Shenanigans began on Friday for drag entrants, with a friendly game of golf at the Ramada Resort, while Saturday featured a cruise through the streets of nearby Beaudesert, along

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