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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Greg Fowler remembered drag racing his 1967 Chevelle Super Sport up and down West Virginia's roads.

In the '60s, drag racing on unpopulated rural roads was a normal activity for 20-somethings with fast cars.

One of their favorite spots to race was in Mason County, on a stretch of W.Va. 62 between Point Pleasant and Leon that the racers dubbed Wilson's Stretch -- so named for the family that owned a farm near the road.

Fowler and his friends discovered that the Wilsons would not call the police on the drag racing party as long as they steered clear of the farm.

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