Crossboss, thanks for your posting. Agreed that we didn't help ourselves any with the photo van choice.
I'd been street racing (nothing over $50...I wasn't big-time by any means...but $25-$50 was a lot to me back then) at Van Nuys since mid-70s. I knew the basic rules, most the hangouts, a few of the people, etc. (Although most of the people were referred-to more by their cars than their names. "The dude with the Orange LS6 Chevelle", etc.) Super Shops parking lot was our digs.
My pal Phil and I, and a few others from Culver City, would be there most every Wednesday and Saturday night. We would've liked to have been a few years older, in order to have been there in the true late-1960s heyday, but we still had fun. Cruising for chicks was about half of our motive, followed by checking out other fast cars for speed equipment, and actual racing.
With KMET and KLOS radio songs blasting out of just about every car around you, it made for good times.