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Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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Award Winner -- Malcolm Durham, for more than two decades a successful drag racing driver, has been named the first recipient of the annual Rajo Jack DeSoto Memorial Award for black American racers.The award, provided by STP Corporation, was made at the national convention of the Black American Racers Assn. in Atlanta, Georgia.

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At BARA’s 1976 convention BARA’s first president, Malcolm Durham, was honored for his historic accomplishments in drag racing. Durham won many times on the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) circuit and was well known on the associated match racing circuit with his "Strip Blazer" Pro Stock drag cars. He was the successful owner-operator of Supercar Engineering, a racing car shop in Hyattsville, Maryland, until his death in 2006

Chevrolet Vega Strip Blazer IX