In a slightly altered state

It’s still fun for Matsuda family forty years later

Words and photos by Jeff Burk
Main image courtesy George Matsuda

The late Steve Collison used to tell me, “Friction is where you find it.”  Well, as far as I’m concerned, that applies to drag racing too. While on the first real vacation the family has had in over 10 years (a week in the Hawaiian Islands), just like every vacation I’ve ever taken with my wife, somehow drag racing always creeps into the program. So it was this time where I found a dragstrip on the island of Kauai and the drag racing
Matsuda clan who have been
drag racing on the islands for
about 40 years.

“The key is to have fun and yet be able to afford it.”