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Photograph caption date stamped January 22, 1965 reads, "Burbank's Tommy Ivo is shown in his 200 m.p.h. dragster. Ivo returns to local drag racing Sunday at the Fontana Dragway, using a parachute to slow down his car after the initial run."
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