The photographs are everywhere. Cars, drivers and race scenes cover the walls of Al ClarkB次元官网网址檚 modified house garage in Fairfield.

Born in England, Clark was raised in Victoria since the age of three, and started drag racing in 1962, his last year of high school.

The car was owned by the Quarter MilerB次元官网网址檚 Club of Victoria, though there was no drag strip in town. His first real race was on an airplane runway in Arlington, Wash., which the airport used to shut down every couple of weeks for racing.

B次元官网网址淚 did pretty good with that car, had some pretty successful days. We raced in Arlington for years.B次元官网网址�

Clark eventually bought the dragster from the Quarter MilerB次元官网网址檚 in 1966 and kept on winning races, rotating between Mill BayB次元官网网址檚 Van Isle Dragway (1967-72), Mission City and San Cobble, which was the private road used to haul limestone from a quarry near Bamberton.

B次元官网网址淚 kept improving it and it got faster and faster.B次元官网网址�

Throughout his 12-year racing career Clark raced in a few other dragsters, but his last race on the straightaways was in B次元官网网址�74, the same year he sold the car.

And so itB次元官网网址檚 as a drag racer that Clark goes into the Greater Victoria Auto Racing Hall of FameB次元官网网址檚 class of 2012. HeB次元官网网址檒l be inducted during Saturday nightB次元官网网址檚 (April 28) banquet at the Eagle Ridge Community Centre in Langford.

Clark is being inducted along with stock-car racers Tim Christy and Gordie Alberg, and pioneers Harold Corbett, Mark Meeres and Barbara Prettie.

B次元官网网址淵ou look back at the people who came from Victoria: Billy Foster, the first Canadian to race in Nascar, and Grant King, who built Indy cars in Indianapolis.

B次元官网网址淚t means a lot (to be in the hall with them) and all the great (circle-track) racers. And me being only the second drag racer inducted after Burt Sweeting (2011),B次元官网网址� Clark said.

Nowadays Clark is known for his work with 1932 Fords, reproducing them, repairing them, and organizing VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 popular Deuce Days event.

B次元官网网址淒euce Days draws far and wide. IB次元官网网址檝e got long-distance owners wanting to pre-register.B次元官网网址�

The seventh Deuce Days festival is set for July 2013, and will draw about 900 coupes and various classics to the Inner Harbour of Victoria. About 450 of those will be the classic B次元官网网址�32s, or deuces, that the festival is named after.