LOS ANGELES — Long before Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch notched their first NASCAR Cup Series victories at legendary Auto Club Speedway, Fontana was home to a quarter-mile strip that became a major stop for the National Hot Rod Association while also attracting on a nightly basis all manner of amateur racers.
Oh, and a monster.
Not a monster truck or an energy drink, but an alleged beast described by a local newspaper as "a horrible monster with a hairy body, long hands, and claws dripping with slime."
