Now, the very last public drag strip in Southern California has closed.

The quarter-mile dragstrip is located on the grounds of the NASCAR-owned Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, about an hour east of Los Angeles. The dragstrip opened in its current location in 2007 but soon ran into noise issues with local residents, leading to a court-ordered shutdown in 2012. To resume racing at the track, it took a commitment of $2 million - funded, in part, by the NHRA, SEMA, Lucas Oil, K&N, and the Auto Club - half of which went to building a 25-foot-high, 1,800-foot-long noise abatement wall that features the aforementioned slogan. (Source: Hemmings.com)

"After careful consideration on the best direction forward for Auto Club Speedway, the difficult decision has been made to permanently close Auto Club Dragway," officials at the dragstrip announced in a Facebook post on Friday. The announcement also appears on the dragstrip's website.

So-Cal racers still have an eighth-mile dragstrip in the area, east of Los Angeles in Irwindale.