When I was a kid living in McLean, VA, we had two favorite local spots to drag race. Closest was the stretch of Rt 123 (?) right out in front of the CIA headquarters in Langley. The other was on the Dulles Airport access road right where it joined the Beltway. There was no traffic early in the evening back then. The place outside the CIA had a traffic light - how convenient.
Geez, I lived in McLean back in ‘59. Yikes. Now I’m really dating myself. Just as an aside, we did a field trip to Lake Cacapon (sp) in the back of flat bed semis with side rails and hay bails. Think that could ever happen today? LOL! No problems except for the M-80’s in the lake. :>)
Lots of the late night street racers used 295 between Anacostia and the Beltway or Indian Head Hwy. until the Md. State Police shut it down because of too many wrecks and the occasional D.O.A.
Wasn’t that 29/211 out there? There was a drive in theater out that way. I lost a trooper out there one night in my camaro, got off in Manasses and promptly had a local adhere to my bumper for the longest 7 or 8 miles of my life...