Hot Rods New Dirt Track Endeavor to Destroy Old Cars

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=2825367977778331
Looks like bad news for people needing parts cars. A guy from Iowa is hoping this catches on as a new, low dollar form of racing.

Gary

 

I fail to see an issue...

 

It looks to be a good thing ... old car hobby. Racing cars.

 

That looks a lot like the cars that were on the track when I was racing. Half the field was tri-five Chevys. I'd go do it again but at 67 years old it would take too long to recover after bouncing of the wall.

 

I searched youtube for American Iron Racing Series, there are videos from several years back...it's not a new thing....

 

I've been dropped on my tailbone too many times while racing. Most of my neck issues came from racing. The rest of me could handle it. But I manage to talk myself out of getting another car together.

 

There's the guys in Iowa, and there is an American Iron series in NASA that runs anything from 1960 on in a road course series, looks like mostly pony cars.

 

I don't why racing is viewed as destruction unless it's a demolition derby. Did I miss sumpin?

 

I don't really see an issue here. Most of these were likely former race cars anyway that were re-habbed and put back on the track. Looks like fun and a bit of nostalgia.

 

A fellow HAMBer and vintage circle track racer died about a year ago leaving a large collection or hot rods and restored race cars, a couple of cars that he raced and a number of old outdated modified ch***is sitting under piles of debris. What's a better fate for the old ch***is, to stay there rotting or to be used?

 

Need to water the track!

Dave

 

There are plenty of old race cars out where the tracks are, converted years ago.

 

I hate to tell you this but vintage oval track racing has been around for at least 35 years.

My club has been active for about ten!

Trust me we are not cutting up show quality cars! My cousin’s 60 T-bird was so bad it about broke in half loading it on the trailer when he bought it.

Now on a tube ch***is.

 

Much ado about nothing.

 

I see old dirt cars listed every once in a while on my local CL/Facebook marketplace and damn, sometimes I really want one.

There was a '32 Ford coupe that popped up a few times locally that gave me wood, flathead powered even with a stick shift!

 

...Be pretty cool to put some lights on there and make it street legal. Oh no, I see you're in Cali.

 

That's exactly what I would have done.

 

When I built the Studebaker I purchased three Studebaker Hawks for parts for the build. Sold two of the bodies but had one body left, no frame, a rusty hood and four roached fenders. Finally last October I was contacted by a man that was about four hours away in eastern Iowa, that weekend they showed up at 9 AM with a trailer and money, I was happy It was a father-son race team...about the first thing dad did was measure to insure the body would fit on their ch***is with 600 horsepower (they rebody annually). They were loaded and gone in less than an hour. Here are pictures before and after. This car was rough to start with and it may be the end of it's life but at least it's going out with a bang The after pictures were sent to me by the buyer.

 

Really like the T-Bird, and YES a tube frame is mandatory. A few Fords race in these events, but they seem to be mostly "the Chevy Derbys!" In '58-'59, San Jose, CA. streets were 'Chevy Heat'. LOL

 

The Antique cl*** in my club Mohawk Valley Vintage

Not me-

I will admit when you race hard some times things happen.

 

Interesting.......that video is at the Dubuque Iowa Speedway. We built cars to run there in the late 1960's to early 1970's. They were real......not yet vintage.......1957 Chevrolet and later a 1969 Camaro. Got them both at the salvage yard for very little money........it was fun while it lasted.

 

I'm afraid before long those hip young dudes might even be driving these old beaters on the street instead of restoring them to showroom condition and parking them in a garage. Can you imagine???

 

Dubuque Speedway runs these AIR series cars a few times a year, as do some other tracks in eastern Iowa and southern WI.

My son helps his neighbor that runs a car in the IMCA modified cl*** there, he is always telling me we should build a car for this AIR cl***. I keep telling him my racing days are over, and explain how much it would cost just to run the few weeks they run even close to us (being less then 90 miles away). Then we would have to build a car with nothing around here anymore, and then maintain it.

I keep telling him to keep helping his neighbor, its lots cheaper. The new season is about a month old and the boys have crashed the "new car" nearly every week. My son is welding for them, he is starting to learn how much work race cars are.

I've seen these boys run, it ain't the old days anymore, and they ain't dragging old cars out of the fields to race.

I'll watch them from the stands when our schedules match up.

 

Great fun.

 

I used to go to Ascot in Gardena when I was in LA. The Sunday night show was mainly stock cars run on the 1/4 mile oval. This was around 1984. I saw some very clean '62 Fords and a a lot of Chevies being raced. This was definitely a contact-sport cl***.

 

Looks like fun

I’d drive em

 

We are really living on the edge too most of the cars are drums, and often are faster then the cars running discs!

 

I would like to think most of the bodys are too far gone to be built otherwise. This is the kind if circle track racing i could go to watch.

 

You race them, you wreck them, That is a fact in all motor sports. Dead thread, Sorry. Race !

 

The guy that owns this one races it and it is the original car from back in the days.