History What's your favorite old drag strip?

lee county speedway in keokuk, iowa
course its the only one i got to go to as a kid...and as most...its gone now!

 

BUnker Hill Dragway in Bunker Hill IN. Was originally a 1/4 mile in the 60's and there were times when a dragster would go off the end across the gravel road that crossed behind it.

The 40 Ford in the pic was Caddy powered and at one time hit the stand in the picture and knocked it down.



http://www.bunkerhillrace.com/

 

LIONS DRAG STRIP, i GREW UP HERE ON THE WEEKEND

 

Ryan...For Drags EAST Consider Rockingham Dragway, Rockingham.N.C.
contact Steve Earwood www.rockinghamdragway.com : track in 'Small town'..1/4 mile...history..opened as AHRA way back ...can handle national events... "middle" of north/south east coast....Local Tourism Commission(contact:Chamber of Commerce) looking for tourism events to make area 'destination'...could help ... near major interstates and Southern Pines (Golf mecca). Other possibilty: Piedmont Dragway near Greensboro (Opened in '57). Herb McCandless's Sons operate Still Funky old time look But 1/8th mile

 

Island Dragway Great Meadows N.J. since 1960

R.I.P. Ed K, Al Brown, Leaping Lasngua, Duke Snyder, Ralph Truppi....
and others....................

 

Neat picture of Colton in 1955.

 

Famoso.
Get's My Vote ever since Oswego closed
and I was forced to move to So Cal
Pomona is O.K. also
Love Burnin rubber and Nitro fumes

 

Having been only to Rockingham on the east coast I reckon its not a bad one...... in saying that I can only sight Famoso and Sears Point in the West coast, but Famoso is pretty cool and there is plenty to eat and places to stay in Bako and you might get Kiwi Konnection into it.

 

Beech Bend, Bowling Green, KY

 

New England Dragway ,Epping N.H.

 

The closing of sanford and the opining of epping had to be close. I only missed 4 years then. 61 thru 65.

 

KCIR! My dad started taking me there when I was 6 years old, in '68. I remember the 32 nitro Funny Car shows on a Wednesday night during the summer. The spectators could/can stand so close that its as good as being with the crew on the starting line.

 

Thompson Drag Raceway...Thompson Ohio

 

west salem,oh 'dragway 42'

 

Excellent! I was going to post this one.

Gotta watch out for the left lane dip. It's MURDER on a fast bike.

I've been going there for years!

Here's another 2:

Milan Dragway in Milan, MI

Quaker City in Salem, OH

Quaker is "interesting" with the uphill staging lane to the burnout box, but is a great track overall.

 

Definately Beech Bend. Of course I am biased because it is in my hometown but it is a cool old place with a nice vintage feel.

...bring it to Bowling Green where the beer flows like wine (or something like that anyway).

 

fremont , vacaville , lions , oroville ............... steve

 

Flemington (they called it Lion's ) and was there as a kid long after they had stopped racing.. and Englishtown

 

Beaver Springs dragway-Beaver Springs Pa.

1/4 mile,plenty of flat pit area,old style tower,good food
free camping overnight-nice little town 10-15 mins away
and Beaver Bob -the track owner-is really into it and
loves old skool stuff!

 

Another vote for Beech Bend, Bowling Green, KY. Has that vintage look , covered bleachers (close to track), Plenty of shade trees, I could go on & on. If you have never been to NHRR or Goodguys There it is a must attend.

 

Kil-Kare, east of Dayton, Ohio.

 

hobbs, new mexico, still there, wow seen the best, when i was a kid, dick herrall, all his great cars, gene snow, with his nice cars, joe smith with fenner tubbs mopars, don hardy, tommy mc neely in his hurbert platt built 65 afx falcon, jim butler with little butt kicking fords, pick panther corvette, anglias, willys, i was in drag racing heaven at 15 years old

 

Alton Dragstrip, Alton Illinois

 

A little off topic but still related. any one know what year Rockingham Drag Strip in NC opened?

 

Fremont when it was open

 

Atco, New Jersey. The only one I ever went to in highschool.That's where my 51 Chevy broke the 19 second barrier!

 

Back in the day Dragway 42 was a great place to see all the big fuel cars run. JC

 

how about capitol raceway in maryland. thats an old one with lots of history

 

In the east Beaver Springs would be your best bet. Beaver Bob is into this kind of stuff. They host the Jalopy Showdown Drags in October and a big Nostalgia weekend in July. It in my opinion has the best old time feel out of all the tracks in the North East I've ever been too. Maybe a late spring/early summer date would work there. Island Dragway has good possibilities too.

 

I vote for Fomosa. Last time I was there, I was standing in line with Ed Iskenderian.