Famous Texas Tracks, Cars, Stories and SpeedShops

The ones you see of road racers are when Green Valley was used as a Road track for SCCA.

 

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Sorry for any reposts guys, its hard to keep up with whats been posted.

 

This is the last for tonight at least, will post more either tomorrow or Sunday. Id really appreciate it if you guys would take the time to bump this thread and contribute anything you can, every story is apart of the history of these tracks and when theyre gone this is all we have left, might as well share it with someone.

 

Here's some pic's of cars that I ran at Green Valley,Caddo Mills, Cedar Hill
and Circle Drag Strip in the early to mid 60's.
I never ran at Yellow Belly. It was an outlaw dangerous racing place.
You needed a gun in your pocket over there even back in the day!
In the early 60's there were only two speed shops in Dallas.
Custom Automotive on Pearl St. in downtown Dallas, and AEECO,
(Automotive Engineering and Equipment Company) on Irving Blvd.
There was also Calvert Automotive in Denton who did balancing and
racing engine work. Wayne Calvert is still in business there.
Ed Mabry had a machine shop in west Dallas and did race car stuff.
Ed made me a heavy steel billet flywheel for my C/A.
The Vietnam conflict put an end to my racing but maybe saved my life.
I was building a tailpipe tubing sbc C/F dragster when I got drafted.
Mickey Davison

 

Back to the top!

 

I lost my place guys so really sorry about any reposts.

 

Will upload more tomorrow most likely.

 

69Chevelle..the two photos in the lower right corner on post 93 ,,"Red Hoss" was owned by Bob Taylor and is the old number 1 Scorpion.

 

Yup. its one of my all time favorite dragsters.

 

Here we go for today.

 

These were taken in 1966 at the AHRA Nationals in Green Valley. I had a note the "Old Smokie" was by the Anderson Bros. & Simpson. The one pix shows the scene from the covered grandstand--VERY neat for the Texas sun. The Harrel pix was taken at the Holiday Inn in Hurst, Tx. I have a set/booklet of the drag racing rules for 1966 w/ some very cool pix. Will post some later.
cooger

 

Thanks man, cant wait to see the other stuff you have.

 

bump for those who havent seen it. Enjoy it and please comment and contribute!

 

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I love all these pics chevelle454, great thread,
californians love drag racing too,,
check this out http://eaglefielddrags.com/
coming up in May ......

 

Mitchell Anderson and Watus Simpson both attended the geezer reunion last month in Dallas....Anderson Bros
(Mitch and Donald) also gave Kenny Bernstein his first dragster drive...back in those early days

 

Here you are for today.

 

Great history, thanks for sharing with us !

 

Any time, glad people are still interested in our local racing culture.

 

Please guys help me keep this thread alive, I cant do it myself.

 

Here ya go for today

 

Anybody know where to find Forrest Bond? He must have a zillion photos & stories
from Green Valley & around Texas.

 

Nope, but if anyone gets a hold of him tell him to please share.

 

There is so much that flows through the HAMB and posts like this get missed. To those who posted all the photos, thanks, these are great.

 

Glad you like them lowcab!

 

Guys keep bumping this so people like Lowcab get a chance to see it.

 

Green Valley Raceway 1969, which lies under a subdivision about a mile from here. Up until about about 2005 the cross-track bridge and some of the original asphalt was still there

 

I live a block away from it, have most of my life. The burnout box and starting line are actually still there, you can see it from the road.

 

I ran a c/sports formula 4 corvette ther in the 60 s. It cost $5 to enter but if you won your class you could take the trophy or get your $5 back. I was there one Sunday , and they were having a top fuel coupe promotion happening. Top 16 racing for $5000.00. There were only 15 cars there.I entered the deal with my little oorvette. It paid $200.00 to qualify, I qualified 13th , 3 had blown up! Of course it looked stupid , but the crowd loved it. I went up for irst round hoping the other guy would blow up. ( this was in the 60s) he didn't ,but I got my $200.00 . Back in the pits I took off my slicks put on my street tires loaded up my wife and kid and went back home to Arlington in our 63 corvette coupe.