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I hope someone local to Memphis buys it. Like Mark Pickens, the owner of Clay Millican's top fuel team. There's a whole bunch of folks who race...
According to this story the NHRA has pulled out also....
About 23 years. I sure hope someone steps up and buys it. It's a great track. :(
Cool! I seem to remember the A990 '65 Plymouth winding up in A/FX eventually. I'm thinking it had Hillborn injectors and altered wheelbase. I'd...
I did run across an old video on youtube. Double H Drag Strip, Blue Ridge, GA, May 9, 1965. There's some shots of Herb in the A990 65 Plymouth....
I well remember seeing Herb drive his '65 A990 car at Lakeland Drag Strip near Memphis, TN. He was one heck of a driver and shifter! I never saw...
Joe Lunati’s Devin-bodied “Trouble Maker”
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The drag racing scenes were filmed at Shelby County International Raceway (old name was Lakeland Drag Strip) outside of Memphis, TN. I was there...
I couldn't find any other info on the A/A. I thought at first it could be one of the Robilio cars. Then again maybe it's the Nolan & Wilbanks A/A....
Yessir, the racing footage in the movie "Two Lane Blacktop" was filmed at Lakeland Drag Strip. I was out there the day of the filming. When it was...
I saw Bill Taylor's Kingfish race at Lakeland Drag Strip in Memphis from 1965 to 1968. Started out with a short wheelbase in the first year. Larry...
More Herb McCandless. Herb always got plenty of air. :D [IMG] [IMG]
By the way, that 65 Plymouth Herb ran wound up with Hilborn injectors and I think a slightly altered wheelbase and ran in A/FX. But he still...
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