Vintage Dirt Track Cars Photo Thread

Mostly pics from family photo albums....share some of yours

 

shamelessly link-jacked, but its a great picture

 

downtown Atlanta-closed 1970

 

have many more to post later...

 

thanks looks good. For what its worth I can fill in who some are. I hope I dont get it to out of line but here goes. !st photo Harold fryer nashville fairgrounds bach straight. no74 HF montg speedway. 3 photo second turn montgomery speedway. the last photo no 2 body my yard..................................................... the next set pond car montg alabama. the 36 my yard. the last is the fairgrounds birmingham while still dirt f97 is Red Farmer....................................... the 4th set 3 and 2d my yard, 28 bell bros auto parts huntsville alabama bill porter driver. the no 8 is a figure 8 car montg al. no 34 steve gober the 312 bobby allison. the 14 is lakewood ga.................... the 397 hitting the wall at nashville is owned by steve gober this car has been restored. on a side note steve is n0w 84 and still sets up cars. his imca type open wheel won a race several weeks ago at birm int race way. the new type ow has won over 100 races.................................................next the #6 I think Grason Rose driver at the Iron Bowl out side Bham al. the color photo of # 69 is the william penn wrenched car driven by bill latham... ......................cherokee garage now restored built by billy hester driven by gober solsby.............. the 99 gmc powered thomas bros car. The chevy 14 is Padelfoot Wells many time winner all over the south. He was the man who took care of neal Bonnetts personal cars and boats a**** other things. The Ford is Red Farmer in front of long time sponsor Long Lewis Fords.. Cheif Mech Is Bill Hammer. .................................................The fire is at Dixie speedway Midfield alabama. Bobby Allison car. After the fire was put out BA went to host TC Hunt won the race as a relief for BA. IF you still foloww me ...............The no 1 is Bob Burcham The last is Sonny Blacks last race car the day they started on it. This car is still around and in the collection of Race Cars of yesterday in Tampa Fla.. Sorry for being so long.. Bobby..

 

This ones in my garage. Picked it up last summer, should be slinging dirt again this summer.

 

Heres a couple from the sportsmans cl*** in Clearfield Pa. in 1980

 

Couple of my dads pics... Shady Bowl

 

A couple of my Dad (Bobby Adams, Anniston AL) and one that I'm going to pick up tomorrow and start rebuilding.

 

There are already three seperate threads on this board that all of these pics should be added to, they are all approaching or over 100 pages each. Search a little and you will find that this is well on its way already. You will find a ton of pics you will like under vintage sprint car, historic stock car, and vintage modified threads.


Bob

 

I think Bobby Allison is lurking. I told him about his photos on here.

 

I never was as ballsy. Kevin had the "Big Right Foot" He had RG Nethery for his help.

 

Lakewood Speedway was one of the most famous dirt tracks in the southeast. It was a mile oval with a lake in the infield.

The famous 1st turn @ Atlanta's legendary Lakewood Speedway .......




The first turn today .....





The front stretch at Lakewood, ca. early 1950s ....




Almost the same view today .....




The grandstands during the waning years at Lakewood ....




Today ......

 

what a shame. Good comparison

 

Here's a car that belonded to one of the early, early legends of NASCAR, Gober Sosebee (First name pronounced GO-ber). Born in Dawsonville, Georgia, Sosebee won Daytona in 1949, 1950, and 1951.




Here's Gober in action at Daytona when the race was run on the beach.








The Cherokee Garage ....

 

Oh yeah, here's one of Gober f*ckin' up.

 

Here's a cool aerial photo of the Daytona race course before the current facility was built.



Man, those were the days .....

By the way, this is part of the same stretch where LSR runs were being made long before Bonneville. This is the place where, in 1905, Arthur McDonald broke Henry Ford's land speed record. Later on, Sir Malcolm Campbell achieved the record there in 1928 with a speed of 206.95 mpg.

 

We picked this up for our dad. Its a 37 plymouth. Perty damn cool car.

 

What do you plan for power? What was in it?