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I would also add: That one should always drink upstream from the herd! And quitters never win, and winners never quit.
Langhorne's turn 1 was called puke hollow before paving. In the 1950's Clarence Cagle the track superintendent at Indianapolis Speedway was given...
I would have loved to have seen him when he brought his 63 mystery 427 Impala to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2000 to show the brits how it...
Seeing the tires grooved for a dirt surface. Makes me wonder if this car might have competed at Beach Ridge Speedway in Maine, before it was paved.
I remember driving my mom's 62 Tempest wagon. Ralph Nader picked on the wrong car. IMO
Watch out for broken glass.
No longer a retro sign like that today, in North Bend, it's Neon!
I wonder if they had any problems balancing the LF tire?
Located in North Attleborough, Mass. Closed in 1979, It was located on US Rt. 1 the main North/South road in its day for the East coast. The...
Ironically the NWS is forecasting a hard freeze tonight in the Klamath Falls/Crater Lake areas above 2000' elevation!
Eastham, Mass ?
"Save at Spag's because you get no bags" was how I remember the jingle. You could buy anything there as long as you paid in $$$$$ like cash. Had...
Pavement preservation.
And car owner Bobby Judkins?
The best time for splitting wood is when the temperature is below freezing. I bought tree length wood, and also log length almost 40 years ago for...
Not one homeless person either.
There is one still going strong in Myrtle Point, Or.
Anybody out there with any photos, etc of when they flooded the track, and had boat races? Seekonk, Mass. was another track that had boat races.
Met my late wife there in 1969, the last year for the modifieds. Sold at auction in 1973.
Don McTavish, his stock car # was a J inside a circle. Go figure! Sadly he died racing at Daytona in the Permatex 300 in 1969.
You mention racing: How many people have said that to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one! If you want to pursue your...
I found that J.J. Best was more than willing to loan me money on a classic car last year. Their APR was over twice as high as my local credit...
Way back when I was a teenager, and knew it all. I had clutch problems on my 62 Valiant daily driver. Hard shifting, grinding going into gear,...
I remember first going to Epping in 1967. The following year the NED promoters ran the dragstrip at Norwood Arena. Sometime in the summer they...
Not a hater of the car at all. The rear seat folded down flat, and there was plenty of room for good times with my girlfriend out in the woods in...
A 56 chevy pickup. My father, and a brother of his were picking up rocks in a field that was reclaimed land, and I was told to pull up the truck a...
My mother had a 62 Tempest wagon in the mid 60's. Slant four engine and a rear transaxle. I believe that Pontiac used this "vehicle" as the...
Be careful what part of Arizona you live in. I remember the first weak end of March 2006. We got 36 inches of snow over the weekend in Payson....
In the town we live in there is an airpark, and I have seen more than a few homes with both hangars, and garages at a good price. Might be worth...
I'm just an old fart that grew up in a town with a 1/4 mile oval track, and then they added a dragstrip. I bought a 31 Ford Coupe to rebuild when...
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