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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”
Sprint 6
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...
Cool! I saw Herb race that car many times at Lakeland Drag Strip in Memphis. Even before he took it out there I spied the car on a trailer at a...
Herb McCandless! Cool. Got any more shots of "Mr. 4-Speed"?
Thanks. Yep, I saw the horsepower wars among the manufacturers in Super Stock spawn Factory Experimental which spawned Funny Cars. The Kingfish...
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and went to races at Lakeland Dragway in Memphis, TN. Saw racers like Joe Lunati and Herb McCandless race there all...
This is all great stuff. I went to races in Memphis at the old Lakeland Dragway beginning in 1963. I saw lots of icons of the sport race there....
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