Was there a local dragstrip in your town?

[b-body-bob]

If there was, was there a "fill-in-the-blank" Shaker there?

Here it was the Guyandotte Shaker, also a mope. I was just a kid, so for all I know it was the same car. That one needs to have the axle relo finished, maybe they were trying to earn the money to do it at the race. [smilie=e:

 

[Dr.Jass]

Was there a local dragstrip in your town?

Uh, Wagner Drive? [smilie=e:

Oh, a [i]legal[/i] dragstrip? Not for well over 100 miles. [smilie=e:

 

[Not A Duster]

Our "local" strip was a 3 hour drive to get to.

 

[kamstra]

Our "local" strip was a 3 hour drive to get to.

Same here, nothing close.

 

[dodgedifferent2]

well legal no..

but Florence road [smilie=e:
15 km's of pure straightaway with no dips curves or hills [smilie=e:

 

[69superbee]

milan dragway!!!!! about 5 miles away i used to watch the nothern nationals every year. now it is an ihra track

my aunt lived about a half mile from there and i remember hearing the cars there every saturday and sunday.

detroit dragway !!! lotta great times there with my dad. it was about 25 miles from me i sure miss that place.

and we used to run on herr road and out on M-50 by the monroe county fair grounds. we had a bunch of quarter marked out here in monroe mi.


i still test and tune on hull rd. but it is not as smooth as it used to be.

 

[69x9x9]

until I moved here,1.5 years ago,Gainesville,Fla.,don't remember seeing that car.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Wagner Dr. is a cobbly old stretch of pavement near our airport. It runs aboot ¾-mile perfectly straight. It's heavily crowned, and one end is punctuated by a nasty right-hand 90° curve, the other stops at a "T" intersection, the other road of which is also heavily crowned and acts like a jump. If you blow through that intersection at speed, you have aboot a 6' drop (not counting the air you'll get from the crossroad) and one bounce before you hit the biggest damned oak tree you've ever seen.

Miss the tree and you're in Cowboy Lake.

I've been around here long enough that at least four people have died racing on that stretch during my time: two who were run over by a COPO '69 Camaro sYc 4-speed, and two in a car that bounced once and didn't miss the tree. They estimated that car was going around 100MPH when it left the ground at the T. You couldn't even tell what model it was without really getting close and looking--it just vaporized--but the tree's still OK.

 

[383man]

Cecil Dragway or Capital Raceway. Both about a 45 minute drive. I used to like racing on Sat nights at Capital years ago and now I go to Cecil more. Ron

 

[MyBigBlockDodge]

Thunder Valley Dragway! More good times there while growing up (heh, shutup) then I could count. Located at the corner of two graveled "mile" roads with crops on one side and a stream on the the other. Yup... we be runnin' what ya brung.


[smilie=a:

 

[mannye]

When I was a kid, the closest LEGAL drag strip was Englishtown. Of course, Francis Lewis Blvd. was much closer and had better racing...lol

And here in Miami, nothing for hours. Moroso is, like, in another land.

...and they complain about street racing...

 

[Anonymous]

Even though it's far from me, Raceway Park NJ [smilie=e: !


I think it's a 2 hour drive, but I was only there last July, so I don't remember it well.


I do remember a nice '72 Chally, a "sleeper" Buick Regal Turbo, and a sweet hot-rodded 'Cuda (maybe a 73?).

This littel Mazda popped a wheelie halfway down the dragstrip and hacked off its ass kit. It was kinda funny, sparks flying, a Mazda downed, and me and my friend (and his dad) sharing a laugh. I remember a bunch of Camaros, Mustangs, and a lot of beans 'n rice. But I still don't know why I saw a Ranger down there that warm Wednesday evening.




Nodda? [smilie=e:

 

[moparman21]

negatory,
but i am 4 hours from Bee Line so that counts for something [smilie=e: