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ss wannabee 10-30-2012 09:55 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn Hayes (Post 353843)
I found through searching that Green Pine Dragway sits on the side of the mountain South of Williamsport, PA. - up in the woods, in the Allenwood area. A 'short' Circle Track was at the end of Reach Road, and it sounds like the drag strip was near it. They claim that the 1/8 track is still there.
Found some photos of that track on the HAMB site...from the guy restoring the
'55 Chevy gasser called the "Bad Banana"....think he had some Altoona photos
too....

Still can't get the photos Steve1118 put here of Altoona...anybody see them?

ss wannabee 10-30-2012 11:25 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ss wannabee (Post 353817)
Steve1118...not sure how to get to your pictures. Have you seen the 2 home movies
on YouTube of Peterson? Not very good quality...but the PA2 version...which has the
Jungle Jim Nova and Schartman FC's...that movie looks an awful lot like PID.

Maybe you could take a peek? I never had the chance to go to Altoona or PID back
in the day...but stopped by once at PID after it closed...
Guess that's the place...found a guy on another site that was there for THAT match
race at Peterson....probably 1969?

Steve1118 10-31-2012 01:32 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
I took a lot of the home movies, Tom Taylor took the others. None of them are posted on youtube.

The first Home Movies of Peterson I took were at a Tom Reese vs Tom Raley T/F match race sometime in 1966. Bob Kaiser, the future world champ, was there with a wedge 63 Plymouth sponsored by Williamsport Auto Sales.

I'll try to reload the pics.

James L Miller 10-31-2012 03:52 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
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A friend sent me some photos at Dallas International that his dad and a partner ran their Fairlane back in the early 1970s.

Robert Swartz 10-31-2012 07:11 PM
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Pit Pass from Tri-City. Did the Div 3 points meet in the mid 70's. If I remember right, wasn't that place located next to an Airport? I recall some drag strip in Michigan, we got woke up by a jet preparing to take off at about 5 in the morning! Probably didn't help that we sat up till about 1 or 2 in the morning drinking and bs'ing with some other guys in line. One thing I do recall, it was a long drive up AND back from central Indiana.

Mack Reeves 10-31-2012 09:04 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by chris3racing (Post 301369)
No North Carolina tracks posted? I believe, and stand to be corrected by Mr. Bret Kepner, North Carolina has had more drag strips than any other state. Remember:
Sanford, Easy Street, Broadslab, Concord, Red Springs, Holly Ridge, Shuffletown, Union County, Fayetteville Airstrip, "original" Piedmont and lots more. I remember other tracks that we raced on, I'm just too old to remember the names.

Right now there are still over a dozen tracks operating on a week-end in North Carolilna

Adding to your NC list are East Bend and are they still running at Wilkesboro????

Charlie A 10-31-2012 09:23 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by James L Miller (Post 354406)
A friend sent me some photos at Dallas International that his dad and a partner ran their Fairlane back in the early 1970s.
http://classracer.com/classforum/att...1&d=1351713099

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...2&d=1351713099

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...3&d=1351713099

Charlie A 10-31-2012 09:28 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Swartz (Post 354436)
Pit Pass from Tri-City. Did the Div 3 points meet in the mid 70's. If I remember right, wasn't that place located next to an Airport? I recall some drag strip in Michigan, we got woke up by a jet preparing to take off at about 5 in the morning! Probably didn't help that we sat up till about 1 or 2 in the morning drinking and bs'ing with some other guys in line. One thing I do recall, it was a long drive up AND back from central Indiana.
http://classracer.com/classforum/att...4&d=1351724561

Steve1118 11-02-2012 01:29 PM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
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Here's a shot from the long closed Pittsburgh International Dragway.

rawhide 11-03-2012 10:10 AM
Re: Lost Drag Strips
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by James L Miller (Post 354406)
A friend sent me some photos at Dallas International that his dad and a partner ran their Fairlane back in the early 1970s.
James,
Do you know what color the Fairlane was?
thanks, Roland


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