Lost Drag Strips

Steve1118 · 10-26-2012, 01:32 PM

Herb was from Altoona. I know he won the Summernationals at Englishtown...I can't recall the year, and then went to work for Comp Cams. Haven't heard from him in years.

I have a lot of pics at home, on my home computer. I will post them over the weekend.

A lot of reasons it closed...Petersen, the older gent that owned it, was getting in poor health, and the kids didn't want to mess with it. It was leased by John Dively in 77 & 78, then he quit, too. I'm pretty sure it's the same John Dively who owns Econo-trailer in Claysburg.

A few years back, a couple of the original racers and myself got with Jim Amos from Bee On Video (www.beeonvideo.com), who makes a lot of the old nostalgia races and films. Jim took tons of video of it is now, and we provided him with a lot of old 8mm films. He is putting together a production as we speak.

bigsixman · 10-26-2012, 02:05 PM

Does anyone have pictures or history on Seminole Dragstrip west of Tallahassee, FL on SR20? My parents live in Panama City, FL and I remember driving by this old closed track about 10 years ago. It is basically all there including the old tower. I never hear of any old stories regarding this track and I know that there has to be someone out there that can share some info on this track.

Steve1118 · 10-26-2012, 08:50 PM

Pics from Altoona late sixties......

ss wannabee · 10-27-2012, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve1118

Pics from Altoona late sixties......

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...

ss wannabee · 10-27-2012, 08:23 PM

Anyone remember Green Pine?, a small 1/8th mile track somewhere in central or
western PA?

Mike Carr · 10-27-2012, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ss wannabee

Anyone remember Green Pine?, a small 1/8th mile track somewhere in central or
western PA?

Any better idea where it might have been? I live near New Castle PA, just on the Ohio line, roughly halfway between Erie and the WV line. Never heard of a Green Pine (but, then again, I'm only 32). I remember, hearing of, at least, Skyline (New Castle), Sunset (Mercer) in far west PA, plus PID, Keystone (now Pittsburgh Raceway Park) and New Bethlahem and Peterson Memorial.

Glenn Hayes · 10-27-2012, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ss wannabee

Anyone remember Green Pine?, a small 1/8th mile track somewhere in central or
western PA?

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.

Z28#107 · 10-27-2012, 11:52 PM

putting these coordinates into google-maps

41.169792 -76.983635

http://http://yankeeracer.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Tracks_by_State

ss wannabee · 10-30-2012, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenn Hayes

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

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Originally Posted by ss wannabee

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?

10-26-2012, 02:05 PM	#2
bigsixman Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Crookston, MN Posts: 157 Likes: 8 Liked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Lost Drag Strips Does anyone have pictures or history on Seminole Dragstrip west of Tallahassee, FL on SR20? My parents live in Panama City, FL and I remember driving by this old closed track about 10 years ago. It is basically all there including the old tower. I never hear of any old stories regarding this track and I know that there has to be someone out there that can share some info on this track. __________________ 1969 camaro, pump gas 540"bbc, jerico 1967 camaro, pump gas efi 620", coan t-400

10-26-2012, 08:50 PM	#3
Steve1118 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Walton's Mountain Posts: 116 Likes: 2 Liked 13 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Lost Drag Strips Pics from Altoona late sixties...... Last edited by Steve1118; 10-27-2012 at 10:36 AM.

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ss wannabee Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 663 Likes: 0 Liked 7 Times in 7 Posts	Re: Lost Drag Strips Anyone remember Green Pine?, a small 1/8th mile track somewhere in central or western PA?

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Z28#107 Junior Member Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 2 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Lost Drag Strips putting these coordinates into google-maps 41.169792 -76.983635 http://http://yankeeracer.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Tracks_by_State Last edited by Z28#107; 10-28-2012 at 12:18 AM.

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10-26-2012, 01:32 PM	#1
Steve1118 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Walton's Mountain Posts: 116 Likes: 2 Liked 13 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Lost Drag Strips Herb was from Altoona. I know he won the Summernationals at Englishtown...I can't recall the year, and then went to work for Comp Cams. Haven't heard from him in years. I have a lot of pics at home, on my home computer. I will post them over the weekend. A lot of reasons it closed...Petersen, the older gent that owned it, was getting in poor health, and the kids didn't want to mess with it. It was leased by John Dively in 77 & 78, then he quit, too. I'm pretty sure it's the same John Dively who owns Econo-trailer in Claysburg. A few years back, a couple of the original racers and myself got with Jim Amos from Bee On Video (www.beeonvideo.com), who makes a lot of the old nostalgia races and films. Jim took tons of video of it is now, and we provided him with a lot of old 8mm films. He is putting together a production as we speak.