Take a look at this find 60 & 70's
 

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Great site; brings back lots of memories, but I think it's more like '50s and '60s for the most part.

Verrrrry interesting!!!

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WOW! Thanks for the great photos!

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Well worth looking at thanks.
Running up to the tower to claim those little trophies sure felt fantastic. Different times same passion.

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Yep ! mine was a 5" one for 2nd place in class at Detroit dragway.
Still have it , took it to work & showed off what I had won.

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here's the picture, can you see the trophy on the front fender ?

May 1961 Detroit dragway

It was a 270 h.p. 283 with 3 on the tree.
Think it was c/s.....

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Tom,

What class was that; B/S, or C/S??? Just curious...

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Awesome pics. Reminds me of the old NHRA track on a abandoned air strip up in Orange, Mass. that I used to race at back in the 60's....Sanford, Maine... Charlestown, Rhode Island....Connecticut Dragway---old New England tracks that are long gone...This sport sure has changed. Thanks for bringing back some great memories...:D WJ

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wow, that was great.

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Did you notice all the smiles on all the racers faces. They all had a good time.

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Tom, my 1st racecar was a '57 Chev.dual-quad 270 horse 283 +.030 that we put a BW 4 sp, w/5.14's into. Car was a convertible (D or E/S)--heavy...but still went real good....Do you remember Atlas Bucron tires? They used to be pretty decent street/drag tires in their day-- before M&H super stocks came along....now I am showing some age, ha!:D

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Sure I ran Atles Bucron, think I left them on and drove all week on them .[1st drag radials]

I sold the 57 when I bought a 59 Pontiac that was winning races.
The guy who bought my 57 put a 4 speed in it and had to run d/g, as tech told him 57 chevys did come with 4 speeds, as I remember it


this is a picture from 1962 and the wins in '62
think it ran d/sa never ran NATIONALS, because of cam

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If I could jump as high as the starter I would still be playing basketball.

Thanks for the pictures.

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Larry,
Like this guy !
Took off inter-net
but that's the way they tryed to do it.........

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They will be flag starting stock, super stock, jr stockers, etc. this week-end at Beaver Springs, Pa. at the York Reunion.

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Can anybody ID the track where most of these shots were taken....with the uphill shut-off area? The layout reminds me of 75-80 in MD but the surrounding geography and what looks like the "Miss Roanoke" trophy queen makes me think VA of course. Could that be Culpepper,VA or a track that has closed? That shot of the chopped #29 B/C car reminds me of Suffolk.....Wow, I've got to get away from this computer.....

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Any older Roanoke,VA racers out there? A friend of mine researched that Allan Brown book about race tracks and said there was a 1/4 mile drag strip circa 1960 in or near Roanoke....No mention of years in operation or name.....anybody remember that place? So I guess that's the track in the photos....given the trophy queen that's there.......