Re: Jim Hale
That Little Rock strip was a quarter mile racetrack from the git-go; opened in 1960, I believe (could be wrong about that) but it was still a quarter-mile facility when I moved away in 1964. After that, I have no information.... I was in Des Moines.
Vance Hunt used to bring his fueler up from Dallas, frequently, with J.L. Payne at the wheel and make 180+mph runs... Eddie Hill ran there a lot, too... The shutdown surface was GRAVEL..... I'm not kidding.
Jimmy Camp and Tom Burris both lost their lives in cars (a B/SR and a B/A) that couldn't stop, and ran headlong into trees at the end of the strip.
Guess that's why the 1/8th mile thing came about.
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Bill
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