San Antonio Raceway update - Page 2

James L Miller · 01-12-2015, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by treessavoy

This will be the second track to close in San Antonio since the '60's. Too bad!.

I wish they had built a drag strip in Austin when they built the new formula car track.

JimR

The dragstrips in Texas seem to be falling by the wayside. Crandall and Redline near Dallas, now SA is having problems. I don't see the F1 types even acknowledging drag racing, let alone build a track for it. There seems to be a lot of rumors on it's funding, so I don't see them spending any more money out there.

oldskool · 01-12-2015, 03:22 PM

Yeah, it's kinda sad that most of the tracks we use to run are long gone. We ran on 3 Texas tracks that are history--Hallsville, I-20 Raceway in Tyler, and Green Valley Race City. Beginning in the mid '70's, bracket racing kept most of the old tracks going for a few years.

The pic from Tyler shows why the tracks died. The stands are empty. The tracks got all their income from the racers. This can only work with a large car count. In '77 & '78 we went to the Div 4 bracket finals at Green Valley. There were probably at least 400 cars there. It took all day sitting in the staging lanes just to get 2 time trials.

The 1st GV pic shows the crosswalk and the 13 sec bracket Bird TJ(wife) drove. In the 2nd Bird pic it had an original 455 out of a 1970 GTO. It ran 12.40s with a stock 13" converter and 3.55 gears. Yeah, it wuz a low buck operation. But we won a lot of races and had a lot of fun !

There were a lot of big races at Green Valley. It lasted til 1986.

John Kelley · 01-12-2015, 09:23 PM

And Cherokee Raceway in Rusk......all gone

JimL · 01-13-2015, 08:07 PM

And Dallas International.

John Kelley · 01-13-2015, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JimL

And Dallas International.

If you going way back how about .....Top O' Texas in Pampa ??

01-12-2015, 03:22 PM	#12
oldskool VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: The Land of Bayous, Boudin & Crawfish Posts: 1,668 Likes: 223 Liked 747 Times in 362 Posts	Re: San Antonio Raceway update Yeah, it's kinda sad that most of the tracks we use to run are long gone. We ran on 3 Texas tracks that are history--Hallsville, I-20 Raceway in Tyler, and Green Valley Race City. Beginning in the mid '70's, bracket racing kept most of the old tracks going for a few years. The pic from Tyler shows why the tracks died. The stands are empty. The tracks got all their income from the racers. This can only work with a large car count. In '77 & '78 we went to the Div 4 bracket finals at Green Valley. There were probably at least 400 cars there. It took all day sitting in the staging lanes just to get 2 time trials. The 1st GV pic shows the crosswalk and the 13 sec bracket Bird TJ(wife) drove. In the 2nd Bird pic it had an original 455 out of a 1970 GTO. It ran 12.40s with a stock 13" converter and 3.55 gears. Yeah, it wuz a low buck operation. But we won a lot of races and had a lot of fun ! There were a lot of big races at Green Valley. It lasted til 1986. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by oldskool; 01-12-2015 at 03:47 PM.

01-12-2015, 09:23 PM	#13
John Kelley Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tightwad,TEXAS Posts: 911 Likes: 6 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: San Antonio Raceway update And Cherokee Raceway in Rusk......all gone

01-13-2015, 08:07 PM	#14
JimL Junior Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 70 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: San Antonio Raceway update And Dallas International.