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Let me ask this: I guess Atco is worth more as a scrapyard/auction (I'm confused as to which) than it is as a dragstrip? If it is, it must be a significant difference for the current owner, (whom I can only guess is a drag racing enthusiast) not to sell it as a dragstrip.
Atco's about 60 years old, I wouldn't want to be the guy who sold out. I guess Englishtown was worth a bunch more as whatever-it-was-sold-as, rather than a dragstrip. Enthusiast or not, that owner eliminated an iconic track. "Follow the money trail", I imagine. Shame. |
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Englishtown was not sold and is still owned by the same family. Some of the property was leased to park cars that are up for sale at one of the auto auction sites. Damaged cars from accidents, floods, fires I assume. They have a lot of value and paying storage fees on them would cost a great deal of money. I assume that leasing existing paved facilities saves a lot of money. Atco would be something along those same lines.....but I believe with an actual Auction building proposed. On the way to Atco I pass the Bordentown Auto Auction site.....A huge place where cars are auctioned. Those are all used cars not damaged. It's big business and millions of dollars changing hands. Drag racing is like an endangered species........If tracks keep disappearing we're extinct.....
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Northeast USA dragstrips have been suffering for years, If you do not have a owner with deep pockets to make it through the tough years of rainouts, and a passion for drag racing,it will not survive. I believe most years it is not a profitable business. Maple grove for sale, when COVID hit deal to keep it a racetrack fell through. And think how racers have changed, get your phone out, look at future weather radar and say, Looks like rain, I am not going. Show up in motorhome and buy no concessions at the track. Any dial-in racing is not fan friendly.
I have made it a point when I go to the track to buy something, Wife says I have too many T-Shirts now.. |
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It looks like while the track is closed, there hasn't been a decision to what will happen to the property. Maybe it will just lie(lay?) fallow, like 75-80 Dragway. I drove up to look at it recently and it's still sitting there, looking like it just needs a good cleanup to open again.
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