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300 Foot Drag Strip!

67Satty

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I saw something about this on Yellow Bullet. I have a soft spot in my heart for offbeat, backwoods-style drag racing. This one is in West Virginia. I think grass-roots stuff like this cool. We need more of it.

http://www.tririverdragway.com/index.htm
 
that's different for sure, looks like fun... you really need a car that works really well & launches really good, to win a short race like that, no room for any mistakes or big wheelies... Dang they have better pay-outs than allot of the old 1/8th & 1/4 mile, tracks I use to race at... Makes me think of when I lived in the Concord Ca. area, in the 60's-70's & even into the late 80's, we had a place in eastern part of Pittsburg Ca., usually not a nice place to be, called the "N---r Nationals" or Camp Davidson ?? {I think anyway, my memory isn't what it use to be}, as it was known to be called by everyone {meeps knows what/where I'm referring to}, right next to Hwy 4, that was a maybe 330ft of short track area, mainly an abandoned part of a road, well not really a real track, just a place a bunch of people went to beat on their cars & drag race/street race, every weekend for years, it was like 660ft to 700ft maybe total, to do, your burn-out, race, 1st then second gears 3-5 second all-out blast & then slam on the binders or at-least try to stop before going into a field, then turn around... a chain link fence on one side & the other side lined with all type of cars & people of all races & nationalities, everyone having fun, betting or racing &/or parked ready waiting, to run their POS's too... the local cops allowed it for years too...
 
300', that's a one two shift. That would be some different racing.
 
300', that's a one two shift. That would be some different racing.

If you can get out of first.When I was a teen a lot of guys had built 4x4s. They would lock em in low and race telephone pole to telephone pole.Was fun to watch.
 
When my brother went to Marshall we would go over to tri river and watch races. A different place, but definintely cool. Had an old coal mine catwalk up behind the starting line.
 
That would be a little tricky for me with this car. Mine would wheelie 1/2 of that.
 
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