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Abandoned Drag Strip

thanks ,Bud and I had a thread going a while back with photos and videos of old abandoned drags strips :thankyou::thumbsup:
 
here's a couple



Fremont Ca.
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Fremont dragstip now Pacific Common shopping center.jpg

Riverside Ca.
Riverside Dragstrip.jpg

Oro Dam Oreville Ca.
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Oro dam looks good to go! Damn!

Yeah I'd love to buy that place & reopen it, BUT;
from what I understand the insurance/costs is out of this world &
needs a bunch of updating, just to get any insurance...
Guard-rails, other fencing safety issues & restrooms etc.,
not to speak of the pits & timing stuff...

I'd do some good marketing & get it back to being a racetrack again

so sad, I really miss Fremont, but that's been over 20+ years now

I tried to find old stuff about ol' Vacaville 1/8th mile too, no luck
it shut down before 1970 IIRC
 
Green Pine ?
not me


I use to race at a bunch of little tracks all over,
match racing stuff, travel money to fund my racing trips...
Door-slammer, Outlaw Pro-Stock, Top Sportsman/Pro-Gas & Altered stuff

I loved the little tracks they treated you like a king,
even being a nobody if you had a relatively fast car
unlike the big NHRA tracks, I was a nobody...LOL
 
Green Pine ?
not me


I use to race at a bunch of little tracks all over,
match racing stuff, travel money to fund my racing trips...
Door-slammer, Outlaw Pro-Stock, Top Sportsman/Pro-Gas & Altered stuff

I loved the little tracks they treated you like a king,
even being a nobody if you had a relatively fast car
unlike the big NHRA tracks, I was a nobody...LOL
Hey xman, this is your 1/8 mile track, Green Pine, South of Williamsport.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/G...2e14340142f4c2!8m2!3d41.1684738!4d-76.9792637
 
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My dad & uncles raced there way back in the day. They also raced at numedia. He said most tracks were 1/8 mile.
 
This is what Vaca Valley looks like now....

Vaca Valley Raceway today.png


here's an old flyer

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here's an old view of the full raceway

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Carlsbad Raceway...such a cool place with so much history, especially if you are into Motocross as well as drag racing.

The last race before they closed in 2004:
Carlsbad Last.jpg


What it looks like now:

Carlsbad Now.jpg


Here's a link to all kinds of great pics:

http://www.carlsbadraceway.org/

I never got to race my Satellite there, it was closed by the time I got it done. But I did get to race a 302 Maverick there and a '82 Suzuki GS1100. I also got to race a '77 YZ400 in the vintage motocross races on the USGP track.
 
Here is what's left of Lakeland Raceway near Memphis Tenn. I won my first race there first time out in 71, in my 70-RR. A friend of mines' father owned the track for a while back then so I got to hang out in the announcer tower between runs. At different times they had a road coarse, dirt oval, and motocross track. In the late 70's I was racing my 3rd 70-RR there and got a chance to help prep Fred Goeske's rocket car., while I was admiring his car he asked me to clean the windshield which I eagerly did, then hung around like I was part of the crew,,lol.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2219296,-89.7294302,631m/data=!3m1!1e3
Another piece of trivia, Lakeland was one of the main featured tracks that James Taylor ran the 55 chevy at in the movie "Two-Lane Blacktop".
 
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My Dad took these 1st two pics there at Detroit Dragway late 60's. Was 1st track I ever went to as a kid. Drove past old location this summer. It's a concrete company now.

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LACR was closed 2007 broke ground/opened in 1964

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LACR Dragstrip today opened 1964 closed 2007.jpg
 
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