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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: Valiant_Showoff] #749614
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Sorry, the picturs I have of these tracks aren't in digital form to post. Here are some locations of a few in my area that are long gone. Use Google earth to see whats left.

Continental Divide Raceway, Castle Rock CO
39*20'06.25"N and 104*53'08.32"W puts you right at the transition from the pits to the burnout box. Property was sold to developer. Utilities and roads were installed before project went backrupt. Layout is hard to make out since its been gone so long, but it incorporated a N-S dragstrip along with a road course. Lots of big names ran here and it was a stop on the match race circuit for most fuel racers as well as the SCCA Trans Am.

Pikes Peak Speedway, Co Sp Co
38*50'13.86" N and 104*43'20.11" W puts you right at turn 1 This was a small /4 oval track that ran through the 1970s. Another hard one to make out as it was plowed under for a highway interchange.

Sportsman Raceway park, Co Sp CO
38*50'34.12" N and 104*41'56.61" W Puts you in the middle of the infield of this 3/8 mile oval. Active in the 1960s, it sat unsed for 20 years before the city bought the property and turned it in to baseball fields using the banking as containment for the outfield.

Pikes Peak International Speedways
38*49'50.74" N and 104*39'55.28" W puts ou in the pits between the 3/8 mile oval and 1/8 mile dragstrip. Active through the 1980s, it was shut down by a developer with the help of a senator who owned the dairy farm over the ridge. Claimed his cows wouldn't give milk on Sundays after the races. Development got sucked into the Savings & Loan crisis of the early 90s and has sat ever since. This layout is still easily recongnizeable.

Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: TC@HP2] #749615
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: ProStDodge] #749616
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: ProStDodge] #749617
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tired race car.

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This and the above pictures were from a drag strip found on a road trip to Georgia last year.

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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: ProStDodge] #749619
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Track car.

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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: ProStDodge] #749620
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This and the above pictures were from a drag strip found on a road trip to Georgia last year.




Where in Georgia? What track? Sad to see them fade away but you can't save them all.


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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: TC@HP2] #749621
07/18/11 12:50 AM
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First off... Cool Posting !
What about the old drag strip located outside of Erie, Colorado ???
Last I knew the paved surfaces including the return road where still there and the land around it was still bare?. ( last time I seen it was in the 1990's)
I heard that it was used by the property owner as a private runway for his crop dusting plane..
I remember it was located just Northeast of the town of Erie,Colorado ( ie, Not near/at the airport there) But they called it the "Lyon's Dragstrip". Not to be confused with the other "Lyons dragstrip" in California....
I remember It was just south of the colorado speedway exit off of I-25, Like the next exit down from it's main interchange...
Very popular in the late 50's, 60's and early 70's and then I don't remember it after that..
I would like to see any pictures of it from back in the day.
My dad owned and raced a yellow 70' torino 429 cobra back then there.
Father in law owned and raced a red 66' chevelle 4 speed, super sport 396 ( the 375 hp version)
Both cars are still in our families, But no pictures off them at these tracks.

Another drag strip I remember was outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming that I actually raced at myself with my first demon 340.
I hear it now is just a part of a frontage road, Just off of Hwy 85 now, But still has a post standing that was used for lighting the track...
I remember it was south of the city across the hwy 85 from their oval dirt track..
Anyone got picks off that one too would be appreciated???
I do remember the drag strip down at Castle Rock, Colorado too that was already mentioned, But it was closed before I got to race there as I usually only went to bandimere or pueblo by then...
Anyways, Again I think this is a cool post and like hearing about the old tracks.
Keep them coming!!!
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: TC@HP2] #749622
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Here's the link to the old Dover Dragstrip in Wingdale, NY.
I raced there in 1967-69 with a 440 R/T and then a 69 Mach one.
What memories!
http://www.doverdragstrip.com/
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: Shoozy] #749623
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This and the above pictures were from a drag strip found on a road trip to Georgia last year.




Where in Georgia? What track? Sad to see them fade away but you can't save them all.




I don't know about the cars but from seeing Calhoun on the side of a couple of them, I'd say it's Paradise DragStrip in Calhoun, GA. AFAIK, it's still open but I did hear the owner and founder, Otto Timms, passed away in February of this year. The cars may be at that place right off I-75 near Ringgold? I can't remember the name of it.


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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: I_bleed_MOPAR] #749624
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Here's a pic of what used to be Yellow River Dragstrip.
It's now a trailer park. This is where Huston Platt had his accident that killed 11 and injured 40 in 1969. The strip never reopened after that.


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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: I_bleed_MOPAR] #749625
07/19/11 03:21 AM
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: moprod] #749626
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Beeline Dragway, Phoenix, Az. Drove by the old track today. Decided to stop and take a few pics. I guess the track was open fron 63 to 74. All the big names ran there. Home of the AHRA winter Nats.

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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: Crizila] #749627
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: Crizila] #749628
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Re: abandoned race cars or racetracks [Re: Crizila] #749630
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