abandoned race cars or racetracks

My dyslexia is setting in again, strip is on the RIGHT side of the oval. I corrected the post.

Some pic's of Motor City Dragway, Closed in the late 60's or early 70's. (I can't remember, but I do remember the old radio ads) Motor City Dragway

EDIT: the author of that thread states late seventies, But I remember driving by it around 75 and seeing it abandoned then.

http://motionraceway.com/racersreunion.html

Pics of the Belpre Dragstrip today. Closed around 1963-'64, not sure just which year. It is located about 1 mile from my house.

pit area

approach to starting line

down track view,,,it has been used as road to get to oil wells in the area.

At least,,the road it was located on has been given an appropriate name!!! Some of the younger folks in my area, think the road was named that because of ME!

Fred, I knew there used to be a drag strip over there but, I always
thought it was where the grass air field is on the north side of
Rt. 50, on the way out of town.

We used to drag race on 618 back when I was around there.

No, Vic, it was located on Township road #97. "Dragstrip Rd." takes off 618 between Redwood Resturant and Shell/Kraton plant and runs toward Mill Branch Rd. past the Yellow Trucking terminal and on over the hills. In fact, the man that owned the Redwood owned the Dragstrip too,,,and of course the Redwood had drive-in/curb service then, so he got the Saturday night business as well as the Sunday drag business!

I know where you are talking about. I've ate at the Redwood.

Forgot about this!!! I have one of the flyers framed in my shop. It must be for the opening day in 1961 as I know it was open several years before then.

Heres a link with a bunch of old pics of a Aquasco Speedway in Southern Maryland. It also has pics at the bottom of the page of what the track looks like now.

http://www.atomicpinup.com/Aquasco_Speedway.html

http://www.lakelandraceway.com/images/wheelies_wagon_tank.jpg Lot's of info from the track I frequented as a kid lakelandraceway.com Long gone but not forgotten.

Tucson Dragstrip closed about 1985 (sometimes known as Tucson Drugway - as the promoter was flying stuff in from Mexico and using the track as a landing strip).. picture taken in 2002. Left lane. You can just see the right lane. The housing developments are right next to it now.

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.

definitely not my idea of "proper" race car storage

69 road runner?

tired race car.

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

Track car.

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!!!
Grant Eaton 386-561-1181

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/
Don

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.


Tim

Nasty Nick......For sale

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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