Showing posts with label drag strip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drag strip. Show all posts
Friday, June 05, 2026

Bandimere, now and then

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26669182192764616&set=a.486840984758761
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Thursday, December 25, 2025

they are breaking ground on an 1/8th mile drag strip in Callahan Florida (on the Georgia border), and it's expected to be operating by May 2026

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  https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/step-closer-reality-callahan-speedway-breaks-ground-dragstrip/2R6AXFPZDFAK5CJ2JSV7MCFLUM/
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The International Hot Rod Association has officially completed the acquisition of Memphis International Raceway and Memphis Motorsports Park

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1445233474311708&set=pcb.1445234410978281
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Monday, May 05, 2025

the County Circuit Court Judge has ordered operations of Sloan Onondaga Dragway to cease immediately, the neighbor Rebecca Lindsey, complained enough. I'm guessing, that the track was there before she was

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In the lawsuit, Lindsey contends the track is a nuisance because of the amount of noise and vibrations it generates. Aquilina agreed.   This...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Eagle Field, the WW2 airstrip, and recent annual dragstrip, was sold by it's owner Joe Davis because his health was failing. It's been bought by a flying car company CEO

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 the drag racing moved to Mendota Raceway Park. The new owner asked for too much money, the drag racing organizers talked to the new owner, ...
Friday, May 31, 2024

It's really cool to see a back window full of drag strip decals! ( I'm pretty sure this is a 55 Chev )

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=432141416243744&set=p.432141416243744&type=3
Tuesday, June 07, 2022

The Tennessee State Library and Archives have photos from Bristol Dragway back in the black and white photography days, here's the link

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I'll guess they can't pull a crowd like this for an NHRA event unless they bring back these exact race cars, at the same admission p...
Monday, December 06, 2021

the end of an era, drag racing in So Cal is over. The end of legal, publicly accessible, quarter-mile drag racing now that the Auto Club Dragway follows the others that fell before it; Ontario Motor Speedway, Riverside International Raceway, and Fontana Drag City

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Pomona, home of the NHRA will still host the Winternationals, but the track is not open for regular drag racing events. that Houston Racewa...
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Thursday, April 08, 2021

the christmas tree, is that in a gas pump enclosure?

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-421#post-13477030
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

How did a drag racing location get to be known as a "Drag Strip"

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CJ Hart did a lot to organize street racers into racing on an old airstrip in Santa Ana in 1950, and called it a Drag Strip. https://www....
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Never take your eyes off anything pointing the business end your way, with the safetys off. Murphy's Law will get you every time

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/253239161526236/permalink/1219354478248028/
Friday, April 05, 2019

the US Marines built the Woodburn drag strip from the old Woodburn Airfield in 1958. It opened in June 1961 as an ⅛-mile dragstrip

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in Oregon, rodders started Woodburn Drag Strip with men and machines donated by a pictured USMC unit practicing airstrip constructio...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

the entire length of the track, is coated with stickum. Isn't that great? No more spinning, no matter how much power you bring... on the other hand, what's the point of racing a vehicle with wheels if you're racing on glue? Might as well drive on gears that mesh with a splined track surface

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymH9YwGtCx4
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

I made it to Carlsbad once or twice before it closed... damn shame that by the time I'd have my Super Bee in shape for racing, they'd shut it down for noise

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http://georgeklass.net/dragsters.html
Thursday, January 18, 2018

After more than half a century of burning rubber, Englishtown / Raceway Park is ending the dragstrip, the longtime site of the NHRA Summernats, it reached the end of the business for profit ideal

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The Napp family, which opened the raceway in 1965 and continues to operate it privately, decided to end drag racing, and convert the gra...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Where did drag racing begin? Santa Ana? Goleta? Where is the historically 1st 1/4 mile where two hot rods squared off?

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When CJ Hart came to Santa Ana in 1944, he found a bunch of outlaw kids drag racing dangerously in the streets and wanted a safe place f...
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Saturday, December 02, 2017

a simple way to protect the dragstrip timer guy? Cement or concrete storm drain piece

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because the above can injure or kill the track guy pretty fast, the below center cylindrical piece seems like a damn good idea ht...

photos left over from the final edit of Lost Drag Strips II.

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http://scottygossonexposed.blogspot.com/2016/04/free-lost-drag-strips-ii-bonus-pages.html
Monday, February 20, 2017

rosin, also known as gold dust, and here are two of the greats using a liberal amount.

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Boundary Bay Raceway, Vancouver, B.C., in 1975 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/dragstrip-rosin-hydro-motive-hydromatic.10429...
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Friday, January 06, 2017

must have been a damn handful to race these

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed