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Thanks for all the replies, So no one has any pictures of the drag strip when it was running??? I was hoping to see some.
He use to race a Blue Pontiac GTO called Ole Blue. It was a Pure Pontiac.
A buddy and I raced the Drag Strip for a few years. Mostly 79-83 and we had alot of fun, got 2nd in point's one year and didn't even know they had points..lol We had a 1967 Chevelle called SWEET EMOTION, that's one thing I loved about Drag Racing. You could name the car. Anyone remember the other Ed Dixon and his little ChevyII?
A guy named Stan Lynn used to run a ChevyII there back in the late 70's early 80's
Actually a flood is what built the dirt track.
In the 70's an elderly lady was leasing the drag strip to a fellow who had raced a modified with Allied (old coupe with 348/409 power). There came a flood and he was paid for the damage done to the strip, tower, out buildings, ect. He repaired what need to be repaired to continue racing and used the left over money to build the dirt track.
Some of the old timers on here will probably remember seeing the track from the Interstate as it progressed, only to find progress stopped. At that time flood ins. was, and may still be, backed, provided by, guarenteed by, whatever they called it .... the Federal Goverernment. They paid off on these ins. policies. Some how they found out all the money had not been spent on what it was paid out for and wanted the funds returned or the insured property repaired. He figured that rather repay the money he would fix what the funds were payed to fix.
At that point the dirt track layed dormant for a time until he had the money to go forward and finish up. Floods have played a LARGE part in the history of I55 Raceway.
THANX RICH
People say I'm getting crankier as I get older. That's not it. I just find I enjoy annoying people a lot more now. Especially younger people!!!