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Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
National Dragster was/is the voice of the NHRA.
No tracks listed in MO (MoKan, KCIR, MAR). Only 1 track listed for Kansas (Great Bend, converted air strip, site of the first US nationals, still in existence). |
Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
Found this in a Start & Strip from 1969. They were selling these almanacs which contain a "complete dragstrip listing". Since I donīt have one of these almanacs, I donīt know what made a track get on the list or not. http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ingAlmanac.jpg |
Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
Just noticed they included W. Germany above in the "Sanctioned Drag Strips" that Ramstein AB (USAF) was included. Never knew they had a drag strip there. Very Cool!
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Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
Some pics from Ramstein in this blog. Itīs in Swedish so it wonīt be easy to read, but there are some musclecars in there. I bet dragracinghistory.de would show some nice pics but the website is not up for the moment. http://k-retro.blogspot.com/2011/03/...vaterland.html Just scroll down ! |
Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
OOHH Anders, Your Scandinavian vowels and consonants are so discombobulated, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] what are they saying??? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]
LOL [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] DH [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] |
Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
Bump. Curious if anyone has anymore old papers on NHRA sanctioned strips in the 60's - 70's. I just picked up a NHRA decal for New Hope Drag Strip in New Hope, ALA. From what I understand it was NHRA sanctioned for 3 years. That's probably why it is listed in the paper Anders posted. The New Hope track closed many years ago but being a local area track it was cool to find a decal.
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Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
get the book "Lost Drag Strips." pretty good reading.
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Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just noticed they included W. Germany above in the "Sanctioned Drag Strips" that Ramstein AB (USAF) was included. Never knew they had a drag strip there. Very Cool! </div></div>
It was an old portion of autobahn A-6, that used to run through the Base. That piece of A-6 is still there and leads out to the 435 CTS site leaving the West Gate. When I was stationed at Zweibrucken AB back in 80-82 we would do rapid runway repair on that portion of the old A-6, EOD would blow a hole/crater and we would go out and practice patching a simulated piece of the runway. Fun stuff (NOT). Sembach AB runway was also used for weekend races, they had road races on it and thru the taxiways and had a drag strip layed out, the runway was inactive for quite a while then got repaired and opened back up. Bitburg AB runs drags on the summer weekends now. http://www.1on1-motorsports.de/mambo45/ |
Re: 325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?
Great history John. Can't keep those American airmen from doing what they love!
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