Abandoned drag srtip east of Phoenix - Page 7

**Xplantdad** · #61 07-01-2008, 07:04 AM

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Were you the guys that sang that 409 song??

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Nice Glenn...real nice!

TA Guy · #62 07-01-2008, 09:44 AM

You are probably correct with Gardena! I have a lapel pin with the Ascot logo on it. What a cute couple! Way cool.

**juliosz** · #63 07-01-2008, 05:09 PM

This link is has some great pics of Michigan dragstrips, yesterday and today along with some aerial photos: Michigan Dragstrips

**Bill Pritchard** · #64 07-02-2008, 07:57 AM

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Looks like you need an Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring to decipher that writing

Good thing you wrote it in English at the top of the slip!

Great picture of you and Lynn

**Xplantdad** · #65 07-02-2008, 08:02 AM

Thanks Bill. Now that I look back at all of the time slips...one thing definitely pops out...I didn't know what the heck I was doing!

Mid 15's at 100mph...mid 14's at 105...

LOL

I showed the picture above to someone at work...and they asked me if that was my brother

**Bill Pritchard** · #66 07-02-2008, 08:07 AM

I don't think he looks like your brother, but he does look like he's wearing a wig!

**Xplantdad** · #67 07-02-2008, 04:19 PM

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I don't think he looks like your brother, but he does look like he's wearing a wig!

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Yeppers...that's when I definitely had more hair

427TJ · #68 07-03-2008, 03:43 AM

Sittin' here with a cold Heineken and a bag of tortilla chips and not ready to go out and mow the lawn--so here's a couple more abandoned strips in NorCal!

Vaca Valley Raceway located along I-80 just east of Vacaville (translates as "cow town" in Spanish) between the Bay Area and Sacramento. Opened late 50s and closed early 70s. One website said that they tried to revive racing at Vaca Valley in the 90s but locals complained.

427TJ · #69 07-03-2008, 03:52 AM

If you have the DVD of "Bullitt" you have probably watched the back story on the making of the movie and seen the part where McQueen and the Charger driver (can't remember his name at the moment) are up at Cotati Raceway "practicing" for the chase scenes filmed in San Francisco. Cotati is about 25 miles north of SF along highway 101 and was originally built as a WWII Navy OLF (outlying field) for training pilots. Cotati is just north of Petaluma where George Lucas filmed some of American Graffitti, but I digress. Cotati had a road course and a drag strip and Carroll Shelby won the first road race held there in 1957. Being in California, Cotati Raceway was consumed by suburban development and nothing of the former OLF/track ramains today except a street named "Airport Way."

1965 aerial image:

Today:

Circa-1945 as a Navy OLF:

Found a neat website with Cotati pics from the late 50s:

http://wediditforlove.com/Birky.html

LOVE THAT '55!!!

427TJ · #70 07-03-2008, 05:05 AM

Just off of Foothill Bl. (Route 66) in SoCal, just north of the current California Speedway. Track ran towards the northeast from Foothill, which ran east-west.

Track was to the left of my yellow push-pin locator:

Foothill Bl. in the background in this southerly view:

Following photos from the H.A.M.B. thread on old drag cars in action, a GREAT thread. Photos taken by "Mazooma1." Go surf this thread, it's a LONG one, but you will crap at all the killer old photos and Mazooma's are among the very best.

Start here if the link works. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...9&page=193

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