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If anyone is interested, not long ago someone posted a video on youtube.com as to what the Van Isle site looks like today. On the youtube...
Southland Dragway was located on W. Park Ave. about a mile S. of 90 , the remains can clearly be seen, it is across the road from Bonvilla Ct.
I have enjoyed reading all these posts. A useful site in finding old tracks is historic aerials.com. The hr site only seems to work for the the...
I was on the old Route 66 a few weeks ago. Williams, Seligman and Oatman, all in Arizona are neat old towns. Oatman is a step back in time, an...
I was in Kalispell last year about this time, early August and saw a few street rods at the McDonalds near the fairgrounds. There was also a car...
The track is definitely Inyokern. When the track was closed in 2005 for the expanding airport it was the oldest NHRA sanctioned drag strip.
I grew up in Long Beach and raced at OCIR from 1975-1978. The South Bay Racing Assoc. was a very strong group of bracket racers who at that time...
440 Dave, Wayne Jr. and anybody else that is interested there are several pictures of Wayne's car at Irwindale on auto imagery.com. Look for their...
I never knew Wayne but I remember this car very well from Irwindale Raceway, which is where the above picture was taken. When Irwindale closed in...
Van Isle was opened in April 1967 and closed in Sept. 1972; certainly not a long time for a track to be in operation. It is getting more...
Butch, I research old drag strips using NHRA track guides and google map satellite imagery as a hobby and Van Isle is one that ,quite frankly, has...
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