History Lets see your Kil-Kare Dragway pics

I was looking thru the thread for the National Trail Dragway pics & got to thinking about Kil-Kare in Xenia,Ohio just down the road from NT.
I know Kil-Kare isn't as big or as well known as some tracks,but I'd be really interested in seeing any pics you guys might have.I remember lotsa teams like Sox & Martin,Jenkins,Ohio George,etc..There was alot of S/S action too.If anybody has anything please post. Thanks

 

Here is my Chevy II that ran there. This is from 2005.

 

I think Kil-Kare is real well known.

 

They have a nice "OLD TIME DRAGS" event in August every year.. It keeps getting bigger and bigger.....

 

btt

 

carlos that looks like dinks primered early model a with the flathead from blanchester ohio.

 

Yep thats Dinks and my ole 53 We was grudge racin Thought I had him 1st run missed 2 he got me 2nd race he cleaned my clock Flat head to flat head but had a blast

 

last year when jim dropped the rear end in the beast

 

btt

 

Here's a link to Kil-Kares photo archive.Good old pics.

http://www.kilkare.com/B&W Dragway Archive.htm

 

thats cool !!!!! too bad the pics are b&w though

 

These are cool.I especially like the pics of Dallas Lunsford.He gave me my first high school job at his Knollwood Shell Station when I was 16.I think about those days alot.It was a great job for a 16 year old kid.The young people today are missing out on this.

 

Btt..just trying to keep this thread alive

 

I never met Dallas but his brother Harold and I have been friends for years.
Cool pics.

 

Not sure if these were taken at Kil Kare but Ault & James Speed Shop is in Dayton so I thought they deserved an honorable mention.

 

Yes...I know Harold.He's a good guy.

 

Bumper

 

Here's my Kil-Kare story.

In 2016 the Inliners International club was having a convention in nearby Dayton. I organized a drag race at Kil-Kare for inline powered cars. As luck would have it, the two cars I brought down to race ended up in the finals. I drove my "THE LAST LOGGHE" orange altered and my neighbor George drove my white roadster pickup "THE FRENCHTOWN FAMILY TRUCKSTER". This was Georges first final round appearance and I could tell he was nervous about the whole situation - performing well and not letting me down as my driver, yet with mixed emotions about having to race me as well as anxious about the prize money on the line. So I said to him, "Lets split the purse 50/50. Put a dollar in your pocket, and when I beat you you owe me a dollar!"
That took much of the pressure off him.
Long story short - he beat me! In the winners circle we got a pic of me handing him a dollar.

The Kil-Kare team were wonderful to us. Here's a video of that final round.



If you ever visit the Xenia area know that it is the epicenter of bicycling in the whole country in my opinion, with rail trails extending outward for miles in every direction (one takes you right to the track from the downtown hub.)

 

Went there a lot as a spectator and then got involved with a guy named Len Silvers that had a superstocker then this early funny car...Here is his car and a few others...

 

The "Bloody Red Baron". My avatar in it's later suit! Oh, those good old days.
Uncle Sugar interrupted my time with the "Baron" but what a great car.

 

Me too....

 

Btt