75-80 Dragway to reopen
 

Found out today that they will open on the 3rd of April 2009 @ 4 o'clock and its going to be IHRA. Their website is not set up yet but they can be e-mailed at e-mailinfo@75-80dragway.com

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Here is a link that can help people get an idea of what is happening there....great to see a dragstrip come back from the dead!

http://www.75-80dragway.com/

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cant wait to eat those sloppy joes

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It'd be great to see the trend of dragstrips closing due to housing development reverse itself and plow under some of the overbuilt ,undersold developments that popped up all around race tracks because of cheap land and unscrupelous developers........But then I woke up! ....Glad to see a historic track like 75-80 come back regardless of who is sanctioning it. ....Tom

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I am very much looking forward to this. I'd like to have a class race there if the racers will support it...let's see how things go.

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Looking at their website, it appears it's mostly about heads-up/Outlaw racing. Don't know if they'd be interested in a S/SS race. If they would be, I'd be willing to help.

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75-80 was the birthplace of Stock Superstock Associations. Lee Sherman and Fred Reich must have pulled some strings from the great beyond.
I made my first pass at 75-80.

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I won my first race at 75-80. Would love to see a few bracket races or a combo race end up on that schedule.

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I won an all Ford race there back in 1999.
I am very suprised to see it re-opening, but am glad none the less.

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Great to see 75-80 soon ready for a new beginning in April. I talked to Kevin Stanley on Tues. He sounds enthusiastic and they are moving fast to make improvements to make this a great race track. Their website is up, lots of different classes, mostly heads up and index stuff but test and tune available also, 1/8 and 1/4 mile racing. Will be there opening day. Can't wait! My introduction to drag racing was as a 15 yr old in 1961 at 75-80, I was hooked right away. Won my first trophy, mom's 62 dodge in 1962. Starting selling drag news same year and finally worked in the tower some in 1963, got to do announcing that same year. I announced there from '64 to '72 and then again from '86 to '95. Have been announcing at South Mountain, now Quarter Aces and Maple Grove and now currently at Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way. A big regret was that I didn't attend the last 75-80 event in 2005, had just worked the Dutch Classic at M.G.
and hadn't been home for awhile and was beat. Now I get a second chance, Hope the last race is many years away! Long Live 75-80 Dragway. A big pat on the back to Bill and Betty Wilcom and the entire Wilcom family and all the staff members that worked hard and made it a fun and great place to race over the last 46 years, 1960 - 2005.

Mike Bassin