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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Connecticut Dragway
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12-05-2011, 05:57 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Vidalia Drag Strip
Warner Robbins Dragway Camp Wheeler, Macon, GA Claxton Dragway All were in Georgia Last edited by FrankChastain; 10-30-2012 at 06:47 AM. Reason: added another |
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12-05-2011, 08:55 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Sanford Maine
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12-05-2011, 09:03 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Charlestown RI (Airport - like Sanford ME and Orange MA
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12-05-2011, 10:03 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
When did the Rhode Island track close? I raced at Connecticut Dragway from the mid 70's until they shut down and only heard talk about the Rhode Island facility. Incidentally, Connecticut Dragway was still being used as a dragstrip and test site for USAC to test new vehicles to report 0-60 and quarter mile times as well as stopping distances, etc. It might still be in one piece, it sure was an easy place to get to, but the bite was lousy. It was a good place to test and tune, if your car ran well there, it would run even better anywhere else!
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12-05-2011, 11:02 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
hey paul/neil,
jackson/kings dragway in south bulter ny were i got my start . i think it was 1960 (i was from wolcott) i would sit on a garbage can at the stop light ask a racer for ride to the drags. (i was 11 yrs old). phil harnden ss/ia/super gas |
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12-05-2011, 11:22 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Frank B. - Connecticut Dragway is now a Consumer Reports test facility. The drag strip and tower are still there.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/c...celeration.htm
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12-05-2011, 11:29 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Alton IL ditched class in high school April 1960 to watch the "GREEK" in the first 200 MPH dragster run, Oswego also in Ill, Meadowdale in Carpentersville Il, and Lake Geneva in Wis--Comp
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12-05-2011, 11:35 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Also went to US 30 outside Gary Indiana a lot too.--Comp
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12-05-2011, 11:47 AM
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Re: Lost Drag Strips
Fremont, Half Moon Bay,Vacaville and Kington all near the S.F. Bay Area
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