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Till around the mid 80s

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There are a couple of pictures on here of my dads old Thames panel "Southern Thunder". He looked at them and remembered that day well. He said Bobby Warren beat him at 4 cars. I wasn't around in those days but I'm lucky to get to hear a lot of war stories from J.W. Taylor, Bobby Brown, Thomas Cashwell, and my dad. They have tons of good stories from the 60's and 70's.

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i remember charlie blaylock wrecking a red convertible corvette i think he just bought from bobby warren,wiping out the lights on the top end.white lightning mustang discarding trans case right off the starting line.jimmy jacksons six cylider g\gas anglia.when nathan howell brought the cheetah to the track with a narrowed rearend and ladder bar suspension, the first in the area at that time.my last tim at the track was 1975,a sunday fall day. daddy was running a 78 roadrunner ss/ca hemi,that broke the crankshaft on top end and scattered the tranny.that ended his drag racing until i started racing 4 years ago.

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I'm glad to know Bobby & J.W. and those guys are still around. Stay tuned I'm going to try to put a couple of old Sanford photos on this site.

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Wow, looking back on some old posts before I got an account on here and saw dad's race car (the "Hot Stuff" Camaro) on here. We still have and race that same car in Stock Eliminator! I know this thread is almost two years old but if there is anyway you can email me the two pictures that is of dad, I would really appreciate it. I love looking at all these old photos of back in the day. The two pictures, are the third picture down on the second column and the fourth picture down on the second column. Let me know, and I can give you my email address.

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I was wondering how I missed this thread when it originated a couple of years ago and then I realized that it was started just after my dad (Robert Bullard) had passed away. I am sure I have many photos that I could have contributed. That was our "home" track and where I first drove a car and learned how to race. We raced there every Sunday afternoon and Friday nights when they would run on Friday nights. Great racing.... when racing was racing!!

Clay

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I'm glad this thread came back. I had forgotten about it and have since gotten alot of old photos out from tracks around the state. There were so many dragstrips in North Carolina, when you go through boxes of old photographs it is hard to determine which track is which after so many years. If your are an old racer like me, get the photos out and show them to your children and grandchildren. Tell them some of the stories associated with the photos, the cars and the racers that raced them. If you don't pass down the stories, when you and I are gone there will be no history of the fun we had at these tracks and racing in those days.

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I was in Whiteville today and went by the Old Drag Strip (columbus county dragstrip ) I stop and took a couple of pictures there was not much there but it took me back to the good old days.The first picture is when it was running back in the day.Then the old starting line and what is left of the tower.

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It is sad to see what the old Columbus County Dragstrip looks like now. I raced their many times years ago on Sunday afternoon. In the area I live we too had A nice old Dragstrip that was full of cars and spectators on Fri & Sat nights for many years. But the owners saw $$$ signs and sold it to A home builder and the track was closed and tore up, That was 5-6 years ago. I drove past the old location about 1 year ago and I did not see 1 home built. Well that was then and this is now. Times changes,some time for the good and sometimes not so good. Allen

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Wow did this bring back memories from when I was a little girl. My dad was Harold Stewart and he owned El Toro. There is nothing more heart warming than to know he is still remembered 28 years after he passed away. If you have any pictures, I would be thrilled to see them.