1970's Utica/Rome Dragway Photos
 

I came across some albums of pictures taken at Utica Rome Dragway in the 70's.

http://dragracersreunion.ning.com/ph...agway-19711974

http://dragracersreunion.ning.com/ph...agway-19741978

A lot of these guys are still around Division 1 today. The most interesting thing has to be the pits - looks more like a parking lot. Hard to imagine now with all of the big rigs. And look how close they stood near the starting line...

Thanks to Lynn Morton for taking/posting these.

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Great shots. I recognized quite a few cars (I'm showing my age). Thanks for posting.

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Nice....these are great. Thanks for putting them up here..... WJ

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these are fantastic! i spent my morning drinking my coffee and enjoying these. thank you so much.

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Great site!..I'll spend way too much time going back over these shots. really cool that nearly every car had a name.........Lots of familiar names ,including one with a car I never knew about , D1'S Curt La Sure in a H/G 4 door Valiant !.......Tom

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Very nice shos, love it back the way it was when everybody had to know how to work on there own cars, no bought in stuff

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I'm just guessing here,,but is the orange '69 Camaro "Checkmate" of Tom Fletcher the same car that Dan runs in Superstock today? If it is thats the earliest photo I've seen of the car. Great shots by the way,,,thanks for sharing.
Danny Durham

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Hey,

Did Curt's car have a slant six or just a small block?

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What memories!

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On photo 136, the Spirit of 76 car, is the engine behind
the driver on that?

one of the nicest albums I've seen!

-steve