[Jeff Lee]

I spoke to my old roommate Brian tonight. His wife was the track manager (I think that was her title) for many years until recently. Brian informed me it does look like the County & SpeedWorld have made up with the track paying some permit fees and some fines. Thank goodness! I started racing at Beeline Drag-way and it closed soon after and have raced at SpeedWorld off and on since about 1979.Mike Donnelley, the manager in the late '70's when I started racing there, gave Brian and I the track for a day with full use of the timers. Brian had a '70 Challenger R/T SE 383 and I had my '71 Challenger 340. I did more than Brian as his was stock. Changed jets, cross jetted, timing, dwell, launch & shift RPM's, spacers, if it was something I could change, I took a stab at it! At the end of the day I was about two tenths quicker. Can't replace a learning experience like that and it was on the house!

As far as Firebird, Brian didn't have anything other than what's on the street. He thought the land purchase was somewhere between Firebird and Casa Grande which would make more sense as the land values are much lower than closer into the Valley here.
I know this, I sure wouldn't want to but heads with an Indian tribe over something like a land lease! There were some non-Indians in the northeastern portion of Arizona that had cabins with 99 year leases on tribal land and when the were up, the tribe said "see ya!" Apparently some of the lamps fell on the ground on more than one cabin as the people moved out.... and the fire department was too far away...