Top 10 "can't find" drag strips

[Mike Jones]

I don't think the turn (right turn for us) was marked leading to Conn. Dragway
Maybe Lee or Mark remember


Mike A114
P/SA

[MikeMoller]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Thorn Hill, Ky

Great place! Back in the day, they had a big dial instead of a tree, when both cars staged the dial woud start at zero and sweep around back to zero. If you left before it got back to or past zero, it was a red light. So it basically showed your reaction time. Never seen it anywhere else.

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by brian schuetta

Brown County Dragstrip in downtown Bean Blossom IN.

HA HA HA, I live about 7 miles from that place. Unless you lived here, can't imagine why anyone would come here. I remember a phone conversation with Alex Dysenko (rip old friend), said he and some guys went there for some kind of match race. Said it was one of the worst tracks he ever raced on. Can't disagree.

It is off a major state highway, somewhat. Yeah middle of nowhere, apt description. We go there (been a couple years) to test and find the bugs in new cars.

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by brian schuetta

Brown County Dragstrip in downtown Bean Blossom IN.

And also Graham's New Hope/Speed's which is literally a cow pasture. Fun place.

[Pinballer]

Originally Posted by bigshow2966

And also Graham's New Hope/Speed's which is literally a cow pasture. Fun place.

Is this the same track I remember hearing about years ago that people called Freedom? Seems there was some gates along the track they had to open occasionally and let returning cars through?

[Tom Goldman]

Lebanon Valley Dragway at 2 AM on a foggy night !
Track is right next to the highway and all that marks it late at night is about a 40 watt light bulb ! Driven right past it occasionally.

[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Pinballer

Is this the same track I remember hearing about years ago that people called Freedom? Seems there was some gates along the track they had to open occasionally and let returning cars through?

Yep, it is in Freedom, IN. I believe it is closed down now, but I went and raced there a couple times and it was NOT easy to find...had to go way back into the woods, over a 1 lane bridge, and then coming in the gate wait for the car in the burnout box to finish the burnout so you don't hit the rear quarter of the car on the way in. Grass strip all the way down the middle, and not a ton of shutdown. I've heard stories of cows from the nearby pasture getting out and in the shutdown area. It was a fun track, definitely a throwback type of track! As far as the gates, when I raced there it didn't have that anymore I don't think...but I only raced there in the last 5 years so I don't know what it was like before that.

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by Ellis V Buth

Yep, it is in Freedom, IN. I believe it is closed down now, but I went and raced there a couple times and it was NOT easy to find...had to go way back into the woods, over a 1 lane bridge, and then coming in the gate wait for the car in the burnout box to finish the burnout so you don't hit the rear quarter of the car on the way in. Grass strip all the way down the middle, and not a ton of shutdown. I've heard stories of cows from the nearby pasture getting out and in the shutdown area. It was a fun track, definitely a throwback type of track! As far as the gates, when I raced there it didn't have that anymore I don't think...but I only raced there in the last 5 years so I don't know what it was like before that.

The day I was there Jeremy Mitchell in his Grand Prix got hit while he was in the waterbox. Guy leaving didn't want to wait and clipped him with his truck and trailer.

Only one turnout for the return road. If you missed it you did a 3 point turnaround and drove back to it.

After my first pass I was driving up to the ticket booth and saw it had armco all around it. Then I noticed the wall along the track stopped at 500 feet.

I see they have last years schedule up on their website yet, so I am assuming it is now closed?