[Land-speed] modified street cars & your old drag strip

[Skip Higginbotham]

Famoso near Bakersfield was my home track. Made many, many passes and 
set a couple of records there. It is the home of CHRR and still 
operating. My first win was at Inyokern in 1956...... now closed.

Skip





At 08:11 PM 11/2/2008, Dick J wrote:
>I wonder what happened to everybody's old hometown drag strip.  The strip
>where I first raced in Valkaria, Florida is now the municipal airport.  There
>is an old strip near where I live now, outside of Tyler, Texas, that has been
>divided in half and turned into an industrial park.  Recently, the strip at
>Hallsville, Texas closed down and is going to become a mobil home park.
>
>What about you guys?  Whatever happened to your old hometown strips?
>
>DickJ
>In East Texas