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

[Mike Lackey]

I'm a bit younger [OK, a LOT younger :) ] than most of you, so my hometown
track in Palmer, Alaska is still alive and kicking.  However, it originally
opened in '64 as Thunder Valley Raceway, so it was operating when many of you
first started racing.  It was Polar Raceway when I first raced there.  It's
one of the most scenic tracks you'll ever see if you get a chance to visit;
the track is located right at the base of a large mountain that you head
straight towards.

Several years ago my father bought the track and now runs
it as Alaska Raceway Park.  http://akracewaypark.com/

Mike



----- Original
Message ----
From: Dick J <lsr_man at yahoo.com>
To: land-speed submit
<land-speed at autox.team.net>; Elon <saltfever at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday,
November 2, 2008 8:11:28 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] modified street cars & your
old drag strip

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


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Elon
<saltfever at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Elon <saltfever at comcast.net>
Subject:
[Land-speed] modified street cars
To: "land-speed submit"
<land-speed at autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 9:27 PM

Wes. What
used to be mud flats and farm land is all gone. The drag strip
land has been
converted to very large auto mall. All other land from there
to the estuary
(except the decommissioned land fill) is developed industrial
property. Every
spec of land from there to San Jose is now developed (on
both sides of the
freeway) with either shopping malls or industrial parks.
Silicon Valley
Industry has overflowed to Fremont due to the
"relatively"
lower cost of
square footage compared to across the bay. You got out in time
:-)



Sun, 2
Nov 2008 From: Wester Potter <wester6935 at comcast.net>

(snip . . ) We used to
go over the Dunbarton Bridge to the Fremont Drag
Strip from Menlo Park.  I had
my first glider ride at the airport next to
the strip.  I think that area and
the farmland around it is all high $$$
housing today.
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