Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-25-2011, 04:58 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 17,197
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-24-2011, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 17,197
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Forum: Race Tracks
12-18-2011, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,803
Re: Name this track
A winnah!! I spent many nights as a youth in these grandstands and many more as an adult in the pits. My first recollection of going here was probably in 1960 or 61. By that time, the crashwalls...
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Forum: Race Tracks
12-17-2011, 12:55 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,803
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-11-2011, 01:47 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,305
Re: S.O.W. Chevy at Ascot
If you have Joe Scalzo's book "American Dirt Track Racer", you'll find a picture of this car spinning out at El Centro. Looks like Bob McCoy's "headin for the basement" in anticipation of going for a...
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Forum: New Members Post Here First!
12-11-2011, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,535
Re: New Member
Great to see you here, Mickey. I spend a lot of time here checking out the history. maybe we'll get some more CRA stuff on here.
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-05-2011, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 25,422
Re: The Agajanian 98 dirt car
I remember Billy from the early 60's selling "cover lenses" to the drivers at Ascot in the years after his injury. Carmen Schroeder did the "Gilmore Roars Again" reunions to benefit Billy.
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Forum: New Members Post Here First!
12-05-2011, 07:58 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,802
Re: New "old guy"
Mitch,
My name is Jerry Hudson.I started in CRA as a rookie in 1978 driving for a guy named Dave Scott who moved out west from Massachussets. We were an extremely low budget deal but I managed to...
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-03-2011, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 25,422
Re: The Agajanian 98 dirt car
I remember this car was owned by Lyle Greenman in 1963 and the mechanic on the car was named Pat Combs. They stopped at the house to pick up my dad on the way to Sacramento for the annual hundred...
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Forum: Race Tracks
12-03-2011, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 118
Views: 147,296
Re: The Ghosts of old race tracks
How about the legendary Manzanita outside of Phoenix?
Looks like when this Satalite photo was taken, the demolition had already begun.
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Forum: Race Tracks
12-03-2011, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 118
Views: 147,296
Re: The Ghosts of old race tracks
Here's a ghost image of where South Bay Speedway 117 was located southeast of San Diego.
This was one of the tracks in addition to Ascot that the CRA ran at. I was fortunate enough to run at both in...
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-03-2011, 12:16 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,429
Re: Missing Leonard Surdam Chevy sprint car
How cool to see these old pics. In the one above of Walkup/Surdam taken at Whiteman stadium I noticed my dad in the upper left. he was a CRA official all through the 60's, 70's and 80's.
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-03-2011, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,429
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Forum: New Members Post Here First!
12-03-2011, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,802
New "old guy"
Found this site a while ago- just decided to register. I used to race with CRA in the late 70's into the 80's. I grew up watching races at Ascot in the 60's and really enjoy the old pics!
Now i'm...
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-03-2011, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 24,783
Re: 1980's California Racing Association
I was fortunate enough to get to race with these two in the early 80's. Dean retired in I think 85 and Eddie continued on till Ascot closed in '90 and maybe a little after.
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Forum: Sprint Cars & Champ Cars
12-03-2011, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 30,375
Re: Old Foyt sprintcar sold....
As a kid growing up in the 60's I got to see this car run. The picture of the car as #4 spinning out is actually former flattrack racer Don Hawley (not Cantrell) early in his sprint car career.
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