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Post by Spin on Dec 1, 2018 5:21:22 GMT -8
I'll start this off with a classic supermodified at Cloverleaf Speedway. The supermods look completely different now, and Cloverleaf (like it's sister Canton Motor Speedway) looks like a limestone yard.
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Post by woosprints12 on Dec 3, 2018 19:51:44 GMT -8
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Post by Spin on Jun 30, 2019 8:41:03 GMT -8
In memory of Auntie's participation in the forum...
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Post by Spin on Oct 27, 2019 16:48:08 GMT -8
Davey Allison, Oxford Plains Maine
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Post by Spin on Nov 8, 2019 18:53:33 GMT -8
Randy Sweet and Dick Trickle. Rest in Peace
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Post by Spin on Nov 9, 2019 5:58:50 GMT -8
One of Randy's more famous rides. Set a bunch of records with that, and IIRC started the whole Outlaw Late Model movement that still rules in this part of the country.
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Post by Spin on Nov 11, 2019 14:10:55 GMT -8
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Post by Spin on Nov 25, 2019 16:59:08 GMT -8
My favorite era of late model racing Local wheelman Mark "Captain Sizzle" Malcuit at an ASA race.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Sept 18, 2023 1:41:36 GMT -8
From the LOST ANGELES Facebook page, posted by Luis Herrera 1919 - BEVERLY HILLS SPEEDWAY Jack Prince and Art Pillsbury built the Beverly Hills Speedway in 1919 on 275 acres of land, at a cost of $500,000. The 1.25-mile wood oval, which featured 45-degree banked turns, was funded by a group of actors and others in the industry known as the Beverly Hills Speedway Syndicate. The track was inaugurated on February 28, 1920, but after only four years the 70,000-seat stadium was disassembled to make room for other improvements in the newly incorporated city of Beverly Hills, holding its last race on February 24, 1924 before a crowd of 85,000. The Beverly Wilshire Hotel now occupies part of the former speedway track. The developers eventually moved the racetrack to Culver City, and it was located at the intersection of Culver Blvd and Overland Blvd, right across the street from MGM Studios. It was at this "new" location and "new" track where Red Cariens was involved in a fatal crash on November 29, 1925. It was also at this location where Mickey Rooney's classic racing movie "The Big Wheel" (1949) was shot. This speedway was built at a time when car races were popular, so popular in fact, that there were radio broadcasts from the speedways. California had approximately six wooden track speedways, also known as "toothpick track" speedways. Culver City Speedway operated from December 14, 1924 to March 6, 1927; it was eventually removed to make way for movie studios. The Beverly Hills Speedway was notable for having only three fatalities, one of these, famously, was Gaston Chevrolet who was killed there in 1920, having just won the Indianapolis 500. By now Gaston and his brothers Louis (founder of the Chevrolet company) and Arthur had established the Frontenac Motor Corporation, building, ironically, cylinder heads for the model T Ford.
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