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Track End Features and Length Speculation

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Most Historic Drag Strip in America? Hot Rod Golden Era Time Capsule Lives Here!! (Super Sketchy)

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The tour continues to the end of the track, revealing more historical artifacts. Ronnie notes that the original track lacked lighting, limiting races to daytime until lights were installed in the mid-1990s. He highlights an old tree and remnants of what might have been a judge's stand, now overgrown or partially removed. They discuss the track's length, suggesting it might have been a quarter-mile originally, given the placement of old features, despite current use for shorter distances. The condition of the asphalt and concrete sections indicates multiple repairs and overlays over decades.

Goal: Observe additional historical features and discuss the track's original length and usage.

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dang and we were out here one night what was the name of that car godzilla beautiful 67 camaro fast he started getting sketchy coming down through there he lost control and he hit the he hit the concrete that was right here it was this big around that tall he hit that and the back of the car clipped clipped the light right there it clipped the cable the cable was just swinging wow and when he hit that it knocked it completely out of the ground it knocked it in two pieces it was that big around solid company wow so we run down here he's unconscious he's trapped in the car the car's catching on fire we can't get the guy out luckily the fire goes out we get the guy out he had some messed up legs but he was unconscious when we got down here and that was a that could have been a bad one is that you can see a little bit of round indent in the asphalt there is that where it was that could have been where it was yep this is right where it was at because when you hit that the back of the car went up like this and then it came down on its four wheels but the back of the car the spoiler hit that was it concrete down here well yeah you can see uh possibly the track was concrete then but you can see right here it stops and it turns to asphalt it may have been asphalt the whole time but look right here you can see concrete where it goes from here to there you can see concrete there it was concrete from wall to wall yeah like it alternates i don't know if the track i don't know if they had concrete here and asphalt here i don't know that was in 68 that's only 10 years old it looks like the it stops well there's like a little bit of a groove here that looks like it might stop but over here it looks like it might just be like side pieces it doesn't make a whole lot of sense why would they just make a little strip here they may have cut it they may have cut it out that's asphalt out here guess that drains not draining much anymore they used to work down both sides uh the drains come out down here at the end of the track this is so crazy of course back then we didn't have mile per hour we had to finish it was good enough for them still had fun this place right here was a hot spot during the golden age of hot rod all of it 68 go to the dealership buy a brand new 68 camaro and take it here even now now it's back and you got 16 year olds ripping zl1 camaros through here technology times have changed but the buildings and the walls haven't the drag strip's still a drag strip…

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