At 07:24 PM 11/24/2003 -0700, W S Potter wrote:
>When Airport #2 was opened for the races it was in the middle of rolling
>farm lands. It has been used as a military training airfield during WWII
>but was only used for touch and go landings by pilots who were flying out of
>the main Salt Lake airport. There were roadsters, coupes, an occasional
>midget or dirt track car and many coupes. No one would have been so uncool
>as to run a four door car. They later ran road races on that field until
>around 1964. Now it is a busy, full service military support base and is
>surrounded with homes, right up to the fence lines.
I remember goin to the drags and to the road races there when I was a
teenager. I particularly remember several of the local oval racers comin
out to the drags to see if they could do better than they were doin at the
fairgrounds. They didn't.
Ray
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