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

To: "land-speed submit" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] modified street cars & your old drag strip
From: "John Szalay" <jpszalay01@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:04:20 -0500
> 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
>
>

 The Kahuku airfield we used in Hawaii, was closed down after the Campbell
industrial park raceway opened in the early 60's. and is now part shrimp 
farm
and the rest abandoned, too short to be used again .
and I read that the Campbell raceway closed two years ago. leaving no place
for  the Hawaii guys to run,     (Hawaii Raceway Park  closed April 2006 )

Ronald Leong  (The Hawaiian )  got his start there at Kahuku.

                                John 
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