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[rewinder]

When I lived in Dallas back in 1967 there ws a track I believe it was Action Speedway owned by an elderly gentleman can't recall his name. Most of his tracks were home built plywood flat road racing courses did use braid as I recall.


Any body recall another track was in University City close by SMU if I remember, it had a Red American track...anybody recall that one? As I recall it was off Love Blvd... any one recall?

 Another was a track in shopping center.

Sullivan’s track; almost won a race but my magnets cracked due to using the aerosol spray for circuit boards- worked great in cooling a motor but you took your chances.

Do you remember taking a lighter on a Cox 48 tooth 48 pitch to warm it up and running your motor while the gear shaped to the angle of the pinion???
 Does any one recall??



What about that track in Grapevine 1968/69 Texas. A Mrs., Davis had a combat Strombecker wooden track. Great racing on Saturday night Dean Wolf so you recall that one?????

I remember it was the bus station for Continental bus company in conjunction. Mrs Davis was a go-getter,
 any one recall out there...anybody???


Anybody recall the track down in Houston called Sportscity? Gallaria Shopping Center took over that land,

Way back when in Houston Texas sport city built a lot of the Houston area tracks Broadway Raceways was a flat brass taped Sports City track anyone recall what Loyd Drews did with that track????

Any recall Houstonians??
 Anyone recall the Col's Pasadena racetrack???? Remember his explosive fast 1/32 Cheetah that bud Frazier built for him???

Any one recall??

[MG Brown]

Clay- this may be off topic to your Texas memories but there were a few tracks here and there that were converted to coin-op in the middle to late 70's. There was a coin op track in Cincinnati (bowling alley basement) that I remember racing at.

The coin op worked slick- if a lane was open you dropped your coins and went at it. Wonder why more raceways weren't set up that way?

[Rick]

Clay- this may be off topic to your Texas memories but there were a few tracks here and there that were converted to coin-op in the middle to late 70's. There was a coin op track in Cincinnati (bowling alley basement) that I remember racing at.

The coin op worked slick- if a lane was open you dropped your coins and went at it. Wonder why more raceways weren't set up that way?

Mick, I can tell you why I didn't do that because I also thought it was a real good idea. In Pa when you have any coin op machine, the city charges you $325/yr for the license to operate it and that would have been a $2600 extra expense. I opted to turn the timer, LOL...........

[MG Brown]

That's robbery Rick.

[Tex]

Clay,

Go here http://excoboard.com/TexasSlotCars and look for posts by "tnt2", Tony Griffin; he may be able to tell you about Action Speedway back then. Currently, in the Ft. Worth suburb of Lake Worth, we race at a track that was once run in one of the iterations of Action Speedway by a guy named Travis; here is a link to their track forum http://excoboard.com...SlotCars/148713 and here is a link to that track's website http://www.fatcatrac....com/index.html .

I raced at Grapevine once, around 1970. Grapevine is in the MIDDLE of the DFW metroplex now but, back in the day, it was in the STICKS! I remember as I was coming into Grapevine on the highway that day, there was an old dilapidated, abandoned drive-in theater that had painted on the back of it's "large" screen... "You are Entering a Growing Grapevine"! LOL I remember the locals looking askance at us pseudo-hippies back then; the track was on one of the main streets in the "downtown" area.

I raced at Sullivan's only once, again around '70 or '71. It was supposed to be a "big" race but only the Champion pros showed up. As usual, I was nowhere down in the whatever consi. I couldn't even legally drown my sorrows in drink back then.

Did you ever use any of that 25S wire I sent you?

Me neither.

SOME day.

[Ramcatlarry]

One of the tracks that I raced at was the 'Miniature Grand Prix' of Wheaton, Illinois in the early 1960's. That track had coin timers on it - dime and quarter options -maybe 15 and 30 minutes. I recovered that SAME track in storage in 1992 to start my first raceway - Ramcat Raceway. Took all coin-op boxes off and also never used them on the dragstrip to avoid the 'coin-op tax'.

A lighter/flame trick has always been SOP to quiet the occasional 'bad mesh' of some plastic gears - especially if the pinion is of poor quality.

[macman]

John Ford can tell u all about Dallas racing in the'60s. We had a coin op drag strip in the early '90s when John was selling his c-64 race hard & software.

[brane]

Action Raceway. Run by Mr. Klink?