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#1 Jay Guard

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Posted 25 May 2018 - 06:37 PM

A couple of years ago I sold my first Ogilivie four-lane home track and replaced it with this track, which was purchased off eBay. It came from a basement location about halfway up the west side of Long Island. Pics show the track just before Cheater and I took it apart and carried the sections up a stairway with a turn halfway up; the only way out. (Never want to do that again...)

 

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It is a design I have never seen before nor has anyone else I have spoken to.

 

I'd really like to learn who made it. Greg took some pics when he was down a few months ago to help strip the braid and clean up the surface of the sections (which was very difficult, as naphtha wouldn't touch the grime; we ended up using Soft-Scrub mixed with some solvent).

 

Notable features:

 

Single tongue and groove connecting the sections. 

Bracing under the straight and curved sections

A different kind of adjustable leg design.

 

I know I have seen these type of legs before but I'll be darned if I can recall when or where.

 

Anyone have any info for me?

 

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Posted 25 May 2018 - 09:45 PM

The leg design was one that came from Brian Gailey in San Antonio while he was helping Hasse and Hasse started using it, late '80s.

 

It could be a Hasse Nilsson track.


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Posted 26 May 2018 - 02:58 AM

Just like on our Hasse King (2004). Need some spare bolts? ;)


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Posted 26 May 2018 - 11:59 AM

That is very similar to the track at Elmhurst Slot Raceway in the mid sixties. The Elmhurst track was not pinched in after

the bank, and had a much larger donut. Also, the back straight had a dip downward after the donut, which made for some

pretty spectacular jumps. It was an eight lane track, and I understood it was built by the facility owners, Kandeby and Sunbury. 

Sunbury's kid, Rick, and I were good friends. We played football together in high school, and when he was at the track I was

never charged for track time. I have no idea what happened to that track, or the drag strip that I pumped many dimes into.



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Posted 28 May 2018 - 08:30 AM

Sorry, Jay, I have no idea who built it. But I'd love to race it!

 

Enjoy.

jb


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