Where And When Was The First Real Drag Strip You Raced At?

Grumpy

The Grumpy Grease Monkey mechanical engineer.
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for me it was 1966 , miami hollywood , once it opened in about mid spring,
the race track closed in about 1992 or so after they built a bunch of condos ,
near the track and people living there complained about the noise.
I was 18, up until that time we raced at an open abandoned millitary air strip,
that was over two miles long near miami dade college,
or a similar open military air field in opalocka



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami-Hollywood_Motorsports_Park

https://www.dragzine.com/news/flashback-friday-south-floridas-miami-hollywood-motorsports-park/
 
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I was in St. Louis maybe , 1970 when a rail ran 171 mph! I remember the announcer said " That will stand a long time" Almost impossible to go faster!!!!
 
ATCO NJ . My cuz build a 67 KAMARO & was running in the B/MP class,typical small block,tunnel ram,olds 4:88 rear etc,etc.It was kinda unique because he was experimenting with a early Trans Brake.I did take it down the track twice. I hated it,ya had to get 2nd gear just right or it would go into 3rd,I turned a 23 the 1st time out,mo MPH on the slip.Did better the 2nd time but he kept the slip,I have the 23 slip somewhere/lol! Probably would of been better if he used a Power Glide.
 
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