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As I posted last week, go fast, turn left, go REALLY fast, turn right, and add a wing,
As Stewart, Kinser and Swindell would attest :beerchug: |
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To hear the noise, smell the fuel, and eat the dirt, is something that has to be experienced, as an explanation cannot describe it adequately. -------Like a lot of thing's in life. :beerchug: |
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I had asked Al one night when we were at Lincoln Speedway if he ever thought about stuff you know when you go out on the track. He looked me dead in the eye and said" Bryan I just hope you guys got all the bolts tight" Not only was he fearless, he also had faith. :beerchug: |
Humans at younger ages have not only less fear, but are quicker to act and react, that is why children learn so fast, and pick up what we say and do.
Also there is the anticipation factor that people have. Some, like me, can't play checkers or cards because I can't do that. Others have a natural instinct as clear as black and white. Like an artist, or musician, you can't learn that shit, you are born with it. But I like others, have been born with the ability to understand mechanical things. So we all are different, with strong points and lesser abilities. "A man has to know his limitations" as Eastwood once so eloquently put it. I've watched motorsports competitors and as well as others over the years, some just have that "knack". Sadly if is fleeting, as any aged "athlete" can attest. But back to the point, to watch a "driver" never lift in a straight or corner and see the Right rear wheel just billowing smoke, and pleading for traction. Then he blips the loud peddle, for a quick bite and darts low or high in a slide job on the competitor. All the while, the hairs on my arms are standing up, producing goose bumps like the the first time I enjoyed a woman's intimacies, so many many decades ago. And if I have to explain that, people would not understand. We all are very different, yet so much alike. Thank God for this great country and the world we live in. I think this should be in "general talk/ off topic" But that decision is above my pay grade. :biggrin2: |
I well remember the sounds bouncing off and over the mountains around Reading Fair grounds. Attended many races and other auto related shows. Then the track and stands were gone in the commercial building frenzy of the '70s. Now the shopping mall built on the fairgrounds is being torn down due to financial failure. The local municipality is looking for tax revenue. But, I live within a couple miles of Maple Grove (dragstrip). I hear engine music every weekend.
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I grew up 7 or so miles from Detroit Dragway.
On a quiet Saturday night if the wind was right, one could hear the really loud ones. Especially Art Arfons with his jet powered Green Monster. I was there for the '59 nationals with my dad. Also made some runs there in '61-62 while in Hi Skool, Still have 2 trophy's :biggrin2: Many a Saturday night after working all day pumping Sunoco, I went to the track, and snuck under the east fence mid track, and watched the last of the action. It was the "right of passage" for a pimple faced kid in "Hi Skool" watching Detroit's finest do battle. Sadly, 37 years later in '96 The area didn't want the "noisy" track anymore and it was closed, 2 years later it was demolished and a large warehouse was constructed. Not a plaque or sign exists, attesting to the "Coliseum" where Detroit's best competed.:angry: The entrance driveway is all that remains. But to us that were there, the location is known like it was "home" :beerchug: |
George, you are giving away your age. LOL I used to visit Milan once in a while.
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They also had a mo'sickill dirt track. Go fast, slid sideways, with no front brakes "hot shoe-ing" I spent a lot of time "puddling" hard surface rod on a friends "shoe" for a few years, that would of been in the early 70's. Milan gained in popularity mostly because, the Dig "D" ---- also called the Dirty "D, as the water was very Sulphur laden and the Restrooms smelled terrible even before they were used, much less at the end of the day. You held your "need" way past necessary, then dashed in and tried not to breath till you got back outside. The ladies mostly refused to "go there" Ha,LOL! We need an "Old Farts" category here on OCC. So them 'youngins kin larn how it was "back in the day" before we is all plum gone, with nobody to tell the stories :beerchug: |
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