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Post by vernonace on Sept 3, 2011 15:53:40 GMT -5
I was a member of the forum Boomer (Joel Gish) had and he mentioned about this track. Does anyone know anything about it? I emailed Boomer asking about it and he unfortunately passed away before he could answer it.
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Post by olracer55 on Sept 4, 2011 0:23:38 GMT -5
I have heard about the track but I never knew anything about it. racer20 might be able to tell us something about it, he is from there. I sure wish Boomer was here for this. Him and Slayton Durrett was the two that convinced me we should start OVRA back up.
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Post by racer20 on Sept 5, 2011 16:39:53 GMT -5
There use to be a race track in the late 50's or early 60's it was behind the old Fannin's Store it was between Sunset Corner and the Flower Hill Community about 5 miles west of Spiro on Hwy 9
We would go there when I was a young boy and then go to the Jenny Lind track the next night.
A friend of mine here in Spiro Floyd Nance (97 years young) said there was also a track at Sunset Corner when he was a young man that had a big mud hole in the track and according to him that was the key to winning keeping the car running through the mud hole.
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Post by vernonace on Sept 5, 2011 16:51:17 GMT -5
Great information. Relative to Jenny Lind Speedway what years did it run?
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Post by racer20 on Sept 5, 2011 17:34:55 GMT -5
Don' t know exact years had to be around 1964 or 65, later on in 1973 the old dirt track was part of the motocross track we raced bikes on I will try to find the exact years it operated as a dirt track if I can.
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Post by grant53 on Sept 11, 2011 17:52:50 GMT -5
Great information. Relative to Jenny Lind Speedway what years did it run? The last year they ran there was in 1965. It was the first and only time Ive watched my dad hot-lap a car. No wonder it was a good thing he was builder instead of a driver. lol |
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Post by wagonmaster on Sept 12, 2011 11:44:24 GMT -5
Don' t know exact years had to be around 1964 or 65, later on in 1973 the old dirt track was part of the motocross track we raced bikes on I will try to find the exact years it operated as a dirt track if I can. I raced on that motocross track in the early 70's. I remember thinking how small the old oval track seemed to be. |
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