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Old 01-23-2008, 07:22 AM
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Default Back in the day

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Originally Posted by Andrew Teal View Post
Jim,
I was there at all the races. I had forgot there was no guardrail on the main stright. I had taken a great deal of flim with my dads 8mm Bolex. The guys would come to the races in there P51 and land on the main stright. Back then all the great names came Kent raceway park.

Andy
Thank you so much. It is probably because of my age at the time but IMO that was the golden age of auto racing especially Trans Am and Can Am. I doubt that in 45 years there will be historic races for the current cars. The only driver I don't remember seeing was Foyt ??? Great Times.
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