I went to several tracks growing up but Haubstadt was the main one and it is still my favorite racetrack in the world. I have traveled the country going to racetracks and the only one I can find that compares is Kokomo.

I grew up in College Hill, what was then a surburan area of Cincinnati, in the 50's. My Dad had a friend that owned a Sohio gas station that sponsored an old coupe at the Cincinnati Race Bowl. My Dad became a co-sponser for the whopping sum of $100.!!! so we went every Saturday night.
Sometime around 1954 my Dad took me to a special Wed. night AAA midget race.. Oh Boy! The late, great Travis "Spider" webb even let me sit in the cockpit after the race. There's more to this, but not for here.

THAT...Dad always took me, starting when I was a pup...saw Opperman, Bigelow, Walkup, etc. Those were the days! Still love it. THAT is where I first took my son and, I expect, he will his.

Fairgrounds Louisville, Ky and Many Sunday's at Salem.

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The track was located between French Lick and West Baden on the east side of hwy 56 which goes through both towns. The grandstand was left from what used to be a baseball park. I believe a team sometimes used it for spring training. Don't know for sure what team or if it was a major or minor league team. A Kimball piano factory was later built on this site. The French Lick Winery is now in this area. There was a pond in the infield, which my brother-in-law managed to end up in one Sunday afternoon when he rolled his car. A couple of the frequent winners were Clyde Wison in a nunber 66 sponsered by Phillips 66 in Paoli and Kenny "stovepipe" Brown in his number 13 from French Lick. A few of the locals would sometimes just drive their cars from home to the track. Times were much different back then. They only ran stock cars. I think they were called "jalopies".

Oswego Speedway on the southern shores of Lake Ontario in beautiful upstate NY. Awesome track. Supermodifieds & NASCAR Modifieds. Seen all the greats, Shampine, Evans, Bodine, Bentley Warren, Bellinger. The aroma of methanol and the roar of the engines under that covered grandstand was incredible. Classic Weekend back in the day was the best. 200 laps NASCAR Modifieds "Bud 200" Saturday night Labor Day weekend. 200 laps non-wing supermodifed race Sunday afternoon. Those were the days.

I grew up going to Tri State Speedway, started going before I can even remember. Watched my dad race sprint cars with the likes of briscoe, cummins, hayhurst, jc, and many many more. What I remember of it was fantastic, I would sit on top of the trailer and watch dad race and scrape the mud off as soon as he got back to the trailer. Also went to Mount Vernon quite a bit. Those were the good ole days, now days I support as many tracks as possible as well as a couple well deserving drivers. Just trying to give back what I can to the sport that gave me so many memories and the best hobby anyone could ask for!!

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I would say it would be Butler speedway around 1970, Back then they ran super mods and stock cars. This was back when the track had the railroad ties-plywood inner wall. The pits were inside the track. They had an intermission back then. So you could go down and run around on the oiled clay track or see the race car and drivers up close. I can remember seeing Hank Lower race way back then. That was on Sat nights.

On Sunday nights we would go to Kalamazoo speedway to see TRI-SAC race. With divers being Sammy Sessions-Kurt Kelly-Carmen Bros-Jeff Bloom.


Back then a road trip was going to Warsaw. Seemed like back then they raced Friday nights--was that right?

You are correct. In all of the years he drove, I don't ever remember him driving a car that wasn't that color. A real trademark of his. Thanks for sharing.