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Originally Posted by michiganmadman:
I could be wrong, but I think that Carmen Manzardo drove that car at the Knoxville Nationals. I think the year was closer to 1987. Speedway Airflow wings also had a multi level wing they were testing about the same time. Butch Scroeder?

Carmen's car was his own creation. The computer car was Tom Johnson from Texas.

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Originally Posted by Ovalmeister:
Anyone remember this? I don't. The photo just said "San Jose 1982". Looks a little top heavy. :rolling
David.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../SanJose82.jpg

Yep...sure do,back in the day when those West Capital (Super/ Sprint) came to run at S.J. Fairgrounds(Wayne Sue,John Viel)...thats how they looked with an ole style CAE tail.....sure were different lookin....also my home track's bein from S.j....and shown in my Avatar is 1/2 mi. at fairgrounds late 60's...me in lead of coarse!!.....
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Originally Posted by cmakin:
A whole host of tracks ran the Supers in northern California. They were more than just sprint cars with wings, although many of the NARC teams would put a wing on and run with the supers (back before NARC ran with wings). They ran on asphalt at the old San Jose track on Tully Road, at Stockton, Roseville and Madera. I believe that they still run at Madera.

When they shut the Tully Road track down, the racing in San Jose shifted down the street to the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

The "unlimited" supers ran on dirt at West Capital Raceway and later on the "new" dirt in San Jose. Limited supers ran at Hangtown (now Placerville), Chico, and Grass Valley. That was some awesome racing back then.

The supers eventually morphed into winged sprints. Well, at least the ones on dirt did.

One of my favorite websites is the West Capital Raceway nostalgia site. It really takes me back. Lots of pictures from the seventies and even further back. Other local Norcal tracks besides Capital, too.

http://www.westcapitalraceway.com/

I was raised at the track on Tully road. I was born in April, and by June my Dad and Mom had me there just about every week. I have so many great memories of that track. Going to the pits after the races, sitting in racecars pretending to win the main event! I was still pretty young when they closed the track. If I remember right, they ended up putting a self storage facility where the track used to be. :thumbsdown: I haven't been back there since 1991. My parents moved to Indy a few years ago, and my Dad said that the track in Anderson reminds him of the old San Jose speedway, so we are going to try to take in a race there this year. :thumb

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Originally Posted by AustinSprinter:
Yep...sure do,back in the day when those West Capital (Super/ Sprint) came to run at S.J. Fairgrounds(Wayne Sue,John Viel)...thats how they looked with an ole style CAE tail.....sure were different lookin....also my home track's bein from S.j.
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I didn't get down to West Capital as much as I would have liked in 76 and 77 since I was working up at Hangtown. I do recall that late in the season, some of the San Jose guys like Rescino, H. Kadeing, etc. would bring their asphalt cars and run against the SMCOA folks on the dirt. Those "no names" like Patterson, Sills, Anderson, Andreeta, Gurney, Veil, Sue, Tiner. . . . .

Man, that was some good racing. It absolutely ruined me.

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When I first moved to Northern California in the mid-80's, the San Jose supers differed from sprint cars in a numver of ways; the lower frame rail had to be 2x4 rectangular tube, so a lot of the cars were sprint cars with additional tubing welded onto the lower rail; they also weighed a bit more than "sprint" cars. The big wings, were, for the most part, gone by then, since most of the cars ran conventional sprint wings. Old Open Wheel magazines had a few feature articles with pics of some of the San Jose supers from the mid-80's.....

Baylands and San Jose(Santa Clara County Fairgrounds) - I was fortunate enough to see races at both tracks.......

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Can't quite recall the exact date, but remember reading an article on the Super modifieds in a magazine, with the main focus being on two drivers, Mike and Mark Sargent. Ring a bell for anyone?

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Originally Posted by sprinter25:
When I first moved to Northern California in the mid-80's, the San Jose supers differed from sprint cars in a numver of ways; the lower frame rail had to be 2x4 rectangular tube, so a lot of the cars were sprint cars with additional tubing welded onto the lower rail; they also weighed a bit more than "sprint" cars. The big wings, were, for the most part, gone by then, since most of the cars ran conventional sprint wings. Old Open Wheel magazines had a few feature articles with pics of some of the San Jose supers from the mid-80's.....

Baylands and San Jose(Santa Clara County Fairgrounds) - I was fortunate enough to see races at both tracks.......

I never got to Baylands. I move out of CA in 1977 to go off to college in New York. Then I ended up in Louisiana.

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Plenty of room for sponsorship opportunities!

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Maybe these were for the vision impared track scorers. Never mind, that covers most scorers.
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Originally Posted by fishnman:
Can't quite recall the exact date, but remember reading an article on the Super modifieds in a magazine, with the main focus being on two drivers, Mike and Mark Sargent. Ring a bell for anyone?

Yep..sure does!!....racers them selves,are the sons of Marshall/Wanda Sargent!!...of the Famed PURPLE #7 that Marshall drove to numerous Local/State Champinships thruout Northern/Central Ca. back in late 50's-60's-70's!!......got to be older big names out there with tons more memories than I can ever remember!!......Kaedings of Campbell for one!!....
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