Dayton speedway?
 

Just want to ask how many on here every seen a race a dayton speedway?

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been to dayton many times. saw sonny ates set the world record in the Iddings car, saw parnelli, AJ etc and i guess i attended the most races during the larry & gary show era and, for some reason, i remember being impressed with a guy by the name of cy fairchild during the larry & gary era.

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I seen many.

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Saw Herk sail out into the trees probably about 1960 or 61

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I remember the track and the steep rutted drive to the pits.

Rob Hoffman

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I started in 1960, when I moved here from Wisconsin, and watched sprint cars and midgets race up to it's closing.

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Saw many races there. One of my last memories of the track is when Gary B. set a new qual record of 16 seconds flat in the Ace Nut & Bolt Special (my recall faculties are off more and more so feel free to correct me.)

We mostly stood in the infield and watched.

:crying:Those were the days.:crying:

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Oldtimer that I am, I also watched many great races there. My favorite might have been the Jan Opperman win in the Longhorn Racers (or somethin' like that) car. Until then I had thought of Opp as pretty much a "dirt only" guy, not that there is anything wrong with that. :wink Sonny Ates in the Iddings car was breathtakingly fast there. :eek:

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Saw several races. In the late '60s we would see a race there. A week later we would watch the same race on TV a week later on Dayton's channel 22.

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I seen my first race in 1946! We used to go to all the roaring roadsters on the 1/4 mile and all the big car races! First time i seen lloyd ruby he was driving a midget on the half mile dirt at the bottom of the high banks! A night race!

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Duke, did you ever see the jalopies race at Frankie's Forest Park on the north side of Dayton?

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Didn't Opperman also win a USAC Midget race there?

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:applaud:YES MIDGETS AND ROADSTERS! IT WAS ON NORTH MAIN WHERE THE SHOPPING CENTER IS! THE ROLLER COASTER DIPPED INTO OF THE RACE TRACK!

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yes he did on a sunday afternoon!

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My first trip to Dayton I saw Pat O'Conner, Tom Cherry, Sam Skinner, Red Renner, Dick Frazier, Pat kirkwood and a lot Of the Mutual Roadster Association guys. Here is a photo I took with my trusty Kodak Brownie. Hope you enjoy
Dusty

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Also see the pulfer garage 8 ball behind tom's 38 it was from port jefferson ohio bout 4 miles ne. From sidney on st rt 47

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thanks how bout jim mcwhity roy prosser crash crocket avery mcadams zane howell bobby beeson smokey stover red amick bob stokes harold mowell evertt burton pete allen i can go on and on! Great racing!!!!!!!!!!

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Dayton was where I began to ruin my hearing, and it was well worth it!
Back in the day, the admission for a USAC show was $4. and for an extra $1. you got a reserved seat in the front two rows. This seemed well worth it to me as the stands were kind of shallow and you couldn't see the front stretch very well from furthur back.
Anyhow, I tried to be first in line to get one of those first row seats where they swung up so close to the wall I could almost touch the car. Besides, the stands had a tin roof back then and the sounds would reverberate as they blew by.
Races were generally on Sunday afternoons back then. When I went back into my summer job on Monday morning, some coworkers would ask how the races were. My answer--"great, my ears are still ringing!
See you at the 'Burg.
:greenflag:

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Wasn't Orville Epperly, from the Dayton area? I believe he raced there but the accident he lost his leg in was at Winchester.

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YES HE LIVED IN DAYTON LIVED ON THE WEST SIDE! AT ONE TIME LATE 40S AND 50S A LOT OF DRIVERS LIVED THERE FROM SPIDER WEBB TO ELMER GEORGE! AND MOST HUNG OUT AT CHARLIE ENGLES BAR ON CINCINNATI ST!:checkered::applaud:

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I went from the mid sixties until it closed. Witnessed some of the more well known events. The Jimmy Smith exit through the trees off of turn two. Claire Lawicki putting the Benovich 54 under the guard rail so far and back out that they had to take the steering wheel off to get him out. Somewhere I have a photo of the car in the infield and the valves covers were missing and the rocker studs were even bent backward. The Larry and Gary show at Dayton was some of the scariest side by side racing you will ever see. Plus it also was always a question whether or not Sonny Ates was going to break the world half mile record in the Iddings 93. He just kept trading it back forth between Winchester and Dayton. Those were great times and fond memories.

Vern Plotts

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Does it sound familiar to anyone that the old Fort Wayne Speedway, Dayton Speedway, and Salem (?) were basically carbon copies of one another?

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Was at the Engle place on Cincinnati St.plenty of times.when my dad bought the old 31 car. I used to love Charlies stories about Shacklelford, Nazaruk etc. I wonder what ever happend to all the pictures he used to have hanging around, some were in the 2nd & Beckel location where he was murdered and some were in his other bar. Have you ever ran across anybody that knew what happened to those pictures Duke?

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frank funk had a lot to do with that!

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i think shorty miller got them?

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How about Wayne Alspaugh, Jocko Wise, Kenny Eaton, Bud Femeyer, Doc Ashbaugh, Buck Teal, Nelson Stacy, Floyd Robins, Dutch Hurst the brains behind Mutual Roadsters, George Tichener, Gene pyle, Hig Hilligas.....and Joe Helping the man who thought up the little 500.
Dusty

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ok you list all the drivers you can! And i see if i can add to that list! Doc was from dayton!

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how deep is the snow out there?

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You all come to the party tues!