Originally Posted by jack dupp:
dad took me to my first race which was a usac du quoin 100 lapper. Foyt battling to the win with parnelli, bettenhausen... Ect. I was hooked. While rubbing elbows with the top finishers post race on the front stretch dad dropped his sungalasses on the track and shattered a lens. That was a hard dirt track!
or cheap sun glasses!
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Originally Posted by old time hoosier:
afternoon races on dirt tracks have always been dusty, dry slick and hard but two of the worst for all three of those were the iowa state fairgrounds in des moines in the fifties and el dora in the sixties.
did you look at the posted ken coles photos? Or have dick wallens movies from that era?
