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  • Mud Packer
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 339

    #16
    Rich,

    Thanks for the info. I was lucky enough to have seen a few shows there. I always left satisfied but thought that it could have been improved with the right set of circumstances.

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    • foxfire2dirtracing
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2010
      • 2303

      #17
      Rich:
      Excellent read- thanks for sharing your story with us who had been there & those who are interested in the history of KL. Very good read & professional writing!

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      • STRONGERTHANDIRT
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2015
        • 753

        #18
        The bleachers are now at the new Vado N.M. track.

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        • foxfire2dirtracing
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2010
          • 2303

          #19
          Also very interesting-Kentucky to New Mexico. At least they are being used for the original purpose & not recycled into drink cans- lol.

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          • Clayton_Wetters
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2019
            • 1103

            #20


            And you can see by this picture, KLMS grandstands are really there at Vado!!!
            Last edited by Clayton_Wetters; 01-21-2020, 06:54 PM.
            I'm a copycat wetter... 😎

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            • dirt33
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2007
              • 615

              #21

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              • foxfire2dirtracing
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2010
                • 2303

                #22
                Recycling at it’s finest for the bleachers!- 👍🏻

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                • NeedforLMspeed
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2019
                  • 1905

                  #23
                  I heard somewhere the bleachers from there were either at Vado or New Mexico. Could be wrong.
                  2020 race count:
                  1/2 of an event

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                  • dirty-white-boy
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2007
                    • 997

                    #24
                    My business partner and I.

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                    • 2muchstagger
                      Senior Member
                      • Jun 2007
                      • 207

                      #25
                      The purchase of the track for 990K in 2012 was a play with the sole intent of selling back to the government for I69. They had no intention of ever being long term race promoters. They tried to prop the value up to get a govt windfall and their gamble failed. Otherwise, they could have moved the pits and continued racing if they had long term plans.

                      For those that don’t know, the interstate deal only took the pit area.

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                      • chupp n bloomer fan
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2007
                        • 11526

                        #26
                        $3.2 million

                        Jesus, maybe half that. That’s a ridiculous price. Be great to see it brought back to life as a race track, but I doubt that.

                        Shame they just pi$$ed it all away, didn’t try to be a good neighbor.
                        Up in the air who my next “favorite” driver is. Really losing hope on Bloomer getting anywhere back to “normal”.

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                        • foxfire2dirtracing
                          Senior Member
                          • Jun 2010
                          • 2303

                          #27
                          They probably got 990k or more from the state? Just my opionion -but I think it was all political in getting the track closed. It wasn’t wanted by the local powers at be. Sherri probably took a very large $$ load when it sold for 990k- but I have no knowledge of what she paid for it.

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                          • BILL47A
                            Member
                            • May 2007
                            • 80

                            #28
                            The Heckenast family were not the last owners of this facility. It was Ronnie Jones and Jim Hale.

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                            • TerryM
                              Senior Member
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 3902

                              #29
                              Paul Purvis wants $1.2 million for Swainsboro. Is KLMS worth more than Swainsboro?

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                              • 3 wide
                                Senior Member
                                • Jan 2016
                                • 1137

                                #30
                                This could have been a great race track but instead it is just another example of racing all night the last time I went there I left at 11 o'clock an they were at least 2 hours from running the feature this was with the oringal owners but once you get that reputation is hard to turn it around that might be why they had trouble with locals.

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