If you could resurrect any dirt track from the dead, which would it be?

[JabberJaws83]

Lawrenceburg Speedway........

[obamaracing#1]

Old Kankakee before the O’Connor’s re did it

[d-glenn]

Looks like every track I have been to is now closed...lol
Bardstown KY
Kamp Speedway In
Atomic Tn
Kentucky Lake
Cleveland Tn
Garnertown Tn
Green Valley Al
BIR Birmingham
Childersburg Al
Central Alabama (Clanton)
Milam Speedway Tn.. The night Bloomers hauled burned.
Hanceville Al
Bull Ring, Columbus Ms. They only have 1 or 2 races a year.

Soon to be East Bay

[hardracer32]

Atomic in Lenoir City for sure. That place was one of my favorite places to race.
Cleveland, TN if for no other reason the history, but also a pretty cool track
Green Valley in Alabama, only got to go a couple of times but that place was a blast
This post got me reminiscing....

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Lawrenceburg Speedway........

Amen. The new one sucks.

[Krooser]

Hales Corners... not so much for the track but the racers and fans. Ran my first race there in a '59 Chrysler (I won!). Sad to say I hauled precast wall panels to the site of the old track where a Menard's store was built. The old oak tree around which we did after race parties for so many years is still standing. Some guys stop by and pee on her once in awhile for old times sake.

Chilton Fairgrounds... tiny 1/5 mile banked with the stickiest Calumet county clay you could even find. I ran my rebuilt Galaxie late model there (now a Torino) in 1981. Instant love affair. Came back in 1988 to promote the joint (and lose $40,000 in the process).

Cedarburg Raceway @ Fireman's Park Cedarbug, WI... closed in 1979 it was one of our midweek tracks during our five nights per week schedule. Right in the little village of Cedarburg it had a classic wooden grandstand and the coolest atmosphere around. Had to drive thru the Milwaukee ghetto to get there before the freeway's were built.

Beaver Dam 1/4 mile. Our Tuesday night track. Sticky clay. Coupe modifieds. $500 sportsman cars. Natural amphitheater seating on wood planks. Great taverns to visit after the races with great food and cute barmaids. A classic. The only track my wife gave me permission to buy. But I didn't.

DePere, WI... another one that didn't make it thru the 70's. Big, fast 1/2 mile. Mostly ran Sunday nights. Great black dirt surface. Engaged in a late model purse war with Seymour Speedway. 30 miles apart. Both ran Sunday nights. Drew drivers from Iowa on a routine basis (Sanger, Webb et al). Might pay $3,000 to win on a good night (ran for 40% of the gate back then).
Had a paved 1/4 mile in the infield for the old coupes to run on the same nights as the late models.

Metrolina Speedway, Charlotte... Visited there in late 70's. Promoter Henry Lee Furr gave me a free pass since I was a racer and 1000 miles from home. Saw Dale Earnhardt run in a Mustang six cylinder. Later that night I got drunk on some moonshine a guy from KY provided in a mason jar. Woke up in a motel with two of the ugliest women to ever live in the Carolinas. My Kentucky buddy was long gone.

That's my story...

[JabberJaws83]

Amen. The new one sucks.

Yep, you can thank the mayor at the time and a certain NHRA drivers father for that.

[JimBo]

Monett Speedway. (Monett Mo)

As per Monett Speedway Facebook page, the track has been leased by the Easley family. No details yet on what night they will run.

[Krooser]

As per Monett Speedway Facebook page, the track has been leased by the Easley family. No details yet on what night they will run.

Used to visit Monett in the late 70's/early 80's when I was stuck in town without any freight. Sometimes we'd venture up to Bolivar or even the short lived US65 Speedway north of Branson run by Ferris Collier.

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[LeafMaster41]

I-20 Speedway - Blacksburg, SC
7 Flags Speedway(aka West Atlanta) - Douglasville, GA
West Minister Speedway - West Minister, SC
Riverside Speedway - hwy 11 in SC
Thunder Valley Speedway - Lawndale, NC

[3 wide]

The old Boyd's speedway in Chattanooga in the late 70s on Friday night that was the place to be.

[johnE]

Manzanita in AZ

Newberry in SC

[EDERDS]

Columbus Speedway when Johnny Stokes had it at its best at Columbus, MS
Atomic Speedway at Oak Ridge, TN
Cleveland Speedway at Cleveland, TN
Here’s one that a lot of folks won’t remember, Queen City Speedway in Meridian, MS. It was the home track of James “The Wild Child” Dean. This was back in the time when a lot of drivers carried the left wheel in the air most of the way around the track and Dean would carry it as high as anybody.

[Phatdaddy]

I've heard people say Pecatonica at Winnebago Co. Illinois was pretty crazy. I cannot even find it on Youtube.

[STRONGERTHANDIRT]

Paducah International Raceway.