Things I miss about racing

[FastEd95]

Remembering Ernie Deer rumbling down the front stretch in that STP hemi Dodge Charger. A sound still embedded in my mind.

Never got the pleasure of seeing Ernie run, but my all-time hero in racing is a guy that used to race against him and all the top Midwest drivers and that's Mert Williams. The most memorable sounding cars I've ever heard were Mert's Camaros back in the 1970s, especially at the big half-mile horse tracks in southern Minnesota, Owatonna and Austin. The sound of those engines was sweet music to my young ears.

[doyle hargraves]

I miss those old precision plastics spoilers

[ZERO25]

I miss that black and white, BWRC #18!

[Thedoctor]

Big Johnson race tshirts before the world got so sensitive. “ they’ll get down on there knees when you pull in with a big Johnson “

[SLIDING SIDEWAYS]

☝️☝️I liked these also. Now there's DIRTY (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)S GARAGE. Not as good but still something different

[zer018]

I miss…

I miss a real victory lane celebration. Now we have to wait until we get our Hoosier neckband on and our series/sponsor hat and wait for the confetti cannon before we can actually pump a fist in the air.

[Hoosier_Dirt]

Brett Emerick on the mic at Eldora for the Dream and World 100

[TerryM]

I miss a real victory lane celebration. Now we have to wait until we get our Hoosier neckband on and our series/sponsor hat and wait for the confetti cannon before we can actually pump a fist in the air.

Yep, that whole 30 seconds is a real nightmare lol.

[chubfrankfan]

I miss when cars were built by drivers and crew in the backyard, unloading your car from a stake truck onto a pile of dirt, the flagman starting the race while on the track running between the cars, open trailers and school bus haulers.

[Raceready]

I miss when cars were built by drivers and crew in the backyard, unloading your car from a stake truck onto a pile of dirt, the flagman starting the race while on the track running between the cars, open trailers and school bus haulers.

Awesome, We even had a couple of drivers that used log trucks to haul in with and just unloaded the car with the boom.

[Snake X3]

It's not late model racing, but I really miss Flemington. I think modern late models would have been great there.

I started going to Flemington in the 60s. Most of the memories posted here are similar to mine, only they were the forerunners of the Big Block modifieds. Drivers wore t-shirts and jeans. After visiting the pits after the race, Dad would high tail it out of there to Mr. Bee's on the circle and we'd eat burgers and watch the cars go by on their open trailers.

Flemington was the greatest. I watched them tear it down from my father's hospital room. Sad days.

[Josh Bayko]

I started going to Flemington in the 60s. Most of the memories posted here are similar to mine, only they were the forerunners of the Big Block modifieds. Drivers wore t-shirts and jeans. After visiting the pits after the race, Dad would high tail it out of there to Mr. Bee's on the circle and we'd eat burgers and watch the cars go by on their open trailers.

Flemington was the greatest. I watched them tear it down from my father's hospital room. Sad days.

I grew up going to Windsor or Pine Brook, Flemington and Nazareth, then Bridgeport after Nazareth closed. My first race ever was a USAC show on the Nazareth mile when it was still dirt.

None of it exists anymore. Yeah, Bridgeport is still open, but it’s very different from what I remember.

[Snake X3]

@josh - I never went to the other tracks. Since Flemington was so close, it was easy to watch some racing without traveling. My father used to go to Nazareth and Bridgeport before he was married. I did go to East Windsor a few times after Flemington went paved, but I left the area soon after.

Was Flemington your home track? There is a good site with tons of great pics from Flemington. If you haven't seen it, I'll dig up the URL for you.

[Josh Bayko]

@josh - I never went to the other tracks. Since Flemington was so close, it was easy to watch some racing without traveling. My father used to go to Nazareth and Bridgeport before he was married. I did go to East Windsor a few times after Flemington went paved, but I left the area soon after.

Was Flemington your home track? There is a good site with tons of great pics from Flemington. If you haven't seen it, I'll dig up the URL for you.

Flemington was my home track I grew up about a half hour from it, even a few years into the pavement days, until, of course, I moved west and made Lernerville my home track. I did start sending some Saturdays at Grandview, too, though. 3 Wides Picture vault is probably the site you’re thinking of.

[zer018]

Yep, that whole 30 seconds is a real nightmare lol.

It’s corporate BS Terry. But I forgot, you have your rose colored bifocals on again.