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For anyone interested in the old graffiti covered dragway we all drive by so often, here's a neat little article the New Times just put out:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackal ... y_mesa.php
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My dad had a friend who used to race his ford pinto there. I never got to go. Thanks for the link
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I saw the title of this thread, and assumed it referred to Highway 87 itself ...
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When I was a kid that was the place to be, Funny cars, The Little Red Wagon wheelie truck and a dragster with the engine in the rear....WOW!
The rear engine dragster of course as everyone knew would be a short lived fad.
Also to give you an idea how much the valley has grown and how quiet it was. Once before the races ended my dad drove a friend of mine home who lived on Shea about where Hayden is.
Standing in the front yard of their remote desert home, since Shea didn't go to Beeline yet for a few more years, we could actually hear the dragsters.
Ten miles away as the crow flies.
The rear engine dragster of course as everyone knew would be a short lived fad.
Also to give you an idea how much the valley has grown and how quiet it was. Once before the races ended my dad drove a friend of mine home who lived on Shea about where Hayden is.
Standing in the front yard of their remote desert home, since Shea didn't go to Beeline yet for a few more years, we could actually hear the dragsters.
Ten miles away as the crow flies.
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1974 Winternationals @ Bee Line Dragway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqMYDpWtePE Look in the crowd starting about 5:00 maybe you'll see yourself...
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Wow no kidding the guy at 5:06 in the lower left with white shirt and long hair looks exactly like me in 74.hikeaz wrote: Look in the crowd starting about 5:00 maybe you'll see yourself...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Always wondered what that was. Have passed by it a million times. Thanks for the post.
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My Dad used to Drag there in the early 70s a 57 Chevy... had won lots of trophies for the service station that he worked at in Prescott.. I grew up at the drag tracks in the phx area...playing barbies on the trailer that hauled the Hot Rod to the races riding in the truck from phx to Prescott...
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I've wondered what that was for years ! Thanks for the info!
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