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echo: oldcars
to: LORI HARVEY
from: GERRY CALHOUN
date: 1996-07-03 19:15:00
subject: Re: Ethanol

Hi Lori,
 > I would love to have factory parts for a 392 hemi.
Heck, I have the whole car :)
 > Do you guys have racetracks out there.  (
 > Drag racing or
 > circle track (dirt or asphalt))?
Yep, With 20 miles of me I have a 1/4 mile dragstrip (LACR) and a road racing 
track (Willow Springs). If I go 40 miles, I have a circle track that runs 
most everything in one direction, and El Mirage dry lake, for Lakesters (top 
speed only cars) in the other.
NHRA Winternationals have been held in Pomona (about 100 miles by road, maybe 
40 as a crow flies) for the last thrity or more years. Outside Bakersfield 
(100 miles) in Shafter they have a nice little strip that has the March meet 
that was "THE" place during the years when the NHRA banned nitro. Since they 
closed Ontario about twenty years ago we have not had a "super-oval" in the 
state, but the city of Long Beach does have a real "road-race" with Indy type 
cars now I believe, althought they had Formula One cars in the late 70's.
Although a lot of the urban tracks have shut down (Lions, Irwindale, San 
Fernando, OCIR, Ascot, Ontario, Riverside, and a couple others... kist for 
Los Angeles area only), mainly due to land prices and noise compliants from 
"newer" neighbors, there is still a lot of racing out here.
Gerry
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