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Those were the days of my childhood.....

This is great! This is the night I was born. Keep up the good work. Jason York

Very nice. I have programs from 1981, 82, 83 and 1 from 86. I got married in Utah while in the Air Force and we did our honeymoon in California. Saugus was a must, and we made it in time to see the 4th of July race. Good times. The 81, 82 and 83 programs are from when I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base.

Good stuff!

Really miss Saugus. To much greed and politics.

Thanks for the content!

In Hanford??? Amazing what used to be... Boo-hu-hu...

I'm so glad that I was witness to those earliest days of PIR when the facility was little more that a ribbon of black asphalt in the desert of the Estrella Mountains. The postal address was listed as Cashun Arizona which does not even exist anymore. So much has changed but, to me, PIR will always be remembered as the south western home of Indy Car Racing (Both Roadsters and the "Rear engine" Funny Cars as they were originally known to the USAC Open Wheel Racing faithful.)

Hi Harold, I really have been enjoying your retro coverage of the west coast CRA and other sanctioning bodies hosting Sprint Car racing. These old programs with the trophy dash through the nightly Main Events with all competitors listed. It sure brings back a lot of great memories. I live in Tucson Az. and never missed a weekend of racing at the original Tucson Speedway under the sanctioning body TACRA. Every once in a while a trip north to Phoenix with the destination of 35th Avenue and Broadway which was the location of the famous Manzanita Speedway was always a big deal to me. The photos of the cageless, track nose Sprinters driven by my heroes of the day are nostalgic treasures. Thanks for all you do and I will keep watching. Cheers to you, Tim Ford.

I believe Mario won that race.

I love the one ad, West Covina Auto Parts. Open till midnight every night. You won't find that happening anywhere today.

Excellent, thanks. Keep 'em coming!

What a magnificent field of drivers! That would have been something to see.

Yep, Eddie Wirth won the 1985 CRA championship.

This is the real deal…very welcome classic stuff!

Do you have the winston west race program from clovis or santa maria for 1972?

Theres still a dirt track at hanford fairgrounds.Last race of the year is tomm. night.

Doesn't look like it, but this is hard-core!

I first went to PIR in 1975 to see the Indy cars race. I was 15 years-old and loved it. I would go there for every race after that for many years to come to include not just the two Indy car races but also the Copper World Classic and when NASCAR finally came there in the either late 70's or early 80's I was there as well. We always sat in section A. Unfortunately, the track has been rebuilt twice now and the start line has been moved as well. It's made for stock cars now and the drivers who set the early history of PIR are forgotten and the stock car drivers are the ones listed as the heroes who made PIR.

The night before this race, they ran Clovis speedway 1/2 mile dirt. I think Jack Mc Coy won.

I was there as well.

Those were the days!

Hulse, Hurtibise, Foyt, Jones, McCluskey, and others. That's quite a roster. I assume that Devitt is Jack Devitt?

I started flat track in the 500 class at Corona, then went to motocross and raced there when they had the 'big hill' off the far side. about 2 times a month I'd race there.

Jim was a great driver....🏁

I lived in the area for years. I found it interesting to see the advertisers. Places I went to and knew many years after the speedway was gone. I especially liked the ad for the waste disposal business on Vermont. "Bring your waste to us!. Agajanian's is too far!' For those who don't know, the Agajianian family that ran the speedway also were in the trash disposal business. The stuff they picked up that was food they fed to pigs and the money from that they used to go racing. They had a pig mascot on most of their cars.

The first dirt track my Dad took me to. . 1968..they had the oval and the motocross track and a BMX track later in the 70s with a big downhill start...Corona Raceway is at the beginning intros of the original Herbie The love Bug...

Remember this sadly. To be followed not long after by "the other" tragedy for Dr. Caruthers....

Sound like sabotage

I miss Corona Raceway, lived in Corona for 20 years, great times on Saturday nights with the 1/4 mile dirt stockers!

I liked the photo of Thompson and Kennedy.

Hello, I see You mentioned the racing programs from Carrell? I'm interested in a race car driver named Lou Figaro. He was a popular driver during 1940s 1950s. I appreciate it.

Entirely too confusing.

Thanks for posting this historical compilation of the track. For when I was a youngster 50+ years ago when driving past the track and seeing cars running and once when Indy cars did run on it and hearing them approximately 9 miles away. Amazing!

I know I'm very biased, but Dad was one of the best drivers at Ascot in a stock car. He often said that Ascot was his favorite track. But NOBODY was better at Ascot than Parnelli Jones, no matter what kind of car he drove. 😉

Thanks for posting this Harold. I sent you a couple articles from Dad's scrapbook from that 1959 race at Sacramento on Facebook Messenger. 🥰 By the way, up until 1962 any Pacific Coast late model race of 100 mi or more was considered a Grand national race.

The stock cars that raced the Sacramento mile dirt in those days were the Pacific Coast Late Models which became Winston West, now ARCA West.

Hi Harold; the stock cars that ran at Sacramento fair grounds in those days were the Pacific Coast Late Models which became Winston West, now ARCA West.

Missing is Louis Unser who also raced there.

Thanks, enjoy your videos

I beieve the year Howerton won Foyt blew an engine in qualifying. Held up program so foyt could get a replacement. Do you think they would of held up for Howerton?

I used to have a box full of programs from Ascot, mostly from the 70s. I think my dad tossed them many years ago. I wish that I could look at them again. My dad bought your book at Perris years ago, and it was among the books I kept when he passed away in 2014. I still read the book occasionally.

I lived less then 5-6 miles from the track,wed ride are bikes down to the track every weekend,i still live in s- tee,the tracks long gona ,ill allways have those memories🙏

My dad won his first of 3 NASCAR West Coast 100 mile races there at Sacramento just a month before in September of 1959. All the greatest race drivers in the country raced at the Sacramento mile at one time or another. Love all these videos that you post of drivers and races from the past. 🥰

Was surprised Doug Forts "Santa Maria Speedway" 1/3 clay track was not on the '65 CRA schedule that popped up in this post. I know that the CRA opened his Speedway in '64 and are still racing there in '24 as I've been attending CRA shows there starting 1976 😮😅😊. Maybe Doug had not perfected his track prep 😵‍💫 and it was a heavy/ rough surface that produced a serious risk of life and limb 🥹🥴🫡. Anyway, enjoy these Retro Reports my friend. Thank you for your time. Indeed I've subbed and always hit the like even if they are not open wheel stories 🏆👍🍻

Must have been 77, first time Phillips and Wallace came out west......was awesome , still miss Saugus !!!

I was most likely there, dad never missed the B speedway....home track.

Ivan was the best fabricator/driver i ever knew. The only other person that i knew that could build a car as good as any fabricator and get to the track and drive as good as any driver was Ron Hornaday jr.

My dad drove a 1958 ford race car at orange show in1972 his number was 545 it was a lot of fun

Thanks for the post!! 👍🇺🇸🏁