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Freaking awesome! Give me more.

Wabash 😅 thank you for sharing. From Georgia

Great video! I grew up right below the Accord Speedway off of lower Whitfield Rd, I was the young kid on the 3 wheeler.

I wish one of these tracks in the area of New York and Pennsylvania. (Yeah that’s a big area) Would start a bug class! And get rid of the full body, 4 bangers with the fart cannons for exhaust. I bet if you started a mini modified bug class. You would get a lot of competitors.

What an awesome video! I still have some of the old memorabilia pins and such when my Uncle took my sister and I there for the first time in 1983. Fast forward a few years and I found myself there again but this time on a pit crew 358 class #71 Louis Bray. I still remember the racing lawyer...Flack and Barefoot Bob McCreedy. And of course Kenny Tremont. Great memories! Thank you for sharing such a great piece of history.

My father first took me and my brothers to Lebanon Valley around 1959. I still have some black & white photos from back then. I remember the Yellow X, Butch Jelley, Doug Garrison, Dexter Dorr, Stretch van Steenburgh (an old Dutch name in an area full of Dutch names) and the starter standing on the track and waving the flags, jumping up wildly. Oh, those were the days.

I went there once with my family around 1965, I would have been six years old. My recollection is rather vague but I remember walking down a dusty road from where we parked to the hillside next to the track where we sat on blankets and had a picnic. I remember a black 55 Chevy with number ‘55’, a loose wheel and tire coming up the bank and nearly hitting us, and I remember seeing the “yellow X”, Butch Jelley.

Made on half lap at Fonda in car 88. Steering locked and went off the back stretch down on to the old track next to the mohawk river. Army got me and never went back.

These guys built their own cars and engines. Now days everything is store bought. All cookie cutter cars now. I have lots of respect for the old time racers.

This was back when you could somewhat identify the model of the car. Today’s mods are just a bunch of sheet metal put together.

Anyone have any footage from Dorsey Speedway in Maryland?

BORN PITTSFIELD 1948 / NEW LEBANON CENTRAL TILL 1961 / GREW UP WITH ALLAN COMANDER (CLASSES 1-8TH GRADE) / MOVED TO CALIF /GE TRANSFERED MY FATHER / BEEN BACK TWICE / LAST TIME EMPIRE SPRINTS ( CHUCK HEBING) / I NOW LIVE IN ROT CHESTER / CHANGED TO MODIFEDS ( MAYNARD RICHIE BENTLEY COOKIE SONNY BARRON / THE OLD DAYS WITH REAL ENGINES (400+ CUBES) / REAL DRIVERS

None from airborne Park speedway in plattsburgh NY

C DCoville

I have a 36 Nash two-door businessman Coupe. I would like to convert it into an old race car. I would like to bring it to the tracks in Upstate New York. Did those cars have flat-head eight cylinders in them?

Peter was like a Godfather to me. I grew up spending a lot of time at his and Dorothy’s home with my parents and brothers. We would swim in his indoor pool and if play tennis with him on his tennis court. He could beat anyone, even with one leg. He was a mentor. A kind man who had such determination. He never said no! He was always up for a challenge. I have so many fond memories of him. I loved him like an Uncle. ❤

This is got to be #1 for family history, they wrote a freaking song about Pete!

sulivan co. speedway,bethel white lake,and other names i dont remember max yasgurs farm,, raced there till 94

They should bring the half mile back where the 1 mile track is now I spent a lot of time at the half mile loved it there probably would be a better place with more crowds of ppl I go to Grandview and big D all the time and is always a ful house

Anybody know what they used for gears on the mile?

I absolutely love the valley..been going there since the late 70s..when I die,I'll probably haunt that place,then I can sit in the tower for free!

Come my lady, come come my lady, your my butterfly, sugar baby

Am 86 years now …remember some of those cars and tracks…..Wabash Canonball….right tune for that. Thanx Rich Rice.

Who drove the 55 Chevy Casper car in the 60's?

Old School, I am 80 and have similar memories. Thanks!

That was the REAL pass in the grass.

Burden Lake WOW

What a crowd at Fonda!

Any pictures of me picking up soda bottles for 10cents a case? It was 1954. I was 9yrs old. Uncle and my dad were into racing then. I was there to make money. I think I made more than the race winners.💰 vs 🏆 Ed Forfa

Wow., at minute 2:07 they're talking to Kenny Tremont., and was the driver that I was installing and maintaining all of his 2-Way Radio equipment (as Klein Communications) I believe somewhere in the mid 1990's when Guy Madsen, owner of "Madsen Overhead Doors" was one of his biggest sponsors, as I serviced all the 2-Way equipment on Guy Madsen's service vehicles. Also, sometime in the late 90s (or ealy 2000s.?) was when I designed, built and installed a low-power FM transmitter for the roof of the Dragway control-tower, so that everyone, whether in the "line-up" or in the parking areas (to far from the PA speaker-system to hear clearly) could easily listen-in (on their car radio) and keep-track of what was going on from the tower announcer. It was set to 107.3 FM (quite close to the Country music station, 107.7) Does anyone know if that system is still in operation.?? I used to live only 2 miles East of Howard Commander's track (a few turns in from Adams Crossing Rd) and helped-out Don Kline, Howard's right-hand-man for many years, before I left the area to move to north-central West "by God" Virginia. Regards, Eric Klein

My Dad raced on many tracks in the northeast in the fifties and sixties. He just turned 99 and has many wonderful stories of those days

Loved Pine bowl Speeday. Used to go every Sunday when I was a young teenager to watch car 21Y!

Earlier on my father & always got there early on those Sunday's to Nazareth to get up in the covered Grandstands, dad always wood get his large cheese. Steak as soon arrived

Wow , i was 12 years old . I was there for Lazaros last feature win at fonda .

Great footage thnx Back when every small town & cross roads had a race track 👍

Do you have any old pictues of Bruce Quick car thank you from the accord speedway or of Bob Hinkley in the 33 Pete Kater was the driver

Pete Corey was my favorite driver at Fonda Speedway when I was a kid in the early 60s. I remember Number 3 very well.

Sad what has happened to the old tracks.Flemington track saturday in sec 7-8 every Saturday in the mid 70's problem was too young to appreciate what once was.

What track is this???

Still makes me mad they tore this place down. I won’t ever support the businesses that moved into the area.

I grew up hearing stories of this and other local track's. My uncle Bobby Pearson was a driver, my father John "Jack" and his brother's worked on the cars. Around 1977 I helped my father remove and graft the flat bed that they used to haul there cars on onto another truck. 1979 after my father died I found the original track.

Great old speedway! Used to go there every Sunday in the early to mid sixties when I was a young teenager! always packed with cars and people!

love this stuff...home films/photos are awesome

outstanding historic footage...thanks snooch77

Please.put.danbury.fair.race.track.

Love the videos. If you have any footage of Sonny Rabideau # 311 I'd love to see it

Remember being thier and watching my Cousins race..

Racing at 5 Mile, gives you a better appreciation of your home track.

6:29 aluminum wheels ?

my grandfather was in that lead white car they called him the shoe!