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Posted on 02/11/2010 7:02:57 PM PST by NYTexan
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What’s with that instant Wet Patch their using back yonder?
LOL...know what ya mean.
This race has a long way to go. Still waiting for a big one. Good racing so far.
I think somebody stole some of those signs locally.
They’ll be a collectors item some day.
altho I actually see that a stretch of city street , long advertised as being repaved by ARRA and long overdue for attention with more than a slurry coat and gravel, is now being worked on.. it was a real kidney shaker
LMAO
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I think I’ll laminate a couple photos of those signs and post them in the kid’s rooms :o)
What were you thinking?
You know how much a sign like that costs?
You could throw a real nice bbq and pool party
The Ole Days
Langhorne Speedway
Langhorne Speedway, Langhorne, Pa.
Like Pocono, Langhorne was located in the Keystone State, but this was certainly no triangle. The one-mile dirt track located just outside of Philadelphia was a perfectly round circle. Not oval... circle. No straights. Just continuous turns for 150 and sometimes 250 laps.
Think about how dizzy that would make you!
The first race run at the facility was a National Championship Stock Car Circuit (a forerunner to NASCAR) race in 1947, with Bob Flock taking home the checkered flag.
The track had two nicknames: “The Big Left Turn” and “The Track That Ate The Heroes.” Built on swampland, underground creeks kept the surface constantly wet. When temperatures rose each summer, that mud dried up and developed huge canyon-like cracks. To make matters worse, just past the start-finish line, the track took a steep downhill route, known among drivers as “Puke Alley”. NASCAR left after racing there from 1949 to 1957.
Stock car and Indy Car drivers alike started skipping Langhorne due to safety concerns, which actually got worse after the track was paved in 1965. Sadly, the track became known as one of the more dangerous tracks in the motorsports circle. Larry Mann, Frank Arford, John McVitty, Joe Russo, Mike Nazaruk, and Jimmy Bryan were all killed racing at this track.
But don’t bother going out looking for the strangest track in NASCAR history when heading up to Pocono. Langhorne was razed in 1971 to make room for a shopping mall.
that steep downhill run sounds fun..
I always got car sick as a kid unless I was driving.
They’re probably made in China, and distributed here by several layers of unions.
They said it was last paved in 1978. I’m surprised they don’t repave it more often than that.
1/4 mile stretch right around the corner from me has been getting resurfaced for FOUR months now. Someone keeps knocking that sign into people’s front yards.
I think I read somewhere between 1,100 to 1,200 but I could be off a bit or more.. they aren’t cheap..
>>>>>>Hangs head in shame.
If they called the race now I would get 7 - 11 - 18 - 20
I suspect that’s as good as I’ll get if they race the 200 laps
the pup is getting fidgety, time for a quick walk.. hope they get it going soon.
I got lost on the SI site, but am back now.
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