Indoor Drag Racing International Amphitheater

**kwhizz** · #1 10-17-2010, 03:11 PM

http://www.thecamarosite.com/forums/...=2385#post2385

Ken

flyingn · #2 10-17-2010, 04:06 PM

wow!! Very neat.... Wonder how far the shut down area was ?? lol

**Tenney** · #3 10-17-2010, 04:10 PM

Nice! Championship-level foreground 'hive in pic. 3 ...

**CC Rider** · #4 10-17-2010, 04:49 PM

Neat stuff Ken! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif[/img]

Don_Lightfoot · #5 10-17-2010, 05:18 PM

WOW! Some terrific pictures. Never heard of this until just now. The real "booming" period of drag racing in 1962/63 with all the big cars. Could the following picture possibly be a Max Wedge <span style="font-weight: bold">vs</span> an SD?

Great stuff, thanks Ken.

**mockingbird812** · #6 10-17-2010, 05:47 PM

That looks to be a '63 Dodge 330 sedan (steel front end) in the far lane with an "A/S" which would most likely indicate a Max Wedge stick from that era.

My '62 Plymouth S/S has raced at the Amphitheatre. Concrete pillars in close proximity to the race track? What could go wrong [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]?

Cool stuff. Thanks! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/

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<span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 17pt">Looking closer, there appears to be an "A" as in A/S<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">A</span></span></span> on the window. That makes sense as the Poncho is definitiely an auto tranny. So the venerable 727 3 speed HD push button auto!</span>
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StealthBird · #7 10-17-2010, 06:52 PM

I have a few more pics I've accumulated over the years. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

StealthBird · #8 10-17-2010, 07:03 PM

I know this was 1/8 mile racing, and somewhere I have all the results of the Dec. 1962 event, with makes/models/et/etc. Just can't find it on my PC right now....still looking....

BlownAway · #9 10-24-2011, 02:55 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That looks to be a '63 Dodge 330 sedan (steel front end) in the far lane with an "A/S" which would most likely indicate a Max Wedge stick from that era.

My '62 Plymouth S/S has raced at the Amphitheatre. Concrete pillars in close proximity to the race track? What could go wrong [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]?

Cool stuff. Thanks! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/

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<span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 17pt">Looking closer, there appears to be an "A" as in A/S<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">A</span></span></span> on the window. That makes sense as the Poncho is definitiely an auto tranny. So the venerable 727 3 speed HD push button auto!</span>
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that Dodge is the very same one thats sitting in my garage..was know as "TAMELESS"...was in fact a 426 StageII w/3spd on the floor..was ordered new from GrandSpaulding Dodge or better known as Mr Norms...was only beaten once and that was narrowly by a 4dr 64 Dodge with the new 4spd and super rare HEMI...

as it sits now whole I am back to work on him..

**markjohnson** · #10 10-18-2010, 09:20 AM

Actually it was even shorter than an 1/8 mile. I wanna say it was something like only 440 feet compared to an 1/8 mile being 660 ft. Now these factory Super Stocks being probably 12-13 second cars in the 1/4 were probably only hitting about 75-80 MPH through the lights. The open-header'ed cars had to be unbearably loud! I would have loved to have suffered most of my hearing loss at that particular venue.