Drag strip/Race track Dundee Illinois area - Page 2

DarrenX33 · #11 02-09-2006, 04:40 AM

Saint Charles. See you at the Sycamore show this year? Bunch of us went last year.

jeff morocco · #12 02-09-2006, 05:09 AM

yep, go every year. looking forward to meeting you. great people on this site !!!!!!

DarrenX33 · #13 02-09-2006, 05:20 AM

indeed it is a great show. it will be over 1000 cars for sure this year.

**Salvatore** · #14 02-09-2006, 06:23 AM

I'm coming!

HuggerX22 · #15 02-10-2006, 06:13 AM

To those that are interested . If you have Google Earth do a search of Algonquin,Il. Scroll slowly down till you get to 42 degrees 06'59.62 N and 88 degrees 18'12.00 W . You will see the over grown outline of the track and surrounding ground on left side of the aerial photo.
As a kid I remeber getting kicked out of there for illegal off roading.

jeff morocco · #16 02-11-2006, 12:30 AM

hey i got kicked out of there too. around 1984-85 . did you go down the long straight to where the bridge was washed out? thats a long way down !!!!!

**Salvatore** · #17 02-11-2006, 01:15 AM

Hey this strip must be close to Alan Bertagnoli's house. I wonder if his X77 car every hit that strip?

HuggerX22 · #18 02-11-2006, 01:56 AM

I was more like the summer of '77 after high school in a CJ-7 w/a 304-4sp and some long necks imported from Lake Geneva(legal at 18 back then). I remember a couple of cars in the bottom of the wash back then. The Monza turn at the north end of the front stretch was worth at try too.

DarrenX33 · #19 02-11-2006, 03:10 AM

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Sam your a Chicago suburb expert! You know this place pretty good for just one tour.

**kwhizz** · #20 02-12-2006, 08:43 AM

As my memory serves me......there were a couple of people involved with the Union Grove Drag Strip......Metzler and the Paul family.......in the middle 60's they split up and the Paul boys worked a deal to use the straight section of the Meadowdale road course as a Drag Strip.....It didn't last too long as the straight section was only a couple of hundred feet longer than the measured 1/4 mile.....soon after you went thru the lights the track went downhill, under a bridge and into a sweeping right hand curve.........kinda interesting for some of the fast cars of the time and you had to follow the road course back around to the Pits........

Ken