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Clubroom => Vintage Track => Topic started by: firko on December 12, 2011, 12:59:34 pm

Title: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: firko on December 12, 2011, 12:59:34 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5C1L5KVxVs&list=UU49sTDxLaHLhRugetgDppHw&feature=plcp&noredirect=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5C1L5KVxVs&list=UU49sTDxLaHLhRugetgDppHw&feature=plcp&noredirect=1)

Title: Re: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: Curly3 on December 12, 2011, 05:14:59 pm

What a classic, Spruce Bruce & Bobby Boogalloo were only kids.
Funny seeing people trying to ride the fence on such a tiny track, all the dirt was out there from race one and it was deep.

Title: Re: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: number 87 on December 13, 2011, 10:05:08 am

Good footage . . pretty shit track (Ah the good ole days).

#87

Title: Re: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: firko on December 13, 2011, 12:19:38 pm

Who knows, I may be somewhere in the crowd in that Irwindale video. I was living an hour away at the time and often drove out for a look. The track was a part of the famous Irwindale drag strip complex, sadly now an industrial park. You're right 87, it was a shit track but the racing there, Ascot, San Bernardino and the tiny 180 yard Costa Mesa was always tight and a lot of fun. What the Yanks lost in sheer talent they made up for with enthusiasm and show biz pizazz.
Sadly, I had to stop going to the California speedway meetings because fans kept confusing me for Bruce Penhall...it was a bloody nightmare fighting off the chicks ::).

Title: Re: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: Curly3 on December 13, 2011, 12:50:43 pm

 :D

Title: Re: Irwindale California 1976
Post by: number 87 on December 14, 2011, 10:08:03 am

Firko, how could anyone confuse you and B Penhall, rumour has it that Penhall had a " very small bore and an equally short stroke" unlike the rumours about youself . . . . BIG FELLA!!