OK...weigh in on this....

[gogame]

strickly from track layout and ability to really race i like nss. i raced that track when it was first turned to asphalt in the 60's and still love racing there. m.p.

[flvideo]

Yeah Matt Saramana was what addicted me. Harold Hall took me and a bunch of neighborhood kids to Saramana in feb or march 1953. I was 9 years old and Emil Reutiman was my hero. All week long I played I was emil in the pastures and by ways Of Simmons av in Fruitville, looking firward to the next week when I'd gather some new fuel for play. Desoto was another good time. I have some fond memories of it too. I think I went there the first time in 1974 or 5. There Lucky Brown was the hero of the day. I new him from the old track too. Man its been a long time. I guess I'll roll my wheel chair down for lunch here in the old folks home..... Bob...

[Don Nerone]

Golden Gate then Sarama.
The Gate was fun to drive and if you had any tallent you could get it done.
the best raceing i ever saw was in the mid 70s. Alburndale speedway super 6 feature .They had 24 cars every week and ran side by side most of the 25laps. They were the stars for me. Have run all of them and the most fun was eastbay. I didnt like it but it was a hoot.(recked in every dirt race i drove)


Don62

[flvideo]

The Gate was good but I wasn't able to go there enough to have the memories I had at the other tracks. To me making the memories is more important than who's legal and who ain't and who won and who lost. If I had fun at a race track that ,made memories. Win lose or crash, it was all fun. Well one reason for that wa when I wrecked I'd go see Brown at the junk yard and ask him real nice with my puppy dog eyes and he'd give me what I needed. I just had to put in a few hours taking parts off wrecks for him. Man those were the days. What was the mame of that track at the fairgrounds in Tampa where they made a flat track in a cow pastgure I think. I am thinking that was the first place I saw Gordon Soley in person. I saw him on TV at the wrestleing matches. Trusty Rusty You sure know how to spark a fellows memory. Bob....

[dibbs7j]

racetracks

back when i was a kid the florida state fair grounds(dirt). and now vsp or ocala

[dibbs7j]

just a few pic's

fair grounds early 80's buzzie reutimann

[Don Nerone]

hey bob you know brownie took me to my first race. I think i was 12 and you are so old you might have been racing there then.
Billy Gill and Ray Bontrager what a show.



don62

[flvideo]

could be. I was so far in the back I couldn't even see the leaders. Browny was a good ole guy. I have some really good memories of him. Do you remember Fred Hawkins when ne had a affro hair doo and he was skinny? Lydecker phillpot that relal tall guy that had a trucking business. I can't remember, I think I just remembered. Was it huffstetler? He was something at Desoto when I went there first too. Maybe flagman? I saw billy Gill at Harold Halls funeral he really looks good. Bob...

[Hired Gun]

OSW by far smooth,fast. Can run four wide, plenty of passing room. and like Boneman said FASCAR USE THE FIGURE EIGHT!!, not just for parking the wrecker And not to Metion we have the BIGGEST BADDEST and FASTEST School bus Figure racing Anywhere,

p.s.....Cant leave out New Symrna because your flying!!! Nearly 90mph in a Stricty Stock!

[flvideo]

Gun have you seen the buses at Desoto or Citrus. They are pretty quick although I have never been at OSW when they had the buses racing. Bob...

[Trash Inturn4]

considering i grew up in the Tampa Bay area they would be

Dirt - Eastbay, but they sure haul the mail at Volusia
Asphalt- Citrus County
Sprint Cars - Desoto
Long Gone- Golden Gate
Miss the most- Sunshine Speedway, sitting with the "TRASH IN TURN FOUR"

[Rusty the 50/50 Guy]

Winger....the criteria would be....let's say you were gonna put on a show...a really really phenomenal show...what track would you chose to have it at! What track is racey etc etc

or if you won the lotto which one would you buy...if you were so inclined..or demented LOL

[Hired Gun]

Yeah and we have brought our Buses to both of those tracks, unfortunately for me my partner/cousin won both, when I had problems. The other tracks are not as good for mostly one reason...They cant carry the speed that you can at Orlando. Ive checked the speedo a few time and we can do about 55 mph, if you got a good run down hill maybe 60-65. Dont sound fast fast to most but remember a School bus weighs 10 to 15,000 lbs

[flvideo]

Ha ha you've got me there. I don't think citrus or Desoto approach those speeds with the buses. Desoto had the fastest figure eight track any where when the pro Figure eights ran there in the 80's. I have no idea of their speed though.

[95 Chilll]

NSS love the speed