Peach Bowl Speedway

[ancrdave]

Here's a couple of cool old shots from Peach Bowl Speedway located in downtown Atlanta, GA... Awesome shots and I love the guy smiling in the picture of the coupe... Can't see that today with full-face helmets etc.

When I lived in Atlanta (1970-71), I used to WALK to the track from where I lived on the north side of downtown... They ran NASCAR LMS and a Cadet class on Saturday nights just before the track closed for good... It was one-quarter mile and almost a perfect circle rather than an oval... Several of the top NASCAR guys raced there looking for points or just to have fun... One night the show got rained out and I was soaking wet walking back to my apartment... Bobby Allison stopped because he recognized me as someone he had chatted with in the pits and gave me a ride home...

[chassisdude]

Here's a couple of cool old shots from Peach Bowl Speedway located in downtown Atlanta, GA... Awesome shots and I love the guy smiling in the picture of the coupe... Can't see that today with full-face helmets etc.

When I lived in Atlanta (1970-71), I used to WALK to the track from where I lived on the north side of downtown... They ran NASCAR LMS and a Cadet class on Saturday nights just before the track closed for good... It was one-quarter mile and almost a perfect circle rather than an oval... Several of the top NASCAR guys raced there looking for points or just to have fun... One night the show got rained out and I was soaking wet walking back to my apartment... Bobby Allison stopped because he recognized me as someone he had chatted with in the pits and gave me a ride home...

Wow look at the stands the track was standing room only, some body tell me what happened to our sport?? I love racing and I'm afraid ir is a dieing sport

[fred23]

Anybody could build one of those in their garage for next to nothing and race......plus most people were gear heads back then because there wasn't much else to do......not much TV, no video games, no 24 plex theaters etc...etc...

Now you need 10K to build a competitive super stock........and everything is store bought.........plus, I bet the purse was damn near what it still is today

[egspeedway]

Once again we are dazzled by fantastic pictures from the past. This would make a wonderful addition to the page as a daily regular feature. Thanks!! I attended Peach Bowl in 1968 and the place was every bit as crowded as in Dave's pictures. It was so confined it felt like the smallest track I had ever seen. I suspect Bowman Gray is quite similar. T.C. Hunt was racing the night I was there and I believe he was one of the regulars.