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Gone but certainly not forgotten. Back in the good old days, DKP hosted a number of Drag Days at the track. These usually included a nice, casual, cruise down Interstate 5 to Palomar Airport Rd (read high speed hare and hound here) where we would have breakfast at the Denny's Restaurant. After eating, it was out to the parking lot to remove mufflers and install stingers for the ten mile "drive" to the track...  |
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« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2007, 21:18:49 pm » |
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Standing at the finish line...
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« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2007, 21:22:11 pm » |
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Very cool story Sarge, love the part about puting on the stinger  I have goosebumps  |
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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2007, 21:23:23 pm » |
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Time slips at the "Sweat Box"...
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2007, 21:26:59 pm » |
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when i said i loved that track (only from seeing pics and vids, never been there) a lot of people called me nuts. it smells like urine, it was a dump, blah, blah, blah IT WAS A COOL RACETRACK nah! |
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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2007, 21:30:25 pm » |
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It reminds me about the track at gardermoen  The facility is sorta "basic" Really cool pics. |
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« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2007, 21:34:38 pm » |
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It reminds me about the track at gardermoen The facility is sorta "basic" Really cool pics. "sorta basic"....too bad I've no pics of the "lovely" restrooms   |
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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2007, 21:35:23 pm » |
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Time slips at the "Sweat Box"...
did you have a cellphone back then??? |
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« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2007, 21:41:07 pm » |
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Time slips at the "Sweat Box"...
did you have a cellphone back then??? Naw...two tin cans and a quarter mile of wire |
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« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2007, 21:42:46 pm » |
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Check out the large crowd in the stands...
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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2007, 21:42:53 pm » |
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"sorta basic"....too bad I've no pics of the "lovely" restrooms Roll Eyes Shocked My wife didn't think too much of the restrooms last time we were there. The first time I was there was for the US GP of motocross in 1973. At that time we parked our van on the drag strip. Everything was pretty clean then. |
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« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2007, 21:46:32 pm » |
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Check out the large crowd in the stands...
yeah callooks haydays... |
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2007, 23:05:17 pm » |
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Check out the large crowd in the stands...
You can just feel the atmosphere on that pic, must have been great! |
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2007, 23:17:28 pm » |
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Keep the old pix coming Sarge , I just love em |
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2007, 23:49:54 pm » |
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Underdog! |
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« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2007, 00:10:01 am » |
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awesome collection of photos, Sarge. What year are they from?
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« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2007, 00:23:36 am » |
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awesome collection of photos, Sarge. What year are they from?
Thanks Jim and also thanks to Fabs for helping with my crappy scan job...pics are from 1972 I believe. Wish I'd had a digital camera back then! |
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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2007, 00:26:21 am » |
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awesome collection of photos, Sarge. What year are they from?
Thanks Jim and also thanks to Fabs for helping with my crappy scan job...pics are from 1972 I believe. Wish I'd had a digital camera back then! probably would have been too big to fit in those buses!!! Univac Digi-Pic |
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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2007, 00:50:27 am » |
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Cool photos!
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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2007, 00:54:02 am » |
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Cool photos!
--louis
Thanks, Louis! |
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« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2007, 02:19:55 am » |
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Wish I'd have made it there before too late. I was in Carlsbad last year, and saw Palomar Airport Road. Wanted to keep going, but the wife wanted lunch!
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« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2007, 02:30:28 am » |
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Underdog! what the f..k ,why i was born here in belgium in 74 and not in socal in 55 that was the place that i want to know underdog II rocks thanks for the pict sarge  fabs |
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« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2007, 02:32:11 am » |
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awesome collection of photos, Sarge. What year are they from?
Thanks Jim and also thanks to Fabs for helping with my crappy scan job...pics are from 1972 I believe. Wish I'd had a digital camera back then! correct 72 , it's written on the side of the picture you sent me |
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« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2007, 04:38:02 am » |
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Nice pics. Don't hesitate to ad more I noticed that their is someone hidden in the "Sweat Box" (3rd picture). Don't know what he was doing with his finger in the air ?  yeah what's with all those guys and their rude gestures? So much for my impression that DKP 1 was a bunch of clean-cut, polite, goody boys.... Bunch o' punks. |
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« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2007, 06:49:35 am » |
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Great pics Sarge. Keep them coming. Any other tracks the DKP visited often?
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« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2007, 07:32:41 am » |
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Sarge, thanks for all these great pictures! I always get goosebumps when I see such old stuff. I think these "amateur"-photographs carry a lot of the atmosphere back then (I was born in '72, wrong continent...) I know that Andi/DFL has a video of the Carlsbad restroom... Maybe he can post it here... Saludos, Ole |
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« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2007, 14:36:37 pm » |
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Super nice stuff this Sarge, we live for this stuff here on the Lounge!
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« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2007, 17:48:10 pm » |
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