Chicago: Once A Funny Car Heaven (1 Viewer)

[Bobby Bennett]

ENCORE FEATURE: CHICAGO - ONCE A FUNNY CAR HEAVEN!

By a man who experienced it, Jon Asher.

 

[Bill]

I worked for the Gold Agency as a Tech Inspector and I can tell you it wasn't unusual to have 40 Funny cars and 50 Pro Stocks at US 30 and about half that number at Oswego.

 

[PiPPi]

Cool thing is that you can still see the painted AHRA-shield in Google Earth/Maps (there's an "on-the-ground-picture" of it in Ashers article).

It used to be a sharper image in Google but zoom in on Google Maps and you can still make it out.

Good article on what US 30 looked like in 2001 at Lost Indiana: US 30 Drag Strip , don't miss the radio commercial at the bottom.

This is definitely one of the strips I'd have on the itinerary for a US road trip based on visiting old ghost tracks all across the country.

Regards
PiPPi
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