Hefty

Many thanks Oldtimer! Its old photos and movies like these that are priceless to a dying culture. I don't mind the teenagers having some fun in the snow either! The Cortina at the end of that film looks very similar to a car I saw at the Groesbeck Grand Prix in 2020. See photo attached. I don't think its the same car but it sure has a canny resemblance to it. The Green Valley Racing Association's activities went beyond their local track also - from 1974 to 1978 they sanctioned the River City Road Races in Austin in conjunction with the Texas Spokes and Austin Aqua Festival. Thanks for sharing! Groesbeck number 59 Cortina.pdf

Thanks for the posts - any idea what year this may have occurred in? Trying to put together a timeline of these 'street races'. I thought they were only in the late 7970's but now I'm hearing they started as early as the 1960's and may have continued into the 1980's. Can't seem to find any definitive history on them.

The ones I know of were called the River City Road Races. Sponsored by the Texas Spokes and sanctioned by the Green Valley Racing Association (out of Dallas) from 1974 to 1978. It was run on parts of Barton Springs Road, Riverside, and others around the Palmer Events Center. What do you remember from the earlier years?

I know this site is mostly about Stock, Sprint, and Drag racing, but would anyone like to contribute stories about Sports Car racing in Texas? The SCCA had some memorable events in Texas, particularly the National Championship races at Bergstrom Air Force Base in 1953 and 1954. The Greenhill Racing Association (out of Dallas) hosted the Capitol City Road Races as part of the Austin Aqua Festival events in the late 1970's. Texas Spokes Sports Car Club (celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year), ran a Hill Climb at the foot of Mansfield Dam up to 1980, and TWS hosted its share of Can-Am and IMSA races as well. I raced Autocross with Texas Spokes from 1981 through 1984 and am now part of an SCCA group compiling the history of racing (in Central Texas mostly) for possible publication. Please share you stories, photos, etc. if you can.