Chuckman Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Does anyone know whats going on I have seen people cleaning up,putting in new electrical lines etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTR73 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 when's the last time you've seen them cleaning up? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 I was by there last week and it looked abandoned and overgrown as usual... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTR73 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 yea i passed by a couple day's ago and saw the same ole run down Longhorn chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fast18 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Why bring up Longhorn ? It brings tears to my eyes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyRodriguez Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 I think the parking lot was cut at some point but everything else looks really brushy. I think they are doing some work on 183 or 812 ... , TXDOT project maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckman Posted January 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 There were some guys working on the lights when I went buy today. I miss it to Mickey don't make me tear up.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 sure they werent stealing them(the lights)-lol-to put em on EBAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fast18 Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 I,m pretty sure thats the only thing out there that's worth anything these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 never know mickey=i might have to go get me a piece of history myself to keep for the memories(a sign or something from the ole longhorn)in the middle of the nite-heheheheheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fast18 Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Just got back from a trip out east of town and drove by Longhorn...looks like some of the lights are missing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 I give up. What would be good about Longhorn reopening? We'd split the cars and the crowd between Thunder Hill and Longhorn (regardless of whether or not one of them ran on Friday or Sunday), and this would be good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fast18 Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 TQ , nothing would be good about it reopening....still it is sad to see it like it is now. Quite a few people got to go there as kids and then later started racing there (like myself). I still have a bunch of old tapes in storage from there. I know it's not going to ever open and I am very thankful we have THR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Just some oldtimers being nostalgic...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 I turned my first (and last) pavement laps at Ricci Ware's Paramount Speedway (that's going back 30 years) and it is indeed sad to see the grand lady in such disrepair. Every now and then I ride by Pan American in San Antonio and Longhorn in Austin just out of curiosity. Get a lump in the throat every time. The amazing thing about Pan Am is that you could still race there except for the ditches they cut through the track to stop the impromtu late-nite racing that was taking place years after Ricci had shut the place down. And that little leak that used to ooze water on the front straight is still leaking. Nick Holt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 hey mickey-what to buy one-heheheheheh-i 'm kidding- i just got back from working the dragstrip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Hey, speaking of Longhorn, I recently came across an old first turn "action" shot at longhorn (speed-o-rama) that had been stashed away in my late parent's house for over 35 years. The shot is of four of the "T-bucket" type super-modifieds they raced then. Man, what a lot of history in this one shot! Does anyone out there know where I could come up with more of these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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