93 racer Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 I found this photo of a post card from Corpus Christi Speedway "The Finest Clay Track in the South" Anyone have any recollection of this or time period it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Looks like the dog race track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
93 racer Posted December 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 That's what I was thinking as well. In description it said auto racing so that's what got me curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
93 racer Posted December 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 The back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubblockerii Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Didn't they have a dirt track in Corpus called Riverside not sure when it was built but I remember my dad talking about when I was little early 80's Idk Maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.j.&s.racing Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Cc speedway started out as a dirt track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arob Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Wasn't that around 1945? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.j.&s.racing Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Carlock would know. Look at the address Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 yes 1945 .dirt ...my father in law use to sneak out there with his sears bought motor bike back when sears sold allstate bikes always wanted one growing up use to see em at sear on leopard street ..father in laws dad would have killed him if he had known ..see young ones even back then kids were sneaky ..ill ask him if the track looked like that in the forties .. looking at the outer road looks like the backside which was used as the pits ..turn one and two lights look close to where they were .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCloser Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 Kinda looks like Flato. Highway 44 is Agnes so it might be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 I mile out tells me city limits were somewhere around Baldwin and airport road .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poorboy Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 I say cover it with clay again and race. Much cheaper than asphalt. I mean the racing surface is cheaper, I wasn't making a reference to what a car or racing cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Showed my father in law this post today ..he would play on the track on his scooter as he called the bike back in 1948 he also remembers the go cart track being added which is still there .. ..he remembers a lot of the track as it was and thinks this is around 49 to 51 drawing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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