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... two other drivers who raced those cars back then ..doug mcbee and david evans ..doug is still around running that beach to bay run ..and sadly david passed away ..eric williams went north and lost track of where he is ..heard storys ..

David Evans, is this the same David Evans that was into racign go carts in the mid 90's out in Odem?

What year did Riverside close down officially? Just curious as I was still pretty young. Back then my Dad helped out with the cars for the Vannoy's out there, Dewayne and Freddy. Ran em there, and the at CC speedway when Riverside closed, and up in Goliad on occasion. I remember a black and yellow 84 car (would have been a bomber), and also a white cougar )think it was 13)..

I got tons of pics from then but this summer and my business has gotten crazy. I have even had to back off of racing some due to no time to work on it hardly. But I promise with alittle extra time I will get some posted.

Fully understand that! Look forward to seeing em.

I will find a way but I honestly have 1000's of pics from Riverside and CC Speedway from 80's. Lots of pics of Lawrence, Jerry Edwards, Rick Rapp, Whitaker Sr. etc etc etc. My dad raced at both tracks alternating from year to year sometimes week to week. First time I put a helmet on was at Riverside when I was 13 my dad slipped me into several demo derbys. Actually won one of them but got dq'ed because my spare tire was still in trunk! After the death of Sonny Brown I remember going to a drivers meeting that Jerry Edwards put together. All the drivers came together and paid $100 each to register so they could reopen the track. It was a true dirt track by all means. City Dump on one side, City Septic just down the street and the creek on the back straightaway smelt like septic runoff. I saw and cheered for some of the best drivers I have ever seen before at that place. Jerry Aylor, Lawrence, Bruce Sanders, Jerry Edwards, Steve Whitaker, George England, Johnny Unitas, Leroy Brooks, many others including watching the Texas Super Sprinters which I got to race in many many years later.

Were you able to get any of these uploaded??? I remember this track as a kid, and the cars that my dad worked on there for a few of his friends, had to have been mid to late 80's when they raced there. It was up until it finally shutdown (not sure what year that was.)