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Luza finished 17th on the lead lap.

The world has lost two of the greatest men I know this week. Lucian Wallace last Sunday, and Bill White today. Keep their loved ones in your thoughts and prayers,

Tentative date is May 23rd.

Keep Greg Davidson in your thoughts and prayers. He had to undergo amputation of his other leg yesterday. Will be in the hospital and rehab for awhile.

We only have one asphalt track; it is in Houston. Has Mike stated where he is actually located or where he is racing? 

Bruce’s list has not. I have a 20 year old draft copy, but there has been additions made. I have the locations of about thirty of them, based on  historical mapping and some word of mouth. Keep in mind back then there were tracks that only lasted a short while, as little as a few weeks. But they ranged in length from tight quarters to 2 miles. It also includes Motorcycle tracks, dragstrips, the odd road course.

Was going to be a 1.5 mile paved oval. Early 70’s time frame. They got the dirt work and one tunnel done before the guy holding the money ran off. It was never finished.  Was used for dove hunting for years. San Antonio and Bexar County has been home to over 40 racetracks over the years.  There have also been other startups like this one that never got finished.

Forgot to put that this is the 1979 Texas 400. D. Waltrip won it.

Lets take a look back at a great era of NASCAR racing. Look at not only the cars, but the lack of pit equipment, the haulers, the open trailers, and the independent drivers. 1979 Texas 400, won by Darrel Waltrip.

These pics courtesy of my late Father.

Happy Birthday Nick, although you probably wont remember it tomorrow......

Tom

Thoughts and prayers to Freddy Fryar who passed this morning. And Dorothy McCall who passed last night 

This night that Dave Despain was at the track doing a story on Neil Upchurch and the TIDA series. Apparently made quite an impression on him....Thankfully, all drivers came back to race again. 

Pavement Supers died out here in the 70’s, and they really only ran the Meyer Speedway in Houston, and various tracks in the southeast.

Raymond passed away due to his health issues. We lost a huge supporter of short track racing.

Page 1, rule 10 No titanium, Inconel, or other exotic metals in any way on the car.

Just reported Nasse D.Q. for unapproved brake parts.

More Derby success; Augie Grill won the Friday Modified race in John’s house BMF Chassis.

The Derby will run at 4PM tomorrow.

Augie also won in John Heil’s car.

All PRO Central sounds right for the Texas group.. I believe Leroy Farmer had a hand in promoting that. And, TIDA Late Models were not formed until 1988. The only race in 1988 in Corpus for the TIDA late models was won by Rick Rapp.

The race results for the two National tour ALL PRO races at CC Speedway and also the race held the next day at San Antonio can be found in this link:

ALL Pro results . Go down to the CC and SAS listings for the run downs. Races # 15,16, AND 17. Some of my narrative also came from a 1985  ALL PRO program that has brief recaps of the 1984 races.

As for the ALL PRO Central results, I have never seen them listed anywhere.

And txtom is a shortened version of a nickname I first got in the Military in the 80's. It started out as 'TexasTom" but i shortened it so i wouldn't  have to type so damn many letters. My real name is Tom Taylor, but most on here and at the tracks I venture to know me by texastom or txtom.

There are a lot of questions here, 

Lets start with the original post. The national All Pro tour ran two features on 4 August 1984. Gary Balough won the first one, and Freddy Fryar won the second one. Slick Yoemans was the pole starter for the first race. The top 6 finishers in the first race were inverted, putting Fryar on the pole for the second race.

 Then 99 of John Foster is not listed in the results of either race. Neither are the #2 of Trigg,#45 of Bob Bolin, #19 of Ronnie Whitmire, the 44 of John Talley, the #25, and Junior Robertson is not listed in either race result. 

A couple cars in those pictures are #58 Darrell Brown and #84 Chuck Johnson that were in the two races listed above. Also #1 is Don Wilson from Colorado.       

I am going to state that most of these pics are not the Southeast based ALL PRO series that ran on 4 August, but probably a race of the Texas wing of the All Pro Series that ran for about a year in this area.  Foster, Yoemans, Trigg, Robertson, Bolin, Greg Davidson and others were all regulars in the Texas based series.

On 7/29/2019 at 12:38 PM, Budman said:

Here Ya go Rodney/Russ …………..  A Pic of that Poster.  This is a recent reproduction of an old original poster found stuck up on a wall in an old shop in San Antonio.

TxTom could give you the details on it.  TxTom handed me this poster one night in the pits at THR several years ago. What good are these things if we can't share them with those interested in such stuff !  I hope the sizing works out.  If not, perhaps Nick can help. 

 

 

So Lee Machen had this poster in pretty sad shape. North Austin machinist extraordinaire Larry Schultz found someone in Austin that recreated it and made about 200 copies. The guy did in in the weathered style you see here.

Yes, Paul was Champion in 2001. Drove for Paul Cook Racing up in the Metroplex.

A little further on Nick's reply, many years back, one Carl Steven Berghman was stationed in San Antonio and assumed a false name so the Military would not find out he was racing the local track(s). You know him in racing history as “Bugsy Stevens” of Notheast Modified fame.

That was the only MRE car to make it to this area, and was the last Car Leroy Brooks drive.