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Thanks Randy, Much better! Always enjoy watching Meyer races.

Thanks Danny, I hope you get those to post. We always like more pics.

Wish I had been there.......................

I don't think there is any prerequisite that it has to make sense to be in the racing business!!

And here he is!!!

Were these the forerunners of the TQs?

Good catch Larry. I guess the site considered Midgets a weekly event. I think I went to the ARCA race and the Studebaker may have been the one they took to Daytona, that's another story.......

Race results at Meyer Speedway other than weekly local events. October 11, 1959 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC Sprint Car (Midwest) A.J. Foyt November 22, 1959 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC Midget Gene Force December 6, 1959 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC/ARCA Stock Car Harold Smith March 20, 1960 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC Sprint Car (Midwest) Don Branson April 10, 1960 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC Midget Dale Swaim October 23, 1960 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX USAC Sprint Car (Midwest) Parnelli Jones May 27, 1961 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX IMCA Sprint Car Gordon Woolley March 18, 1962 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX ARCA Stock Car Ernie Derr March 22, 1964 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX ARCA Stock Car Ernie Derr March 14, 1965 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX ARCA Stock Car Jack Bowsher March 21, 1965 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX ARCA Stock Car Jack Bowsher March 27, 1966 Houston 200 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX ARCA Stock Car Iggy Katona June 23, 1971 Space City 300 Joseph F. Meyer Speedway, Houston, TX NASCAR Winston Cup Bobby Allison

A genuine Flat Tail!!!

I bet Charles Ray still has that shirt, and dang it, He can still put it on!

Thanks Mark, Wish I could still get into those clothes..........

LIBERTY BELL 300!!!!! HAPPY 4th TO EVERYONE!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!

Well, This is the day we should be running the "Liberty Bell 300". Or maybe next Saturday. Our track is gone and most of the cars. Another fine mess! Maybe some of the Meyer family will see our rantings and rebuild the track as a tribute to "Mr. Joe". It could be a museum and have occasional nostalgia races. Oh well, I would show up and I have a feeling a lot of you would too.........................

Just the hot dogs...............................

Changing gears again. Does anyone remember the names of the ladies that worked the pit concession stand. I think it was a lady and her daughter. Anyway they were always very nice to us no matter what kind of crappy mood we were in. Also the hot dogs were great!!!

Those cars look like a handfull...........................

Just like the big guys.................................

If I remember right, catchin' a man is one thing, passing him is somthing else................................

That's about the size of it

That's just A.J.

Parnelli was hard to beat in that 51 car. The Fike Plumbing Special. A Chevy powered car that drove by the Offys. I know this, when you sat in that car Mark, you were sitting in a piece of racing history. that car ran all over the country.

And Parnelli nearly caught him. Needed 2 more laps. That was a good race. Billy Griswold was there driving an Olds powered Sprinter.

Yes but around 1960, Mr. Meyer repaved the track. He said the surface they had put on originally would eat the tires off of a midget in less than 10 laps. I stopped by there when the repaving was being done. I knew the track was new and didn't understand why they were doing the work. I asked Mr. Meyer about it and he explained the whole thing. If you remember where the pit gate was, That's where we had our conversations. While talking, Mr.Meyer would look out over that track In what I would describe as love, admiration, like it was his life.

Here's an aerial photo of Meyer Speedway in 1958. I think this was before Mr. Meyer had it repaved. http://www.historicaerials.com/default.aspx?poi=6302

Great pics! I can't I.D. that engine. May be one of the outboards. Fine looking car.