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Kansas City International Raceway was a drag-racing track in Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1967, and featured two asphalt lanes, and seating for over a thousand people. It hosted its last race on November 27, 2011. The 93 acre property was purchased by the city of Kansas City, Missouri to build what became Little Blue Valley Park. [1]
Note cars by track for scale Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel , which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas , United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations.
The car’s last year, 1977, sales bottomed out at 98,000. Ryan Tompkins, Hunt Midwest’s director of sales and leasing, couldn’t speak to whether the cars that once filled their caves were ...
By the mid 1950s, his drag race cars were winning consistently at NHRA's events all over the country and in 1955, he drove to the first-ever NHRA C/Gas national title in Great Bend, Kansas. In 1957, Johansen campaigned two stock cars on the NASCAR circuit which were driven by Marshall Sargent and Rex White. Those cars finished seventh and ninth ...
Dick Cadwalader is a pioneering American gasser drag racer. [1] He was from Chalfont, Pennsylvania. [2] Driving an Oldsmobile-powered 1933 Ford, Cadwalader won NHRA's first ever A/G national title, at Great Bend, Kansas, in 1955. He recorded a speed of 96.87 mph (155.90 km/h). [3] (His elapsed time was not recorded or has not been preserved.)
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The car is a Mustang called "Old Crow" to honor Brig. Gen. Bud Anderson, who flew four different P-51 Mustang airplanes in World War II, three of which were named Old Crow. "Dad" is Jack Roush ...
When it opened in 1989, [1] Heartland Motorsports Park was the first new auto racing facility to be built in the United States for 20 years. Its facilities include a road-race course with 4 possible configurations (ranging from 1.8 to 2.5 miles or 2.9 to 4.0 kilometres in length), a 3 ⁄ 8 mi (0.6 km) clay oval, off-road course and a 1 ⁄ 4 mi (0.4 km) drag strip.