75-80 dragway....
01-09-2009, 02:47 PM
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aight i went by there today and there were construction workers it looked like grading the pit area in the back field, they were taking dirt to the other side of the track. there was no one there to talk to, i took some pictures ill post them up a lil later.
i think bill is holding out on us, hes being mean
i think bill is holding out on us, hes being mean
01-09-2009, 05:05 PM
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Yeh I rode by there too and it looks like they were near where tech was. There was a KW Miller truck there, a rollback, and some other machinery. Hopefully there digging a hole for a fuel tank 
01-09-2009, 06:58 PM
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ahhh good thinking. i didnt even think about that. well.... i wont be out that way for about a week so if anyone sees more construction vehicals ill go up and talk to some one.
i was goin to today but the only people i seen were in the bob cats and combime looking thing. i took some pics, but iam beat so they will go up tommorow.
o and ?????? WHEN 75-80 WAS OPEN WERENT THE FUEL TANKS ABOVE GROUND? i cannot remember , iam pretty sure they were above ground.
i was goin to today but the only people i seen were in the bob cats and combime looking thing. i took some pics, but iam beat so they will go up tommorow.
o and ?????? WHEN 75-80 WAS OPEN WERENT THE FUEL TANKS ABOVE GROUND? i cannot remember , iam pretty sure they were above ground.
01-10-2009, 02:31 PM
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Well I have some good news, I just got off the phone with a good friend who told Me 75&80 will be re-opening this spring, friday and sat. nights as an outlaw track. He said his dad personally spoke with bill earlier today.
01-10-2009, 03:06 PM
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Well thats really good news. Best news ive heard in a while. But let me ask this, what do you mean by outlaw track? Are they still gonna have friday night test and tune where everybody can run?
01-12-2009, 12:57 AM
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i read this thread last week and happened to have to go to Hagerstown to check out a car .I rode out there and checked out whats left of the track last friday , looks like they just locked the gate in 05' and never looked back . It was some kind of machinery in the feild diggin in the dirt .........Wasnt that where the show Motorweek use to test there cars at ?
01-12-2009, 07:34 PM
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A friend of mine caught the new owner at the track today and it seems as though it will re open. I am getting this second hand, but it sounds like a lot of new items are coming to the old track.
01-12-2009, 09:12 PM
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The track was NEVER sold to anyone. The deal did not go through. As for the excavation you are seeing. It is K.W. Miller screening dirt to use for fill on some of their const. sites.
Bill told people last Nov. that he would not reopen it or lease it to anyone. He reiterated that at a function I was at in December. I heard it from his own mouth. I doubt much has changed his mind between then and now. There are tons of people that would like to see it reopened. I just don't see it happening
Bill told people last Nov. that he would not reopen it or lease it to anyone. He reiterated that at a function I was at in December. I heard it from his own mouth. I doubt much has changed his mind between then and now. There are tons of people that would like to see it reopened. I just don't see it happening
01-12-2009, 10:00 PM
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One other thing you guys need to consider. If there is a new owner all of this has to go in front of the Frederick County Council and permitting deptartments. There is NO WAY that will happen, with being required to have at least 1 public hearing before giving them a permit to reopen as a dragstrip. Frederick county was waiting for the day the track closed. The people in the surrounding houses arent going to let it reopen. The only way the track could reopen that quickly would be if Bill leased it to someone with him remaining as the owner. I would love to know who all these different people are talking to when they say they "talked to Bill" There is also suppossed to be a mixed adult retirement facility being built just up the road. do you really think they are going to allow the track to reopen knowing what is coming? I hate to be a stick in the mud, just looking at reality.
01-12-2009, 10:35 PM
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whos your source 2cylguy? just wondering. out all of the old timers i have talked to, one wich has known bill for over 45 years and drives a very familiar brown 70 chevelle told me it was sold. he has no reason to lie to me. iam gonna get him to call bill, even though bill has nothing to do with it. if not, i guess we will wait and see.....