I love this site for many reasons, but at the top of the list is for the chance to go back in my memory each time I see some of the great phoptos that so many of you post. My favorite era is the early to mid 70's, the era where the big cars roared and the engines shrunk. When Chevy came back and AMC came in. This is around the same time where, in my mind, NASCAR racing took a huge step forward and the sport began it's climb into notoriety. The cars were changing slowly from "Stock Cars" to purpose built Race Cars and the competition was increasing as the sport became more noticed. The drivers were still heros to many and the sponsors were entering the sport. The sport had it all!Back then I was a loyal follower of The King and proudly showed it in every sport I played, wearing my own #43. I lived for each race and planned my teen aged schedule around the radio broadcast of each race and the occasional snippit offered by Wide World of Sports. My favorite track was Charlotte Motor Speedway and it was the closest to my home, but Darlinton was a close second. In my youth I loved to hear the races from Daytona and Talladega, after all racing was about speed and there was none faster. Ontario was cool. I didn't care much for Martinsville, N. Wilkesbors and Bristol due to the size of the tracks and the many wrecks that accured in each race. But by far the road course at Riverside was the one track I hated!!! I didn't understand why the sport I loved went all the way to Riverside to start the season each year, or why do these big cars tried to put on a race on such a track.I'm one month shy of 50 now, and my opinions have changed over the years. Today I'm led by faith and the love and joy of my family. Racing is still something I enjoy and I still attend from time to time. I watch the TV broadcast when I don't have more important issues to deal with, but I find that this is a great time to take a nap. Now I don't care much for Daytona or Talladega due to the style of racing that occurs there now and I still don't care for the smaller tracks due to the numbers of cautions that prevent good racing. But one thing has changed... I miss Riverside. I can't explain it and I don't understand it, but I long to see the racing there again. I noticed several new pictures added to the stock car pages and many of them were from Riverside and I noticed that long lost feeling in the pit of my stomach as I clicked on each picture. That same feeling I had as a youth when I would attend or listen to the races. This is why I love this site, for that feeling.Riverside is now gone, covered by a mall and subdivisions and it has been replaced with Infinion and Watkins Glen. It's not the same. Riverside can not be replaced, in my opinion, by either track. When I think of Riverside my mind is flooded with images of the great racing, turn 2, the esses up to turn 6, the long backstretch and the dive into turn 9, and the run to the line. WOW what a track. Looking back I loved the racing, but more than that, I loved the drivers and teams that did battle there. Petty, Pearson, Allison, and later Waltrip, Elliott and Richmond. This is what I miss. Gone...How have your opinions changed? Tracks, drivers, teams. Are you a different fan today than back in your favoite era? Share.Thanks all for the pictures and the memories,Bumpertag in S. Carolina