2014 Silver Spring Speedway Ghost Track Reunion in Pennsylvania Event Photos

The 3/8th mile banked clay Silver Spring Speedway oval off Carlisle Pike near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania once staged exciting stock car and sprint car races. I was fortunate back in the early 90s to have my old friend, Frank Buhrman in Carroll Valley, Pennsylvania (near Gettsyburg) take me to back-to-back nights of racing at the fabled Williams Grove and Silver Spring ovals . While Williams Grove continues to operate, Silver Spring is now the site of a shopping center.

Fortunately, for the still living former competitors, families, officials and fans of Silver Spring Speedway , an annual reunion and fish fry in its memory is held at the Latimore Valley Fairgrounds in York Springs, Pennsylvania, home of the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing . Our RR members JAck Redd , Wally Bell and Ray Lamm are very familiar with this site.

Earlier this week, I got the e-mail below from friend, Frank notifying that the annual Silver Spring Speedway ghost track reunion and Gary Wolford Fish Fry had been staged this past Sunday. The reunion features a "BLINDFOLD" race!

  Went to the Gary Wolford Fish Fry and Silver Spring Speedway Reunion  Sunday at Latimore Valley. It was cold, and the blindfold race wasn't  quite as raucous as last year, but it was still great fun. I took some 
 pix of the auction for them (an autographed Chris Economaki book 
 brought over $200, and Wolford donated one of his own trophies, which 
 also created some spirited bidding. Once again the race winner was 
 disqualified - he removed his blindfold - and they tore up a little 
 bit of the track fence, but everybody seemed to love the whole thing. 
 Wish you could get to one of these.

 Attached some pix and have many more. You're welcome to share them 
 with the Racers Reunion folks if you think they'd like them.
  

Below is a photo of fish fry organizer, Gary Wolford competing at Silver Spring from the SHRED Racing.com site:

Photos below were taken by Frank of the BLINDFOLD race Sunday.

lol...looked like the majority of my races. Fence ramming, Fender rubbing, cooking and eating....Seems everyone had a great time....

An additional note from Frank regarding Latimore Valley Fairgrounds and the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing :

Might let the folks know that the Latimore
Valley Fair is June 27-29 (and I'll be involved, although that's
hardly the reason they should come) with tons of antique race cars,
and track time (cruising, not racing) on Saturday. PLUS, the restored
fairgrounds track is within half an hour of Williams Grove, Lincoln,
Susquehanna and Trail-Way Speedways, so there's lots of racing to see
if you want to do an overnight or two. See www.emmr.org for details of
the fair and the various track websites for what they're doing. The
museum itself is a must-see, too.

www.emmr.org