Carol, it may be because the link contains my fireefox browser name. I don't know.
Here are the search terms I used on my Google search that returned archived articles. Try just using them in a Google search and see if the results are better:
Saugus Speedway Steve Colbert Van Nuys
Carol, sorry you can't get the google link to work.
This Google search link will take you to some archived Saugus newspaper articles mentioning carol's brother, Steve Colbert.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Saugus+speedway+steve+colbert+van+nuys+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Beginning to think they might have mistakenly applied the B.S. test rather than the B.L. test, Bobby.
A miscue of "Staggering" proportions!
Just stumbled across this little note on a Dukes of Hazzard site:
Season 3 sees the Dukes head for Cedar City Fairgrounds in 'Carnival of Thrills'.
Most of the action in this episode takes place in or around the Hazzard Fair Grounds ('Fair Grounds' was 2 words on the poster). In real life this was filmed at Saugus Speedway on Soledad Canyon Road in Santa Clarita , CA. From what I can find online, this is now used for swap meets. It was also seen in 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough' and 'Hazzard Connection'. Here's a more recent picture, or you can explore it yourself on Google Maps.
Our new RR member, Carol Bell brought up memories of her late brother, Steve Colbert racing in the 60s at Saugus Speedway in the Santa Clarita / Van Nuys, California area on Tuesday night's Goat Rodeo..
That track had a storied history, especially when the Pacific Racing Association (PRA) began promoting stock car races. One of the more recent graduates to hit the big time from the now closed Saugus track is Ron Hornaday, Jr. His dad also raced at Saugus.
The 1960s Van Nuys newspaper has several archived stories mentioning Carol's brother and the late award winning motorsports writer, Shav Glick did a 25 year retrospective of Saugus racing on the famed 1/3-mile in the L.A. Times some years back.
Saugus was one of those tracks that was dirt/paved/dirt/paved.
They even ran Figure 8 "Train" racing with 3 cars chained together.
I found this little clip on YouTube. If he hasn't already done so, seems to me that Saugus would make an excellent Ghost Track segment for Bopper's weekly installment. Bet Carol could provide him all sorts of info.
Hey, Johnny... totally off the thread subject, but did you make it over to the Rockin' Ranch to see if the painting of Ralph Earnhardt looking down on Dale at Daytona from the clouds still hangs behind the bar?
Johnny, damned if you haven't been taken to the woodshed, too!
Now I don't feel so lonesome!
