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man what a great thread!!  so good i just re registered as i have been away from the forum a long time. grew up in niagara falls new york and my dad and uncle where involved in scca and road racing .mod and supers weekly racing at lancaster and oswego on the pavement back in the early 70s.they took me everywhere  st jovie quebec (sp) the glen mosport road atlanta lime rock u name i was there. after years of f1 can am f 5000 and trans am racing we went to the grove opener in 79. was hooked immediately watching them fly under the bridge!!!  swithched from pavement to sprints ever since and was fortunate enough to travel follow the outlaws all stars during the hey day with my uncle and dad. from florida to cali and everywhere in between i met some of the best and even helped out on occasion in the parking lots or motel lots!! great memories and unfortunately im stuck on the coast of carolina now with no sprintcars in sight so this thread brought back some great stories i tell my kids still to this day.

I was born in 76 and both sides of my family owned cars and raced. To me racing was alot different then than it is today. i remember as a kid, that its was like a big community of racers and fans having a great weekend, then all of a sudden a race broke out. If they could somehow tap into those days again, get more fans involved during the week, with such activites as parades and such, would be good for the sport again. It was much more then just the racing, but those who were around then, still claim those were the golden years of the sport.... Hard to argue that with everything that went on.

I was about 5 so 1980 or 1981 at Husets.  Not sure what fuel they ran, but it smelled great.  If Wolfie was there, all eyes were on him to come from the back.  50 cent box of popcorn; we would run down the walkway to and from the concessions pretending to have our own race.  A couple of guys, Marlon and Don Jones and Rick Dump would let me sit in the car as they pushed it up onto the open trailer... talk about a thrill!  Was hooked hard for the next 20 years.  I still get to one or two a year and still get the same thrill from a sprint car.

That's my story too.    My earliest memories are being in the stands at the Ditch in West Memphis at five years of age with my fingers in my ears cause the cars were so dang loud!   I guess you could even say I was hooked by the great Hooker himself! 

I also have great memories of going to the track with my dad on so many nights.   I notice that you live in Austin.   I live in Dallas myself.   Just curious what you do now for your sprint car fix now as I'm assuming there's not much of anything around Austin?   Do you go to ASCS regionals in Waco or Houston?   Devils Bowl?   Can't wait to see the WoO again at the Bowl! 

My big problem is I really don't care for 305 sprints.   I like ASCS and am grateful the National series comes around periodically since we haven't had 410s around here in years.   Another problem for me is the tracks around here that host ASCS regional races and make you sit through six or seven other classes.   I can't handle that, so I stay home.    I don't mind sitting through another class or two when I go to see sprints, but sprints are the only things worth watching for me.   You could take every late model and IMCA modified in the country and put 'em in a pile and burn 'em and I'd be happy to light the fire!   I really enjoy going to Knoxville because that's all you see is sprints.   Sure wish Texas had something like that.  

That's a valid point I suppose.   You do see that at a lot of tracks.    I was encouraged to see a good deal of young people in the stands at Knoxville.   Maybe in some areas of the country it's not just us old dudes.    I think the sport definetly has the same capability to hook young people that it had when it hooked us!   I'm not sure why it's not happening in some areas though.  

Nothing wrong with a bunch of Old Farts....They pay the bills...Seems all the youngies are more concernied with the Xbox! Texting  and hanging out!,(not at the races) The attention span of a gamer is only utilized on a GAME Playing!Oh  and by the way I'm not that old,,,,,,,only in my 50's................

Don't even get me started on all these Bozo's married to their phone's.  Bugs the hell out of me.

 80 percent of my posts r from my phone,  And hoseheads is generally the first thing I check when I pick up my phone.  

I almost forgot,  thanks to the development of some amazing apps im on my phone in between races when im at the races.  Please don't take this post as disparaging to the original post about phones.  I was just pointing out that my phone has greatly enhanced my passion for sprint car racing.  Sorry for the interruption,  now back to your original programming. 

I was basically referring to the no mind 'kids' that have nothing better to do, while you are having lunch with them no less, to hang on the damn thing like they are alone.  I have a 'no phone zone' in my downstairs 'mancave'.  You want to be on the phone down there, you will be asked ONCE, to put it away.  @nd time you are told to leave.  Time and a place.....