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Nostalgia Drag Strip!

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 12:35 pm
by Ivor

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 12:46 pm
by jerry
Thats cool Ivor bit further than the pod though :lol:

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:09 pm
by Guy
I am sure I have been there about 12 years ago, I am certain it was an 1/8 mile track

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:38 pm
by latil
Imagine that with your house built on site.A nice all in business with a free dragstrip every day.

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:49 pm
by Dave-R
I really wish Silloth in Cumbria could hold drag racing again because it is only a couple of hours drive from mine and is pretty central for the UK as a whole. Including N.Ireland.

It needs a new surface though. The old concrete has broken up badly now. Me and Mrs Woodhead had a drive on it in the Challenger a few years ago. It was pretty bumpy with the grass growing between the cracks.

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 3:08 pm
by Jeff
Near Cherokee, that place is worse than southend on a bank holiday!

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 3:17 pm
by Ivor
Jeff wrote:Near Cherokee, that place is worse than southend on a bank holiday!
Hey Jeff, I thought that neck of the woods was supposed be great?

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 3:55 pm
by Jeff
Blue ridge mountains... FANTASTIC! As you get toward the smokeys. It is still nice, But Cherokee? NAH!

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 4:05 pm
by Ivor
Well, I'll make sure I give Cherokee a miss next time I'm over!

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 4:07 pm
by Jeff
Ivor, Just drive through it, Anyway you be better off in Canada.

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 4:24 pm
by Ivor
Sorry mate, I didn't like Canada...nice scenery, but it was full of foreigners
;)

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 7:28 pm
by Adam
Yeah, we stayed a night in Cherokee once. Pretty tacky, unless your idea of fun is seeing stuffed wild animals.

English Mountain dragstrip is actually much nearer to Sevierville TN - now that is a cool place, if only for Garrett's Muscle Car Museum

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 8:01 pm
by Anonymous
Hey Ivor give it a look man, Pigeon Forge is not my cup of tea but the road over the mountains from Pigeon Forge to Cherokee is great. Never ever seen a lot of people at Cherokee, drove threw many times, you then need to drive to the Maggy Valley and then onto Chimney Rock....... :thumbright:

Hey Mark (Newport 100) do you recognise the Fat Boy. :lol:

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 8:48 pm
by Anonymous
Dave wrote:I really wish Silloth in Cumbria could hold drag racing again because it is only a couple of hours drive from mine and is pretty central for the UK as a whole. Including N.Ireland.

It needs a new surface though. The old concrete has broken up badly now. Me and Mrs Woodhead had a drive on it in the Challenger a few years ago. It was pretty bumpy with the grass growing between the cracks.


Thats a good idea, we need a strip in the north! :thumbright:

Posted: Wed May 14, 08 9:01 pm
by Adam
Blimey Slick - that's the same bear in front of the same gift shop!