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The Good Ole Daze Series

Historic racing videos, always with a touch of the spectacular. This series includes footage from the unparalleled Herb Wolf movie collection. Each tape is fully narrated and 1 hour in length.

   Silver Spring Speedway - A Little Track That Roared!   

Opening in 1954, as one of many speedways in the Central PA "hot bed" of racing, this three-eights mile dirt track soon garnered a reputation as not only the best weekly show on the circuit, but one of the best in the entire country. THE SPRING lost it's lengthy battle against urban sprawl in 2006. But, in this production, memories of the good old "daze" live forever, including moving footage from all six decades of THE SPRING'S existence.

Fully narrated by Dave Hare. Silver Spring also includes footage from long gone race tracks at the Carlisle Fairgrounds and Fredericksburg Stadium.

Revisit the original Coupe Stock Cars, Class A's, Hobby Stocks, Early Modifieds, Super Sportsman, Late Models and Street Stocks.  

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   The Reading Modifieds                                                       

Footage from 1952, right up to 1979, when this great track closed. See the Tas, Toby, Chamberlain, Gerhart, Brightbill and more. 

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   Super Sprinters                                                                  

The first two decades of Central PA  sprint cars. Footage from 1964 to 1984. Without a doubt, the most enthralling time and place in racing history. Watch the home-built bugs sprout humungous wings and evolve towards the sprint cars of today. An era of race car individually combined with high speeds like no other. See Ray Tilly, Bobby Adamson, Jan Opperman, Mitch Smith, Lynn Paxton, Kenny Weld, Bobby Allen and more.

 

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  The Fast and the Famous                                                  

Over an hour of previously unreleased footage of the original sprint car era in the East, before wings and roll cages.  Includes some midgets and big "dirt" cars.  Accurately narrated by the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing's Joe Heisler and Fred Sherk, there's bound to be something on this video that will bring you or your favorite "old timer" to his feet.

Relive AAA, Penn Jersey, Flemington, Gratz, Sidney, Alcyon, Langhorne, Del-Mar, Bloomsburg, York Fairgrounds, Schindler, Hinnershitz, Thomson, Horn, Herk, Allentown, URC, USAC & More!

 

From Joie Chitwood's 1942 win at Reading, to A.J.'s 1963 flip at Williams Grove. these were the good old 'daze" when dirt tracks paved the way to the Brickyard.


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