This one's for Budnicks!

[bobtile]

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[kiwigtx]

Hope you don't mind Bob...I peeked as well.

 

[Budnicks]

That is cool,
I wonder if I saw it for real ?
went down there with my step dad many times,
started in like 1967 @ 7-8 years old...
I went down with my altered only a couple times,
before it closed in Oct. 1983...

Sad really

Thanks Bobby

Budnicks Likey !!

 

[Mike Gaines]

I worked for FENTON WHEEL during the OCIR heydays. I had season pass and credentials to watch races from top floor of the tower. We were NHRA Major Sponsors from 1971 thru 1982...Those were good days...

 

[bobtile]

I wish I was as old as you guys so I could have fond memories too!

 

[shorty64]

My buddy and I used to go down there from Sacramento in the 1968-1970 time frame when I was stationed in Sacramento in the USAF. We used to run his 70 Plum Crazy 440 dodge 4spd at the local track on Saturdays as "pure stock" against whatever Chevelles, Fords, etc showed up. It was a work track, nothing planned, no classes, run as soon as you got back in line.

Then being in the mood, down to OCR on Sundays and watch The Hawaiian, Snake-Mongoose, Jungle Jim (& Pam), and all the others! What a hoot. No security; numerous times I went down to the end of the guard rails with my 35mm camera very close to the nearest lane and got shots at the end of their runs. Good times!!!

 

[MarPar]

another one for Buds...

 

[Habib]

BOBTILE IS ALL KNOWING AND ALL POWERFUL.

 

[MOPOWER871]

ALL HALE BOBTILE ,

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[kiwigtx]

I wish I was as old as you guys so I could have fond memories too!

Don't go wishing your years away too soon Bob.

 

[Cornpatch MO]

I worked for FENTON WHEEL during the OCIR heydays. I had season pass and credentials to watch races from top floor of the tower. We were NHRA Major Sponsors from 1971 thru 1982...Those were good days...

Fenton wheel--COOL ! I have a pair of excellent condition Fenton Hustler 5 spoke "mags" on my 64 Dodge nostalgia street and strip car. I understand that Fenton made them for only a couple years in the mid 60's. Is that true?.................................MO

 

[bobtile]

BOBTILE IS ALL KNOWING AND ALL POWERFUL.

Thats a true statement right there!

 

[super-bee_ski]

another one for Buds...

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I can watch that video all day long!

 

[super-bee_ski]

My buddy and I used to go down there from Sacramento in the 1968-1970 time frame when I was stationed in Sacramento in the USAF. We used to run his 70 Plum Crazy 440 dodge 4spd at the local track on Saturdays as "pure stock" against whatever Chevelles, Fords, etc showed up. It was a work track, nothing planned, no classes, run as soon as you got back in line.

Then being in the mood, down to OCR on Sundays and watch The Hawaiian, Snake-Mongoose, Jungle Jim (& Pam), and all the others! What a hoot. No security; numerous times I went down to the end of the guard rails with my 35mm camera very close to the nearest lane and got shots at the end of their runs. Good times!!!

Mclellan AFB or Mather AFB?

 

[Budnicks]

Mather AFB hwy 50 side, McLellan AFB int/hwy-80 side

neither is still a full operating base, Mather was a private
Fed-Ex/UPS/DHL one or all 3, used as a just a warehouse fac. &
landing strip last I saw...

Not sure about the rest of the base opps...

I almost bought a golf course by/on McLellan,
too many issues, tainted/contaminated land etc. I passed...

 

[Mike Gaines]

Fenton wheel--COOL ! I have a pair of excellent condition Fenton Hustler 5 spoke "mags" on my 64 Dodge nostalgia street and strip car. I understand that Fenton made them for only a couple years in the mid 60's. Is that true?.................................MO

Cornpatch,
We made the FENTON HUSTLER 5 spoke Mags (1 piece cast aluminum) for several years...from mid 1960's all the way thru 1983 when the company went out of business. The Hustler was a take-off on the American Racing Torque-Thrust 5 spoke Mag Wheel.

 

[Cornpatch MO]

Cornpatch,
We made the FENTON HUSTLER 5 spoke Mags (1 piece cast aluminum) for several years...from mid 1960's all the way thru 1983 when the company went out of business. The Hustler was a take-off on the American Racing Torque-Thrust 5 spoke Mag Wheel.

Thanks Mike. I guess the internet is not always right. LOL These are nice mags, I really like them...................MO