Great stuff here!! The first and last photos here are actually of scale models built by Roger Lee. Check out his talents here: http://www.dragracingphotos.ws/riceman1.shtml Jim Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
What an eye you have. He does great work. The other 2 on Page 3 are actual photos. Mike Sorokin and team has the raspiest sounding hemi top fuel motor I have ever heard. I wonder how they would have done with todays technology?
I went to Green Valley a few times as a kid with my dad. The last time was around 1980. I remember a pair of jet dragsters that had tinted plexiglass engine covers. One was red and one was yellow. Does anyone have photos...or even memories...of these? Thanks, Lee
I found a couple more 1. Green Valley 1964 AHRA Nationals. A/Fuel Roadster winner Ernie Lentz of San Antonio. Won with 10.18 et at 161 mph. 2..Green Valley 1968. Johnson Bros of Amarillo under the favorite shade tree in the pit area. They originally raced AA/FD and moved to fuel altered. Later lowered the car over a tube chasis and ran 7's at over 200 mph. These are some of the cars that inspired me to go "altered" racing........................I will show a picture of my last car from 1980 if I can find it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here they are. The Strip "T"easer....... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Anyone remember Monk King Pontiac in Dallas. They raced at Green Valley and set two world records there. The car was originally ordered for another person who attempted to race it and wrecked it. They brought it back to the dealership and traded it on a new car. Monk King rebuilt it and raced it himself.........quite successfully I would say. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
There was a raceteam that raced at Green Valley a good number of times called "The Poor Boys". John "Moose" Wilson drove fuel dragsters many a time. He is pictured here working on his old fuel coupe. He was killed in 1968 in an accident at Green Valley. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Monk King was a big name back then! Thanks for bringing that name out of the cobwebs. That Smokey Yunick autograph is great too!
Any of you guys who have been around Green Valley, Caddo Mills, Wichita Falls, Temple, Abilene and some of the other Texas tracks will remember this man and his cars. Bobby Langley and the Scorpions. 1. Bobby and Ruth Langley, Green Valley 1964 2. Needle Nose, Bobby first car. 1955. Started with a Cadillac engine, blew it up, lost his partner who provided the engine. Got a flathead from a new partner, blew it up, lost another partner. Went and bought a new 392 Chrysler from the dealer. 3. The first of the Scorpions, Scorpion 1. 1956. 4. Scorpion 1 without body. Built frame from driveshaft tubing..... 5. Scorpion 2, 1958. 6. Scorpion 2, after crash at Green Valley 7 Scorpion 3, crashed at Green Valley in 1960, ran off end of track.. 8. Scorpion 4, Won AHRA Nationals at Green Valley in 1964. 9. Scorpion 4, Green Valley 10. Scorpion 5, 1966, his last car. 11. Bobby and Ruth Langley at Bakersfield Cacklefest, 2004. 12. Bobby and Ed Iskendarian (Isky Racing Cams) 1960. This was Bobbys first supercharged car. He put 8 two barrel carburetors on top the blower and actually made it run real well......... Look at the steering wheel in the last photo. Looks like something from a 1948 Hudson Hornet..... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I've been researching photos for a 3D version of Green Valley that I'm making for a race sim called rFactor. I've been doing tracks for the old Trans Am series. I have completed Bryar, Kent and Brainerd so far. The pics here were great! I registered at the N. Texas SCCA forum sometime back, looking for any photos, but that has proven fruitless. The attached Green Valley WIP render shows left to right: 3D terrain mesh generated from USGS DEM data, same mesh with aerial photo mapped, Green Valley circuit layout that will be applied to mesh. Track and terrain is the easy part but buildings, scenery and period appearance are what make a track. Everyones photos have helped a lot, thanks to everyone here. Samples of my tracks can be seen at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUUpPpq5KA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-naWh33Ko4 Image Unavailable, Please Login
I will attempt to find more photos of the background area and turns etc. How about you Digman? Do you have any more of the old sports car racing photos?
Here are some more old photos of different things. The first ones are of the old track. My first visit to Green Valley was for the 1964 AHRA Nationals and I had to sit at the finish line because I got there late and all the good seats were taken. Somehow it was not quite as thrilling as sitting at the starting line where I try to sit now..... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here are some that were taken after the encroachment by the housing and are views from different areas of the old track in bad disrepair. And a few of the old track showing elevation changes and some buildings like the tower and the crossover bridge. I hope some of these are some good to you...........I am anxious to see your finished product. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Amazing work! what other tracks do you offer? Texas World Speedway, Motor Sports Ranch Cresson, etc....
Nick, great looking game and graphics ! Here's two shots from the N E side of the track, just before the big 180 turn before the front straight. That's the last of mine. Keep us old Valley fans posted. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Wow, thanks for the response guys. Weird thing is every road course I've made so far has had a drag strip. I've even made a set of Chrondeks for Brainerd, my local track. I'm located on the other end of I-35 in a suburb of St. Paul. Been researching Continental Divide also and that has a drag strip too! If anyone knows of any Green Valley websites post a link. Here's two I stumbled across: http://www.lotus-cortina.com/photos/gwynne/album/dg-pic.htm http://www.dearbornflashback.com/greenvalley.asp One track I'd really like to make is Meadowdale which was located near Elgin, Il.: http://www.meadowdaleraceway.homestead.com/index.html How's that for a reference source. My brother picked me up a DVD, off of Ebay, of a guys vintage 8mm movies of Meadowdale transferred to DVD. It's awesome. I'm kind of old and slow, taught myself the 3D & graphics programs to make these tracks. I think I started Brainerd 5 years ago. Got some good input from the people at Trackpedia forum on Brainerd. http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Brainerd_International_Raceway If I was making modern tracks YouTube would be a blessing, there's tons of in-car shots of tracks all over the world. I just discovered Google Earth and that's really going to help out on measuring track widths and the like. Thanks again, Mike. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Found a few more. I run across one every once in a while.. I had forgotten about some of them...... Bobby Langley Scorpion 1V Ronald Swans Falcon altered wheelbase funny car Reher-Morrison 1970 1964 AHRA Nationals Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here's a YouTube video of my progress on rFactor Green Valley Raceway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KthFnt4tyEA I redid loft of track surface using track widths and elevations measured from Google Earth. Turned out pretty nice. Got a little interference with ground mesh at middle of drag strip so track is floating above USGS derived surface. Plan on doing conform of mesh to flatten area beneath track. I also started modeling tower in first picture in post #1 which is visible at end of video. If you've driven at Green Valley, please comment at YouTube regarding any camber in corners. Indicate corner by video time and degree of camber. Thanks. Image Unavailable, Please Login
When we were in Scottsdale, I picked up the Arizona edition of "Collector Car Auto Trader." In that issue, the red '41 Willys coupe of "Big John" was for sale at an asking price of $190K. Big John helped build it before he died last year. The co-owner of the National Gasser Club lives in Arizona and owns that car. He has been sick, so I suppose that is why the car is now for sale.
Not get this thread off track but that Greenvalley Raceway, Smithfield Texas banner got me curious. So I checked the Texas Ghost town register for Smithfield. http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/tx/smithfield.html
