Green Valley

[Butch]

Found this link on another website, anyone here old enough to remember Green Valley?

http://ardmoredragway.proboards.com/...ay&thread=1263

[SonicblueGT03]

I am. Did my first 1/4 mile there back in the late 70's. I currently live in South Keller, and have to drive over the end of the strip every night coming home from work.

[Butch]

I drove by there one time looking to see if I could remember where it was. Haven't seen it since the mid 60's.

[jlyon]

that's where i got bit by the go fast bug. i got a couple pics of my dad's road runner he had that he raced there. wish i could have gotten to race on that track.

[jlyon]

shitty pic of a pic. my dads car is on the right



this is a pic of that car, not at the track

[Vertnut]

Took my high school girlfriend to the Spring Nationals there in 1979. Pit Passes and the whole nine yards. Green Valley is gone, but I've still got the girl.

[SonicblueGT03]

I remember coming back to town and finding out GV had closed. Drove out there from Burleson, must have been '90 or '91. The crossover tower was still standing by the start line, most of the track surface was still there, hell, there were still oil stains in the pit area. When I moved to Keller in 2003, I walked the field to see what was left. Just a little bit of the shutdown area and a piece of one of the turnoffs to the return road. Tower was gone, most of the pit area had been plowed and was being used as storage for road equipment on the North Tarrant road project. They had even changed the route that Smithfield Rd used to take. Sad to have seen it go, but what was once way out in the country had become "in the city", it was inevitable.

[whitetrash]

Y'all some old fuckers!

My dad used to tell me stories of GV.

[Vertnut]

Y'all some old fuckers!

My dad used to tell me stories of GV.

Your dad ever tell you about "grudge night", and a nasty 428CJ coupe running past everyone like they were tied to a post? ;-)

[JP135]

Found this link on another website, anyone here old enough to remember Green Valley?

I remember Green Valley. Jesus was still a Cub Scout. Methuselah was just a corporal. Dirt was new.

[helosailor]

I raced there the last two seasons it was open.

[46Tbird]

Apparently I went a few times as a real young kid but I don't remember it. My mom won a couple of ladies' drag races there.

Here is some various Green Valley 'stuff.'

Green Valley Drag Way was in North Richland Hills, Texas. Turn West off Davis Blvd. on to Green Valley Dr.. Then turn Right on Smithfield Rd. and make the S-Curve. Main Gate on Right 1st and then Pit Gate 2nd Right. Green Valley was opened sometime in 1959/60. I graduated from High School in 1962 and made about all the races on Sunday. If I couldn't get a ride I would walk to the strip. The strip ended about halfway between Davis Blvd. and Smithfield Rd.. Several cars went thru the hay bales, cargo net, fence and into the trees in the yard across Green Valley Dr. into the front yard of the house across the street. The strip had been gone for several years. Mostly houses and fields now. No sign of the strip at all. During the summer when I was 16 I had the job of picking up the trast the week after the race. I have alot of memories of all the cars and people who came to Green Valley. I can not under stand why not information, picture are on the internet. It was a great drag strip.

http://ardmoredragway.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talkaboutadhistory&action=display&thread=1263

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8267740

It wasn't just drag racing, either. The SCCA hosted several road racing events in the mid-late '60s.

[Scott Mc]

Right before they ripped the last part of the track up (back half of the track) I went out there and chipped up several pieces of the asphalt. There were still some guard rails laying in the dirt but were too long for me to find a way to get them home. My Cousin used to announce there often. Sad that it is gone.

[Butch]

I remember Green Valley. Jesus was still a Cub Scout. Methuselah was just a corporal. Dirt was new.

And hell was just a campfire. Right?

[JP135]

And hell was just a campfire. Right?

Bingo, sir.