With the thaw came time to tidy away the Ice Racing track.
This meant clearing space by shortening the 16x4 oval.
Reduced to 12x4.I realise it is a little small by the standards of serious oval racers, but oval racing in UK has always been on a much smaller scale than in USA.
Stock Car racing began here in the mid 50s, often in a stadium which already contained a Greyhound racing track(dogs;not buses), and a football pitch.
The infield was marked with painted 50 gallon drums
And the cars were kept out of the crowd by a strained wire fence with scrap tyres threaded over the posts
To be honest, the posts seem to have been I-section girders, not telegraph poles.
You can see that I had laboriously cut 50-odd tyres from auto heater hose before discovering ready-made 1/32 scrap tyres on e-bay.(Agricultural model of silage-covering tarpaulin, with the tyres to weigh it down).
Now to get cracking on some stock cars of the era . . .
David.
