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[Joe Nix]

'T' Club Speedway, Buellton California

Hot Rod Races, June 25, 1950, Sanctioned by the Lompoc Model-T-Club

I stumbled onto this via looking at Dining Car photo collections. And couldn't find a topic via search where it should be added.


"The Lompoc Model T Club, along with some Buellton race drivers persuaded Mullen’s (owner of a roadside diner) to lease them his land for an oval race track. The club had been sanctioning races in Lompoc since 1936 building race tracks where ever they could convince landowners to let them run for a season.

With the return of the young war veterans, the old T cars fell out of fashion as the young bucks started building hot rods out of the 32 and 33 Ford’s with their flathead V-8’s."

2 photos and more of the story at:

http://tinyurl.com/ybqrafz

or

http://www.oldgas.co.../001405-2.html

[Graham Clayton]

Some more photos and front pages of programs can be seen here:

http://tinyurl.com/3knczyd