Pennsboro Always Remember Never Forget

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2014
  • no copyright is intended on this video.. Thank you to Sport Plus and others who provided clips.. Lets remember this place for what it was and try to save her!

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  • @kestonohm7735
    @kestonohm7735 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This track will be back in 2024!

    • @shaynejenkins446
      @shaynejenkins446 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not the original track. Its just a 1/4 mile inside.

    • @user-ti1ch5zj9s
      @user-ti1ch5zj9s 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@shaynejenkins446 they have scrapped the 1/4th mile idea for now, all the races in 2024 will be on a widened version of the original track

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas หลายเดือนก่อน

      THANK YOU JESUS! are you serious? ARE YOU SERIOUS! i live in wisconsin, didnt know this place existed til i saw it with jaw agape on you tube. now i search and search, wanting more. you bet youre ASS i will be there

  • @rickietikie7614
    @rickietikie7614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Stood on the back of Bernard Tripplets wrecker and watched the hillbilly 100 way way back in the day ,I was 17 then now I'm 67 and never forgot

  • @michaelhall3074
    @michaelhall3074 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man. I’ve spent many years going to that track. Loved the Hillbilly 100 or the World 100. Brings back a lot of great memories watching these videos. Thanks for sharing.

    • @BradenLewis-bm2ur
      @BradenLewis-bm2ur 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Coming back this year supposedly the first race will be in may

  • @tim7131
    @tim7131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love these old speedway videos. Brings back some great memories.

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pennsboro speedway is coming back in 2024!!!!

  • @forwarddrive4066
    @forwarddrive4066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My father & I sat on that hillside in 1988 and watched a 100 lap race. The 10 hour drive was well worth it 👍

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +2

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Coming back in 2024!!!!! Looks like a really cool place

    • @joshuaburson3621
      @joshuaburson3621 ปีที่แล้ว

      i sold 50/50 and programs along up and down those hills ! My mom had the glhs shelby omni it was red at the foot of the hill we sold programs and 50/50

    • @michaelolenick4078
      @michaelolenick4078 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Miss that old track the magic of pennsboro

    • @Rocket-ck3qn
      @Rocket-ck3qn หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@joshuaburson3621how many times you going to say it in one paragraph,.

  • @boom4290
    @boom4290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loved the footage of Swartz!

  • @12terpfan
    @12terpfan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Some great memories, started going to the DTWC in '85 to '97. Thanks for posting

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +2

      coming back in 2024!!

  • @ralphdavis6052
    @ralphdavis6052 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you bought a hillbilly 100 or dtwc shirt, hat, or driver's shirt in early 80s to about 85, you bought them from us. If you bought a Southern Auto racing News or later Racing News, you bought it from me. A great time to be a young teen

  • @timothystalnaker3186
    @timothystalnaker3186 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I used to go there in the 70's & 80's. Will certainly be glad to see her rn again. BEST Dirt Track in the state.

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      2024!!!!

    • @MrChristopherHaas
      @MrChristopherHaas หลายเดือนก่อน

      what what im seeing on you tube thats saying ALOT. gotta find out for myself

  • @clinchleatherwood1012
    @clinchleatherwood1012 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This brings tears to my eyes thinking of two great speedways in my area that are now pine tree farms. What a shame.

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A movie came out in mid 2021 Lost Speedways Pennsboro Speedway: The Miracle

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bobroberts2371 Track is coming back in 2024!!!!!! The same people reviving the north Wilkesboro nascar track are behind it

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Track will be returning in 2024!!!!

  • @michaelweekly3305
    @michaelweekly3305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Went there in the 70s thanks for the memories

  • @caseydeleski7712
    @caseydeleski7712 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    there rebuilding. wow amazing😊

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @casualobserver2305
    @casualobserver2305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looks like it would be a cool place to restore and have races. I bet the peeps would surely come watch. I would.

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      I will be there for sure

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      In 2024 baby!!!!

    • @BradenLewis-bm2ur
      @BradenLewis-bm2ur 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      First comeback race scheduled for memorial day weekend 2024

  • @hannakinn
    @hannakinn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was there in (I think it was 1981) in the fall it was for some big purse late model dirt track race. Neal Bonnet showed up, I was there with my then husband (now my ex), he was a big racing fan and his best friend was a pretty good late model driver that was there to race. My husband was on his crew, so my husband had to be there. We rented a big travel trailer and drove it there from Maryland for the event. I didn't know any of the big name drivers by sight, the only Nascar driver I might have been able to recognize back then was Richard Petty but he wasn't there. I had zero clue what Neal Bonnet looked like. My husband had mentioned hearing Neal might be there to race. I got sick of the noise and all the people and activity around the track and wound up taking a walk away from the track, to try to get some peace and quiet for a bit. I was standing sort of on a slope looking toward the track when this nice older man walked up, he said hello and also faced the track, after a minute or two he asked me where I was from and told me where he was from, he which drivers I liked, I remember telling him I really didn't like car racing at all but my husband did. I told him I hated watching it in person and on TV and was always afraid someone would be hurt or killed. I told him I was there because my husband's hobby was working on his buddy's crew and that car racing took up a lot of my husband's free time. I remember him saying he could see how racing might interfere with family life. He said he was there because he really liked car racing a lot, probably too much. We had a nice fairly long chat, just the 2 of us, pretty far away from the chaos at the track, enjoying a bit of calm. Later that day my husband and I were walking and my husband said there he is,, there's Neal Bonnet and my husband pointed at the man I'd talked to on my walk. Neal Bonnet smiled, this big smile at me as he did the finger point gun thing towards me and said Hi there,, good to see you again. I'll never forget the look on my husband's face as he turned to me and asked how the heck I knew Neal Bonnet. Lol it was funny! I'll also never forget how quickly my mind was working to try to remember what negative things I'd said to Neal Bonnet about car racing..lol
    I also remember a band playing on some stage and a huge fist fight breaking out there, one like they always show happening in westerns in a saloon. It was crazy.. I also remember that a lot of people were drunk, and I remember some people being angry about the lack of promised free BBQ or something. It was cold there and 2 or 3 people died, or were rumored to have died after being taken away by ambulance. They had been in their camper that was parked close to our motor home, they turned on their heat and got carbon monoxide poisoning.
    My husband's friend didn't qualify due to some part failing on his car during his heat and Neal Bonnet placed low, I don't remember who won the race at all but I do remember that weekend. I was sad when Neal Bonnet died, he was a nice man even to people that were not fans of racing and he obviously didn't think of himself as a celebrity or behave like one. My husband said Neal had probably enjoyed talking to someone that treated him like an average Joe.
    We never went to Pennsboro again, tracks we went to the most were Lincoln and Williams Grove in PA.
    I was hoping to find video from that race in 1981 but I guess that was too long ago for there to be any online.

    • @jimmieroan9881
      @jimmieroan9881 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      a company was selling dvd's of the race in 1983, you can probably find them on the internet. try looking for a dvd of DTWC, even if it wasn't the championship race he might have tapes of the race. i was there 83-84-and 85.

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimmieroan9881 hope they bring the DTWC back here cuz pennsboro is coming back in 2024!!!!!!!

    • @Rocket-ck3qn
      @Rocket-ck3qn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pretty cool 😎 I'm from Maryland to old lady, Good times all respect 🙏, whatever happened to your ex-husband.

  • @jakecox7098
    @jakecox7098 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for sharing I hope it comes back I didn't miss a race there!! And me and my family are in this video!!

  • @xraciernumbernine2981
    @xraciernumbernine2981 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    cool stuff thanks for posting.

  • @NVE
    @NVE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    man i lliked how the dirt late model body templates looked back then compared to today. i mean they dont look crazy different or anything lol. its just something about them though.

  • @stevenwalls7215
    @stevenwalls7215 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So so many great o race tracks are closed and gone now cause way to many kids and people have gotten away from the great sport of racein if they would get off the computer some times and go watch it in person they would see how fun and great it is

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I will be there in 2024!!!!!!

  • @baims8367
    @baims8367 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THE GOOD OL DAYS
    Gone for ever 😞😞

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      BACK FROM THE DEAD RACING RETURNING TO PENNSBORO IN 2024!!!!!

  • @roberthamrick9493
    @roberthamrick9493 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to go there as a kid, I would love to see them rebuild and get those bridges redone overall, parking was always tough at pennsboro

    • @sidebite2533
      @sidebite2533 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes
      I remember having to park at Rite Aid about a mile up the mountain from the track. Didn't care much then. Was in my early 20's.😑

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sidebite2533 hope that rite aid is still there cuz pennsboro is coming back in 2024!!!!

  • @177racing
    @177racing 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    BADASS Video.

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Racing returning in pennsboro in 2024!!!!!!!

  • @bubbaakatommyoso4119
    @bubbaakatommyoso4119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They are supposed to be restoring it and opening back up one of these days

  • @jimmymcmahon5961
    @jimmymcmahon5961 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A lot of memories at that old hole. Drove up there from Atlanta area twice a year to see some great racin for several years. Old dirt turned white late in the feature..

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      2024!!!! Hope you can afford the gas from Atlanta!!!

  • @jag3rb0mb
    @jag3rb0mb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bring back the half mile!!!!

  • @jayirving6996
    @jayirving6996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got a chainsaw, dozer and excavator.... bye bye trees! Tire to pack track boys! Why the hell did that track close? It looks like it was the talledega of dirt tracks!!!

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @davidvanbrunt4233
    @davidvanbrunt4233 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was really nice.....

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @scottmiller3025
    @scottmiller3025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very sad and humbling, a few tracks in my area including atomic speedway that use to set beside i75 have come to this!

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pennsboro is coming back in 2024!!! It's being done by the same people bringing back the north Wilkesboro nascar track. Also idk if you've been back to atomic speedway but they got a new owner and all the big tours came back in 2022 including WoO.

    • @scottmiller3025
      @scottmiller3025 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nickphilkill8287 the atomic I knew is know a somekind of trucking hub, I had not heard of anything that you mentioned...

    • @BradenLewis-bm2ur
      @BradenLewis-bm2ur 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nickphilkill8287same name but a different track

    • @BradenLewis-bm2ur
      @BradenLewis-bm2ur 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@scottmiller3025 theres a newer track in chillicothe ohio called atomic speedway, not the same track

  • @bobroberts2371
    @bobroberts2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A movie came out in mid 2021 Lost Speedways Pennsboro Speedway: The Miracle

  • @bradleysturgeon7099
    @bradleysturgeon7099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would love to see today’s late models run around this old place.

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      2024!!!!! It's coming back

    • @larrycumberledge7494
      @larrycumberledge7494 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's gonna take the scene by storm this track is a legend

    • @larrycumberledge7494
      @larrycumberledge7494 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd love to see today's sprints on this track also I see a late model hitting lower 100s down straights and sprints hitting 140 to 150

  • @caseylee4266
    @caseylee4266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bring back the wedge cars

    • @sillygoose2508
      @sillygoose2508 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What

    • @sidebite2533
      @sidebite2533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, let's not.

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Racing returns in 2024 to pennsboro!!!!

    • @MarkEastman-gi6zs
      @MarkEastman-gi6zs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just think how fast those wedged outlaws would be nowadays

  • @steveashworth6707
    @steveashworth6707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've raced there before!, I helluva dirt track!. If I could win the lotto I'd move down there and buy the track and re-open it!, other than working and surviving that's what them people lived for on the weekends!. I live real close to donnie Moran and his track and root his son Devin on!. At 65 I'm on limited income but I play the lotto everyday so I'll keep hoping!.

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A movie came out in mid 2021 Lost Speedways Pennsboro Speedway: The Miracle

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

  • @garyford2039
    @garyford2039 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Went there in the late 60 s. My little league coach took us. Pretty regular. Sat up on the hill in turn 3 I believe

  • @jakesshopandtracktalk1835
    @jakesshopandtracktalk1835 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Y'all save her and I'll come and buy a ticket.

    • @michaelross3046
      @michaelross3046 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn straight. It's 9 hours from here, but if you bring her back I'm packing up the boys and heading to WV.

    • @ThunderMS34
      @ThunderMS34 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Michael Ross heard they are trying to reopen it for 2016/2017

    • @rjmiller88
      @rjmiller88  9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      thunderdog394 v2 we are trying. new guardrail, scoreboard, and bleacher being installed this summer

    • @ThunderMS34
      @ThunderMS34 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      :D my dad said he heard of it and his friends raced there but he's never been there it's true they have drive over 3 bridges?

    • @bradleysturgeon7099
      @bradleysturgeon7099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ThunderMotorsports34 it’s a beautiful place. Checked it off my bucket list at 15 years of age.

  • @bubbaakatommyoso4119
    @bubbaakatommyoso4119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did u see Bloomquist on his 4wheeler What a Pric lmao

  • @TheBullet51
    @TheBullet51 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would love to see current late models on that old track......went there 1 time as a boy.....got to sit in Craig Briggs' #04

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A movie came out in mid 2021 Lost Speedways Pennsboro Speedway: The Miracle

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Coming back in 2024

  • @MarkMark-ju8sk
    @MarkMark-ju8sk 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this the track that you have to go through a tunnel to get to it? I remember the race haulers barely fit in it.
    It’s been many years since I’ve been there.
    Why did it close?

    • @michaelolenick4078
      @michaelolenick4078 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are thinking of West Virginia Motor Speedway at Mineral Wells

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @gmanltz8070
    @gmanltz8070 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now that's dirt tracking at it's Best !!!!!!!!

  • @Rbyrd77
    @Rbyrd77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow. What a track. What happened?

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its coming back in 2024

  • @robertottp7078
    @robertottp7078 ปีที่แล้ว

    Allways went to the hillbilly and the dtwc some of the best Times their ,miss Stars their was good racing every weekend an hour drive from wheeling

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @roberthamrick9493
    @roberthamrick9493 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    plus rename turn one in memory of earl Pierson, the double-ot eyes car

  • @jakeschuler4475
    @jakeschuler4475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Will never forget about the Jim Dunn story about him beating some big names there

    • @hannakinn
      @hannakinn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe that's who won a big purse race I was at in the fall of 81, Neal Bonnet was there racing and didn't win.

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope they got another local boy who can beat davenport cuz it's coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hannakinn pennsboro is returning in 2024!!!

  • @danworstall620
    @danworstall620 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool video, but what a depressing song. Lol

    • @shaynejenkins446
      @shaynejenkins446 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You didn't watch the whole video. Lol

  • @ronjohnson3695
    @ronjohnson3695 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So SAD to watch one by one ,speedways going and put out of business. By people moving into the area of speedways that don't like dust and noise. One by one disappearing. Reading fairgrounds, Flemington N.J. N.Y.s fairgrounds speedway and langhorn speedway in Pennsylvania and possibly Albany Saratoga speedway in upstate N.Y. Slowly but surely Nascar is micro managing itself out of business. In Rensselaer County N.Y. had 17 speedways ! Not one exists today .The cost factor of racing and combining with progress is detrimental to our sport

  • @michaelbarnett526
    @michaelbarnett526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    who is ready for 2024

    • @shaynejenkins446
      @shaynejenkins446 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not on the original track though.

    • @Stick002
      @Stick002 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shaynejenkins446 It is going to now. They got the permits a couple days ago. They're gonna be redoing the big track. New bridges, widen the track. The stuff that it needs. 1/4 Mile plan is gone, big track is back.

    • @BradenLewis-bm2ur
      @BradenLewis-bm2ur 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I will be there for the 100 lapper in October

  • @tannerbo1p
    @tannerbo1p 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember every year someone would burn down the shit houses

    • @sidebite2533
      @sidebite2533 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not true

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sidebite2533 its coming back in 2024

  • @youngcarter765
    @youngcarter765 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I mean, I like the video, but why this song? The speedway can't lie with you and just forget the world..

    • @NVE
      @NVE 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i meannnn maybe it can...

    • @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113
      @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You could putchee some fresh Tires on it and drive it, all night long.

  • @lucasoldaker2158
    @lucasoldaker2158 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is a damn shame the people in that town can't get their shit together and open that place back up it could make a lot of money for that small town aot of people don't know this but that track is owned by the town not a private person

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, have you gone to the town with a detailed plan / funding to reopen it?

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

    • @nickphilkill8287
      @nickphilkill8287 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bobroberts2371 somebody did because it's coming back in 2024!!!!

  • @bubbaakatommyoso4119
    @bubbaakatommyoso4119 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't understand why they picked this song to use

  • @garyford2039
    @garyford2039 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually turn 4

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @scottholbert1192
    @scottholbert1192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Word of wisdom, just beacuse you like a song for any reason. Keep it out of your videos. I was at the very first race at the Pen . Sure would be nice to hear the announcer of the different years when they were speaking but you must not g.a.s.🙄

    • @cumminsrealpower680
      @cumminsrealpower680 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That and the sound of the engines. Not knocking the song, just the use of it in the video.

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

  • @bubbaakatommyoso4119
    @bubbaakatommyoso4119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are supposed to be restoring it and opening back up one of these days

    • @VSNVanny
      @VSNVanny ปีที่แล้ว

      its coming back in 2024

    • @MarkEastman-gi6zs
      @MarkEastman-gi6zs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@VSNVanny do u know when they will be racing there this year