Speedways like this NEED to be remembered...too many good times for too many people. Talk to the old guys in your neighborhoods and they'll tell you like it was...good times every weekend in the summer. Thanks for posting this!
I was born in 67 in cobalt ridge,youngest of 9.i remember my older brothers and sisters talking about the racetrack all the time.the good ole days of levittown/langhorne.Glad to see the memories.Thank you sir.
Grew up at Langhorne speed way to during the 60s. Story Goes in My father was racing 8th mile drag strip when my mom went into labor in the stands. Off to the hospital they went Open Exhaust all the way to the hospital. I actually have 8 mm of Mario Andretti winning his first race at Langhorne. You want to every right until the track closing in 1970 it's always great memories
I used to live in Fairless Hills and used to go to the races at Langhorne regularly. I was at the race in 1960 when Jimmy Bryan got killed. Treacherous dirt track!
I lived in the Junewood section of Levittown, a few miles from the track. We would ride our bikes up and plead with the Infield Guard to let us across the track and into the infield. We would do wheelies on our bikes down that funky drag strip they had in the dead center of the infield. Before one race we actually had the crowd cheering. It was nuts, every time there were no cars on the track those gates opened and folks flooded back and forth. We would also sneak through the woods, wait for the mounted security patrol to go by, climb two barrier chain link fences and crawl right up to the guard rail. There was nothing quite like a field of Indy cars blowin' by at 150 mph a few feet away. We played it safe though and would tie bandanas over our mouth and noses. Its a damn KMart now.
I guess I was a bit luckier...my memories go back to when my dad sat me on his shoulders the whole race...don't think we missed one! Great times! ...for years I'd pass there in disbelief it was gone for another shopping center...the marker on the side of Route 1 by McCafferty, was a respectful and appreciated gesture to those of us who won't forget it!
AFTER THE SPEEDWAY CLOSED MY FREINDS AND I WERE DRIVING PAST IT IN MY 1964 CHRYSLER NEW YORKER. WE NOTICED THAT THERE WERE NO GATES BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE. WE SLOWLEY DROVE DOWN A DRIVEWAY TO THE ENTRANCE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND LOOKED AROUND THERE WAS NOBODY GUARDING IT. WE GOT BACK IN THE CAR AND DROVE 3 LAPS AROUND THE RACE TRACK. IT WAS IN VERY BAD SHAPE BY THAT TIME. I WAS ABLE TO GO AROUND IT AVOIDING POT HOLES AND PORTIONS THAT WERE TOTALLY MISSING AT 80MPH. IT WAS A VERY COOL EXPERINCE I THINK I WAS MORE THAN LIKLEY TO HAVE DRIVEN THE LAST 3 LAPS EVER ON THE SPEEDWAY.
Being a huge racing fan that goes to pennsbury, I would more than likely spend my life there if it was still around. Like Trenton, very unique and famous. With both gone after the 70's to be dumb malls and stores(along with Nazareth speedway which isn't far and is dead and held by idiots that want to make a mall out of it also) racing is dead in the bucks/mercer county areas. Englishtown, New Egypt, and grandview are the only real tracks I could go to enjoy myself as a racing fan/driver.
I remember when I was a kid I would sit on the roof my friend Mark Flaherty's garage and we hear these racer from about a mile away and they also had biplanes dogfighting above the track you can hear the machine guns going off and everything it was a good time back then house from Fairless Hills. Still is. I want to give a shout out to my brother-in-law Paul Heavener and which was big into this racing
Speedways like this NEED to be remembered...too many good times for too many people. Talk to the old guys in your neighborhoods and they'll tell you like it was...good times every weekend in the summer.
Thanks for posting this!
I was born in 67 in cobalt ridge,youngest of 9.i remember my older brothers and sisters talking about the racetrack all the time.the good ole days of levittown/langhorne.Glad to see the memories.Thank you sir.
Grew up at Langhorne speed way to during the 60s. Story Goes in My father was racing 8th mile drag strip when my mom went into labor in the stands. Off to the hospital they went Open Exhaust all the way to the hospital. I actually have 8 mm of Mario Andretti winning his first race at Langhorne. You want to every right until the track closing in 1970 it's always great memories
RIP Langhorne, 50 years ago today was the last ever race held there.
I also grew up with that racetrack. There wasn't a summer weekend without the roar of the cars. What memories!
I heard the roar every weekend, grew up in Quincy Hallow. Snuck in and watch from the trees, Mario Andretti and the Uncer brothers.
I used to live in Fairless Hills and used to go to the races at Langhorne regularly. I was at the race in 1960 when Jimmy Bryan got killed. Treacherous dirt track!
Wow tysm. What a gift. My fathet was the car 27 Gabriel Migliori
I lived in the Junewood section of Levittown, a few miles from the track. We would ride our bikes up and plead with the Infield Guard to let us across the track and into the infield. We would do wheelies on our bikes down that funky drag strip they had in the dead center of the infield. Before one race we actually had the crowd cheering. It was nuts, every time there were no cars on the track those gates opened and folks flooded back and forth. We would also sneak through the woods, wait for the mounted security patrol to go by, climb two barrier chain link fences and crawl right up to the guard rail. There was nothing quite like a field of Indy cars blowin' by at 150 mph a few feet away. We played it safe though and would tie bandanas over our mouth and noses. Its a damn KMart now.
Great memories, thanks
I remember my uncle riding me around on a mini bike in the infield then crossing the road and zipping through Reedman’s car lot.
At least Langhorne got a sign. Trenton is forgotten.
I guess I was a bit luckier...my memories go back to when my dad sat me on his shoulders the whole race...don't think we missed one! Great times! ...for years I'd pass there in disbelief it was gone for another shopping center...the marker on the side of Route 1 by McCafferty, was a respectful and appreciated gesture to those of us who won't forget it!
I miss it, no better racing on earth anywhere, we all miss langhorne
I just found out about this track 2 years ago when I seen the sign at the Ford dealership when I bought a truck.
It's amazing after all these years that land that this Speedway was on is still bearing there's no buildings it's just a field overgrown with weeds.
AFTER THE SPEEDWAY CLOSED MY FREINDS AND I WERE DRIVING PAST IT IN MY 1964 CHRYSLER NEW YORKER. WE NOTICED THAT THERE WERE NO GATES BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE. WE SLOWLEY DROVE DOWN A DRIVEWAY TO THE ENTRANCE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND LOOKED AROUND THERE WAS NOBODY GUARDING IT. WE GOT BACK IN THE CAR AND DROVE 3 LAPS AROUND THE RACE TRACK. IT WAS IN VERY BAD SHAPE BY THAT TIME. I WAS ABLE TO GO AROUND IT AVOIDING POT HOLES AND PORTIONS THAT WERE TOTALLY MISSING AT 80MPH. IT WAS A VERY COOL EXPERINCE I THINK I WAS MORE THAN LIKLEY TO HAVE DRIVEN THE LAST 3 LAPS EVER ON THE SPEEDWAY.
Being a huge racing fan that goes to pennsbury, I would more than likely spend my life there if it was still around. Like Trenton, very unique and famous. With both gone after the 70's to be dumb malls and stores(along with Nazareth speedway which isn't far and is dead and held by idiots that want to make a mall out of it also) racing is dead in the bucks/mercer county areas. Englishtown, New Egypt, and grandview are the only real tracks I could go to enjoy myself as a racing fan/driver.
I remember when I was a kid I would sit on the roof my friend Mark Flaherty's garage and we hear these racer from about a mile away and they also had biplanes dogfighting above the track you can hear the machine guns going off and everything it was a good time back then house from Fairless Hills. Still is. I want to give a shout out to my brother-in-law Paul Heavener and which was big into this racing
If I remember right, in the '60s weren't Sportsman cars one notch below "regular" Modifieds?
A lot of lives wee lost there. Don't like seeing tracks close, but glad that one is gone!
Spent a few fall Sundays watching Dutch Hoag win a couple of these.
Guy Wright great racing . I was there. mark trench.
Look at the de Soto spd way . Ol cleeter is refurbished
is that Levittown right off the backstretch?
Highland park section of Levittown.
3:39 for my reference :)