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The City of North Richland Hills Texas has released plans for a memorial plaza honoring this historic drag strip that once billed itself "The Motor Racing Capital of the Great Southwest". Spent many a high school Saturday night there, mostly in the dirt field you can see in the first pic (courtesy of Pinterest), no admission to get there, lots of cars to critique and admire. Not much left as you can see from second screen grab from Google Maps. Third is artist rendering from City of North Richland Hills website
Mike Pearson

[Simple Man]

Looks like a bunch of cookie cutter houses.

['ol Pinion head]

Originally Posted by Simple Man

Looks like a bunch of cookie cutter houses.

Not sure I'd call them cookie cutter, many of them do look like nee zero lot line builds. Unsure of how old that edition is, but the high pitched roof, high bricked facade, multi roof area homes of the region were for many years known as "new Dallas style". That was late 80's, 90's up into the 00's term here north several hour drive. Lot of brick, quite a few with "dry stack" features of quarried stone around the front entry door, garage doors. Usually, in such a development, there will be several builders with numerous floorpans/designs, & there will be numerous homes that were built custom features, not just Spec homes.

['ol Pinion head]

Both of my '71 233 HO cars saw some action on the strip in the early 70's at Green Valley.
Would have been nice to have been a liitle older & lived in the early metroplex & experienced Green Valley myself. Believe, Green Valley shut down mid 80's.

[Skip Fix]

Never raced one of my cars, went to a lot of races even road races with Dad in the mid 60s. Buddy with a 454 70 Camaro with welded spiders in the 8.2 blew it out there with slicksI'll post some pictures later. One of a firey fueler burnout form the bridge!

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Originally Posted by 'ol Pinion head

Not sure I'd call them cookie cutter, many of them do look like nee zero lot line builds. Unsure of how old that edition is, but the high pitched roof, high bricked facade, multi roof area homes of the region were for many years known as "new Dallas style". That was late 80's, 90's up into the 00's term here north several hour drive. Lot of brick, quite a few with "dry stack" features of quarried stone around the front entry door, garage doors. Usually, in such a development, there will be several builders with numerous floorpans/designs, & there will be numerous homes that were built custom features, not just Spec homes.

The small town of Smithfield was annexed by the much larger North Richland Hills in 1960, but maintained much of its rural feel well into the 90's. Only thing remaining bearing the Smithfield name is the cemetery dating from at least 1870.
Most of the homes visible in that second picture were built between 2006-2008. It was a desirable neighbor hood at the time, but population growth continued to require more houses concentrated on smaller lot sizes.

[Skip Fix]

Here are a few from a big night event.

[Skip Fix]

And Gene Snow Charger funny car burnout

[turbo69bird]

Don’t know the area but am I understanding it right, they got rid of the drag strip, but want to commemorate it with a monument?
Why don’t they just build a drag strip if it was so wonderful?
We have places that closed here, mainly airports and they just sit there doing nothing because some liberal turd bag didn’t want to hear noise or wanted a bird sanctuary . Meanwhile now you can’t even keep you boat on a mooring because the birds devastate it w dead fish and bird crap . As usual a great job by stupid people w no hobbies and ideas that are great on paper if you don’t actually look into their affects .

Kind of like the stupid new coast guard approved EPA gas containers w no vents that are made to blow up like a balloon and spew gas all over when you open the cap or it blows out an O ring Morons.
And yes this post is relevant to the topic. It’s to keep people from closing MORE drag strips airports etc and putting a rock with a plaque there and thinking they did good.

Especially since most get closed under the guise of noise , when w electric cars there won’t be any noise soon

[ftwmlp]

Originally Posted by turbo69bird

Don’t know the area but am I understanding it right, they got rid of the drag strip, but want to commemorate it with a monument?
Why don’t they just build a drag strip if it was so wonderful?

You are correct, the drag strip was closed for many years, city finally decided to let developers have at the land around, but kept only a small green space with the remnants of the staging area until deciding to dedicate the monument. Housing all around as far as the eye can see generate a butt load of money for city coffers.

[Verdoro 68]

Grew up in the area, but never knew about this track. By the time I got to driving age, Motorplex was the place. Neat history. Appreciate the pics, Skip.

Just like DIMS, there’s no way this track could have survived the growth of the metroplex. Time marches on.