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Greg Knapp raced his Knapp Bros “REBEL YELL” at Detroit Dragway. Detroit Dragway was, and is like most drag strips they need their local racers to keep them going. They count on the local racers to be there every week to race, and support their local track. Well Greg Knapp was one of those local racers. Greg raced his 1970 Chevy Chevelle, the Knap Bros REBEL YELL at Detroit and won many races & awards. Thanks Greg for help making Detroit Dragway One of the top places racers wanted to race. You can find Greg on our Detroit Dragway Facebook…
Dick Loehr Raced At Detroit Dragway Here is just a few highlights of Dick Loehr’s racing career. We place a couple of links that will give you much more information oh his career, and his hot rods. Richard “Dick” Loehr (1943 – 2008) was a Michigan Hot Rodder and raced at Detroit Dragway. He started his racing career as a driver with the Champion Ford racing team. It started in 1961 with the Michigan based Ford racing team. Throughout his racing career Dick won hundreds of races, and even twenty six national events. When Ford pulled out left racing…
Don Schumacher raced at Detroit Dragway. He started racing in the early 60’s and retired from racing in 1974. In 1998 he established DSR (Don Schumacher Racing) DSR now has a number of funny cars & dragsters that race at every NHRA race. You can visit the DSR’s website using this link https://www.shoeracing.com/about/don-schumacher Through out his career he raced at many of the top dragstrips, one of which was Detoit Dragway. As of most of the great drag racers of yesterday there is a lot online about them On Detroit Dragway’s website we are just highlighting them, along with the…
Perry Wyatt Jr. Raced At Detroit Dragway We’ve all hear the expressions “Like father like son” or “The apple don’t fall far from the tree” Likewise Perry Jr. followed in his dad’s love of cars & drag racing, especially at Detroit Dragway. Perry spent his younger years at Detroit Dragway with his father where his passion for drag racing & his love of Detroit Dragwy were forever embedded. He also ran a business at the Double D. Perry raced his 69 Yellow Camaro at his home track Detroit Dragway, but also raced at Milan Dragway. Thanks to everyone that help…
Gratiot Auto Supply If you grew up any where close to the Detroit are you knew about & probably purchased something from Gratiot Auto Supply. I bought my first part from them, a set of baby moon hub caps with the beauty rings. Gratiot Auto Supplies owner Angelo Giampetroni has done so much for hot rodders every where, and especially for us in the Detroit area. He gave us some of the best hot rods in drag racing, and who can remember the beautiful Linda Vaughn that sponsored Gratiot Aut.. Be sure to visit the Gratiot Auto Supply’s FB page…
Golden Commandos Raced At Detroit Dragway Going to Detroit Dragway in the 60’s was so much fun. As a MOPAR lover my two favorite cars were the Golden Commandos & Color Me Gone. I even had the Plastic Models I put together for these two hot rods. Yes the 60’s were a very special time for drag racing. Thanks to the Golden Commandos for giving us all these great drag racing memories. We are very lucky to have one of the original members of the Golden Commandos. Join the group here -> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1166285873413298 “The Golden Commando’s drag race club was…
Jay Howell a Detroiter accomplished so much in drag racing & building hot rods. There are lots of great articles on Jay, that we thought we would link them so you can see his story from the people that interviewed him. Detroit Dragway is proud to say Jay is an active member of our Facebook group. Here-> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1166285873413298 Check out this article by Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor. “Not only did he build or have a hand in building some of the most famous vehicles to traverse the quarter-mile on two or four wheels, but he also drove…
Locals Race At DD. One of our FB friends Debi Shepard has shared some of her photos taken at Detroit Dragway. Thanks to Debi we can relive the memories and the good times at the Dirty D and the local racers that made DD a great track. DD had great support from the area’s racers. If you have any photos you would like to share, just email them to us. Here are a few of her photos. You can click the photo for a larger image.
Here are a few photos I took at the 2013 Detroit Dragway® reunion. Not all the hot rods at this event raced at the DD, but there were a few. Detroit was last open for racing in 1997. It was a good time and lots of good drag racing. To see a larger image just click the photo.
Roger Lindamood & Color Me Gone Raced At Detroit Dragway. One of the best know & loved drivers & hot rods at Detroit Dragway was Roger Lindamood & Color Me Gone. They were one of the track’s favorite. There is so much written about this racing duo, Here is a link to the NHRA’s story about Roger https://www.nhra.com/news/2018/color-him-gone-remembering-roger-lindamood If you have photos you would like to share with us you can email them here ernie@detroitdragway.com or detroitdragway.com@hotmail.com Here are a few of DetroitDragway.com’s photos of Color Me Gone.