Own Your Own Dragstrip???

[BRIAN]

Just browsing commercial RE on EBAY and came across this. Damn property is cheap outside of NY metro area. $750,000.00 buys it???



http://cgi.ebay.com/RACING-FACILITY-...QQcmdZViewItem


Hope link works? Get a couple guys together and have your own track!!

[Munster]

It would be great to own a track. But I think the reallity is you would be opening a can of worms on that one.

[LS1NOVA]

Check into the insurance then see how cheap it is. $750k is a lot to just use it yourself.

[Munster]

Check into the insurance then see how cheap it is. $750k is a lot to just use it yourself.

Thats where I was goin..

[Jim Nilsen]

There are a few housing development corporations in my area that the owners have very large car collections. Some of the cars in those collections are valued at more than the price of that property. I could easily see that with the drainage pond and enough room to build 4 or 5 houses allowed by the zoning board that they could easily turn it into a small gated group that could have it for their own fun. If the zoning and the FAA were to allow it to be used as a runway the odds of someone buying it for themselves and using their abilities to finance and zone their way to the ultimate goal, this is a good price and could possibly even be a good overall investment. I have seen these people invest in worse decisions that seemd smarter to start with and turned them to bankruptcy.

If I had millions I would buy it just to be able to move in and start playing immediately and then see if someone might like to privately share.

[rocketman]

I'm trying to buy a dirt circle track in my area.. I have always wanted to try it, as a driver I think that gives me a bonus.

[ADaughen]

Just browsing commercial RE on EBAY and came across this. Damn property is cheap outside of NY metro area. $750,000.00 buys it???



http://cgi.ebay.com/RACING-FACILITY-...QQcmdZViewItem


Hope link works? Get a couple guys together and have your own track!!

A couple of guys did that with Quaker City Raceway in Ohio...

It isn't being managed well from what I have heard.

Insurance is expensive, too.

How many people do you have to have run, at $25/night, in a year to pay for upkeep, utilities, insurance, etc?

[Jim Nilsen]

A couple of guys did that with Quaker City Raceway in Ohio...

It isn't being managed well from what I have heard.

Insurance is expensive, too.

How many people do you have to have run, at $25/night, in a year to pay for upkeep, utilities, insurance, etc?

Just think if it wasn't open to the public and you had friends that wanted to buy in and be on the books as partners? Liability is shared , insurance would be less, track time would be plentiful, you could have racing parties, etc.

If John Travolta can afford to have an airport at his house, surely there is someone who would look at $750 k as adeal of the day and wouldn't even worry about the cost vs fun factor and bragging rights.

I think maybe it is too cheap for what it would cost to build it and the bragging rights for the cost might make someone who has the money look like they were buying some cheap dragstrip instead of one they could really tout as a status symbol.

Then again the one thing that might kill the whole idea is the neighborhood. Location location location.

[SatisTraction]

that place is about an hour from me...... if i could own it

[David Clayton]

I worked for a drag strip here in SW Arkansas. We did Friday night fun drags with grudge raging it was fun but we didn't make much money. We had bracket racing on Saturday about as much fun as watching paint dry but we made a little more money. The really fun stuff, the heads up racing we made good money but OMG what a pain in the a$$. Some of the guys cry like babies. You have to have tech guys, track support and a bunch of goffers. These heads up races take months to plan and promote. I enjoyed them but was so relieved when they were over.
I was the track announcer and was responsible for rules on the heads up classes. The owner offered me the track before he sold out. My reply was "You should have never let me work here first. If you gave it to me I'd run cows on the property and stack hay in the tech shed."
He later sold it to a trucking company owner, he now probably wishes he had ran from it also.

[SatisTraction]

LOL. I heads up at a track in canton mississippi called the Junkyard and it is just like that!!!!

my last race went like this.

i drove 35 miles in my 91 mustang coupe. i pulled into the gate and let the air out of the rear tires. i busted out a low 6 second pass shakedown run on the motor. 10 minutes later a "tech" guy came over and told me i could not run in the street class due to my roll cage.

now who wants to do 130 mph without a cage in their car? i left and have not been back.

[go-fish]

A local guy, Richard Stevens, who builds some awesome chassis and other stuff just bought the track near Pensacola and will be relocating. The local track down here on the MS Gulf Coast is like alot of other tracks in small SE towns. Horrible tech, no safety, trashy.....
He is a renowned builder and racer and will do good. If your down that way look for a better track in P-cola. It is better than most down here and no doubt will improve twith Stevens ownership.

It's gotta be a headache though.