This page is just a little scrap book of some pictures I found that I wanted to share.
Some of them I took, others are my fathers.
 

Kevin Collins heads down the front stretch at Lebanon Valley Speedway, NY.
This is one of my favorite pictures.
Kevin Hodge Photo

Sammy Swindell through one and two at the Valley.
Kevin Hodge Photo

 I am not sure who took this picture. It is of my favorite dirt modified drivers
If I remember correctly it was one I bought (or was bought for me) when I was kid
from the souvenir stand at Reading Fairgrounds PA.  I don't remember much
about Reading other than the countdown clock in the infield and some real good racing.

NOW  FOR YOU PAPYRUS NASCAR LEGENDS RACERS.......
Here are some pictures taken by my father, Howard Hodge
of the actual Thompson Speedway in Thompson CT.
You may notice a little difference in the real track and the track
in the sim. The track that comes with the game is modeled after the modern day track.

This picture is taken in 1963 from about the start finish line looking towards the first turn.
Notice there are no walls in the turns. Just big sand banks. There's a modified
somewhere in that cloud of dirt.

Another picture by my father of Richard Petty coming out of turn four at Thompson.
This was the Grand National race in the late '60s.

Check this out. The ticket stub from the race. Found this in one of my scrap books.
$6.00 and the race was on a Thursday night. Can you imagine paying $6.00
to go to a Winston Cup race today?

Another Howard Hodge picture. This one from 1976 of a super modified at the
end of the front stretch. You can see the sand banks in turns 3 and 4 in the background.
The infield had a smaller track built in it. That was used for pit road in the longer races.
The entrance to the pits is in the foreground of the picture.There was no wall and you exited
the track to the pits just before turn one. The entrance to thetrack was via
the road course that returned to the oval just after the second turn. Notice there are no
billboards in the turns or a scoreboard any where around the track.

That's it for now, there is more to come in the future.
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