Stan,
If I tell my Dad that, he'll drive up from Florida just to see it !!!
Hugh Barber
>Hugh,
> A couple of years ago, I was in DC on business and having read and heard
of
>Marlboro, I drove out there to see where it had been. To my surprise, I found
it
>still intact but overgrown and broken up. It seemed to be located in low
>ground,
so
>maybe that has prevented development.
>
>Stan Vann
>
>Hugh Barber wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> My father raced a 1958 Corvette w/a retrofitted IRS in C-Modified at Marlboro
in
>> the early/mid '60s. Apparently it was a very popular track in its day.
I think
>> that there is a shopping center located where the track was.
>>
>> Hugh Barber
>>
>> JXLmail@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> > listeners,
>> >
>> > I would appreciate listeners on both lists if they would share experiences
>> > they had racing during the 60s at the SCCA track located at Marlboro
>> > Maryland. I bring this up because often when I have displayed my car at
a
>> > show or out for a ride I have run into people that raced at Marlboro and
>> > told fantastic stories. It seemed that many people raced the family's daily
>> > driver.. with some temporary modifications applied in the parking lot of
the
>> > track. It was also a location that well to do kids races. As I understand
it
>> > Penski stated that "if you could race at Marlboro you could race at any
>> > track". A surprising number of people raced the track. I would guess that
>> > this was because it was located near a major metropolitan area and
>military
>> > bases?
>> >
>> > Jim L.
>> > 56 BN2
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