Why is ATCO Dragway closing?
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A staple in South Jersey for decades is screeching to a halt. Life in the fast lane for the ATCO Dragway appears to be no more. the track announced it is abruptly closing but the big question is why? Ryan Hughes reports.
No one better be surprised if Street racing or takeovers in the area increases.
And then they complain about street racing when they pull shit like this. It was a good and safe place for people to enjoy cars and not cause trouble.
So sad the only place us kids had left to go to these days that was actually a good and safe time
How am I now supposed to live my life a quarter mile at a time?
This is so bizarre. And now almost into 2024, and STILL no answers. The people deserve some kind of response!
The fact that the owner said no comment and asked the reporters to leave is odd. It tells me that he sold the property to people who are up to no good and doesn't want any heat for it. Expect some eyesore to pop up there soon.
a company bought Atco out not sure what the company does. no respect for tradition anymore
I feel your pain I have attended races in Baytown TX for over 30 years and then sold for housing !
That's messed up ive been to Baytown track it was a big track and had big nhra events it was one of a kind I liked the big tower stand all for houses their enough houses not enough strips they wonder why people street race.
Someone needs to save it its a historic track
Someone should buy the dragstrip then
Big mistake ,you should have put condos around the complex just like New Jersey Motorsports Park.
why do kids just play on their phones? because there is nothing else to do
No reason, no comment. You might force a man out of his hotrod, but you cant force the hotrod out of the man.
Was that Finnegan in blasphemy in the beginning 😂
I wish the pinelands commission would let Wharton Forest reclaim it (if we're truly serious about the environment like Dems claim)NO MORE DISCUSTING HOUSES!
There is something they are not telling us
Take it to the streets
Then they will have no choice to open it back up is that the only one in that area
Capitalism greed . Screw the rich
Ehh, greed has only part to do with it. Between that, complaints about noise and a lack of infrastructure for racers and fans as time goes on, more and more racetracks are going to die.
Stock footage from Hot Rod Drag Week 2019 with Mike Finnegan's Blasphemi vs David Newbern's Attempted Murder Nova!
There gonna put a mall there .
Thats lame
That would explain why the owner was so nasty to reporters! He doesn't want any heat for it.
Sad ME my Father and Bob Spina used to go there in mid 70,s thru mid 80,s Pete hill with his Supercharged Knuckle Head Ray Price Marrion Owen's Elmer Trett Terry Vance orient express Jack omaly. BOB LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM US IN BRENTWOOD NY SUFFOLK COUNTY BEST TIMES EVER IT WAS SO SIMPLE A FORD 100 WITH A CAP
ATCO 🏁
Sold out. Just like they did in Flemington . Ending decades of dirt track modified racing. This is the corporate America we have to live with while they get rich and us racing fans have to pay the consequences 🙄
🍀Got er done 😎✌️
well that told about zero on why it happened : /
They are going to build a commercial property there and storage facility.
Copart has been buying all the dragway
SOLD TO AN ANONYMOUS BUYER AND WILL NOT BE A DRAGSTRIP.