Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Billboard covered auto racing!


Well at least it did for a couple years. All part of the "fairgrounds" portion of their showbiz publication.

So Digney Speedway made it in there once that I've found back in 1948. The furor over the announcement that the hot rods (track roadsters) were scheduled to race there (at the track that the midget guys had worked so hard to get opened!) seems to have been real. Down in Seattle at Aurora Speedway the same trouble was brewing. Things eventually got smoothed over and midget racers like Shorty Templeman and Bob Gregg raced both midgets and hot rods and even moved over to the hard tops. They raced for the money, that was their allegiance.

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