1984 Dirt Cup, Skagit Speedway

 From the June 16, 17 and 18, 1984 Bellingham Herald.

 

1984 Dirt Cup, Skagit Speedway

 From the June 14 and 15, 1984 Bellingham Herald.

 

more from the last CAMRA race, 1984

 From September 16 and 17, 1984 Idaho Statesman.

 

last CAMRA race, 1984

 From the September 14 and 15, 1984 Idaho Statesman.

1984 Action Raceway

 From the July 7, 1984 Vancouver Sun.

 

1984, Speedway, Cloverdale

 Program cover for the opening speedway motorcycle race for the 1984 season.

CAMRA, Spanaway Speedway, 1984

 From the April 30, 1984 Tacoma News Tribune.

1984 motorcycles, Westwood

 A tumble. From the June 18, 1984 Vancouver Province.

Skagit Speedway, 1984

Some photos from Racing Wheels issue July 11, 1984.

demolition derby

There used to be the demolition derby at the PNE. But not no more, we're more sophisticated than that. ;-)

a 1984 program from Westwood

Lifted this off the web. The vintage race at Westwood from 1984.

a bit more from the 1984 Westwood program

some more from the 1984 Westwood program

1984 Westwood program

Working on something else for someone else I scanned this:

last clippings I have for 1984 super modifieds in the northwest

Of course there are other sources beyond National Speed Sport News. But I've exhausted that file for the moment.

back to 1984 super modifieds

Don McLeod and Marty White doing well. Interesting to see Victoria's Billy Hitchcox in a super modified. He was better known as a NASCAR stock car racer in the northwest.

more super modified results from 1984

more 1984 super modified information from the US

A couple more reports from the National Speed Sport News.

1984 super modified racing

A few stories from Spanaway, WA, and elsewhere, 1984. Marty White from Kamloops, BC, did well as did US driver Don McLeod.

Langley let down

It has been pointed out that a lot of misinformation has been put out by opponents to the reopening of Langley Speedway. Like that it was not popular when it closed.

Really it's amazing how well it was still doing considering the one and two year leases it had to operate with after 1979 through to the end of 1984.

Here's a 1984 story on Langley.

The key line, for me anyway, is: The stocks have raced at Action Raceway (former Langley Speedway) in south Langley since 1965. It gets tougher each summer. For several years now, the Greater Vancouver Regional District threatens not to renew Action Raceway's one-year lease on the land in Campbell Valley Park. Track officials talk of an all-purpose racing site to accommodate the doomed sports car drivers (Westwood in Coquitlam closes next year), the homeless dragsters (Mission shut down fives years ago) and the edgy stock car enthusiasts. But politicians ears are deaf on the subject. There's no percentage in special interest groups especially ones as noisy as the stockers. So racing spectators tend to treat each race as the drivers do: as if it were their last.

(So Westwood lasted a bit longer than 1985 and Mission finally reopened as a drag strip along with accommodating the sports cars. But Langley was left swinging in the wind.)