First Drag strip visit

Around 1974 or so, my friends and I used to ride our bikes about a mile and a half to Kansas City International Raceway (KCIR) and watch the races through the chain link fence. We could hear the funny cars running from our houses and it was like the Siren's song calling us. Evel Knievel even jumped there one time.

I raced my first car, a 71 Duster we dubbed The Ruster, there during high school. I took my first born there in the early nineties. Unfortunately, the strip was closed after a land developer with ties to the city council built a subdivision overlooking the track that had been there for 30 years.