I just turned 65.
Frankly, I’m not 100% certain where I made my first pass down the 1/4 mile.
But, I think it was that the already closed Glans Falls Dragway in upstate NY in 1978.
I was living in NJ at the time and used to spend time during the summer at Lake St. Catherine in Wells Vt.
I used to drive right by where the track was, but it wasn’t obvious from the road exactly where.
Somehow I had learned where it was, and one time driving by I looked to see if it could find it…….and I did.
The track itself was still there. Two separate lanes with a grass strip between them.
I rode down the length of one, then back up the other.
When I got back to the starting line I thought…..”why not”?