Andalusia Dragway

Rex Goodson built this strip on the Ace Goodson farm, three miles north of the Andalusia Airport. The first race ran on April 21, 1963, and Goodson booked Billy “Big Deal” Jacobs to bring his two Super Stock ‘63 Dodge “Mountain Goats” cars. More than 6,000 people lined both sides of the strip that day while Sol Stewart called the race from the timing tower. In the early days spectators watched from their cars along the side of the track. Racing ran every Sunday, with prize money in Super Stock and trophies in every class. Lights went in, and the first night race was held on July 27, 1963.

Don Nicholson raced there a couple of times in 1964. R. D. Helms of Crestview took top eliminator in his 1957 Chevy at a September 1968 race. The Swedish magazine Start & Strip included the track in a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips. Hoover Dean was killed there in 1967. Over Labor Day weekend in 1977, Malcolm Lee, 30, of Montgomery, died on a Saturday night while testing his race car, when it went out of control and hit a utility pole.

Old Dragstrip Road runs north and south from the hamlet of Harmony, three miles east of Andalusia. Just southeast of Harmony, Orchard Road branches east off it and leads straight to the old strip, which still shows up in aerial photos. Not much else is known about the track.