Dixie-Southland Drag Strip (Montgomery)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1963-?
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Remnants visible in the woods on aerial photos, west of Gorman Park
- Track
- about 1,000 feet (track no more than 2,500 feet total)
- Location
- On Wetumpka Highway across from the former Gunter Air Force Base Annex, along the west side of today's Gorman Park
- People
- James Kohn, owner and operator (1963)
- Helen Kohn, incorporator (1963)
- Thomas Kohn, incorporator (1963)
- Elevation
- 208 ft (64 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.41493, -86.24170
Helen, James and Thomas Kohn filed incorporation papers for this strip on May 24, 1963, and James Kohn owned and ran it. It was on Wetumpka Highway across from the former Gunter Air Force Base Annex. Traces of the old strip, running up through the woods along the west side of today’s Gorman Park, show on aerial photos. The name Dixie-Southland comes from a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips in the Swedish magazine Start & Strip. Cars raced over about 1,000 feet, and the whole track was no more than 2,500 feet long. It ran south to north, which is easy to see from the starting-line rubber marks on 1972 aerial photos. When it closed hasn’t been found.
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