Unnamed drag strip (Gallup)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Sponsored by the Gallup police department
- Raced
- 1960
- State
- New Mexico
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A public road
- First race
- late October 1960
- Location
- Highway 66, eleven miles east of Gallup
- People
- Coachmen car club, organizer (1960)
- Gallup police department, sponsor (1960)
- Elevation
- 6,750 ft (2,057 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.51872, -108.54991
The Coachmen car club started racing on Highway 66, eleven miles east of Gallup, in late October 1960. Its fifth race, on Sunday, November 27, was the first with trophies. The Gallup police department sponsored the races.