Hitchcock NAS Blimp Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Mecom tested his sports racers there, including an original GS Corvette
- Raced
- mid-1950s
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Location
- Former Navy blimp base at Hitchcock
- People
- John W. Mecom, owner (1949)
- Elevation
- 19 ft (6 m)
- Coordinates
- 29.32885, -95.04496
This was a World War II base for lighter-than-air craft (blimps). John W. Mecom bought it in 1949. One old racer, who went there many times, said the first cars to race there were Mecom’s own sports racers, which he tested on the base, including one of the original GS Corvettes. By the time this racer was there in the mid-1950s, they were drag racing.
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