Hustler's Dragway (Glendive)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1969-82
- State
- Montana
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Ball diamonds and commercial businesses
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Last race
- May 15, 1982
- Track
- 4,500-foot runway
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Closed Glendive airport, northwest-southeast runway
- People
- Hustlers Car Club, operator (1969-1982)
- Bob McPherson, strip manager (1970)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 2,107 ft (642 m)
- Coordinates
- 47.13165, -104.69296
The Hustlers Car Club of Glendive held drag races now and then on the 4,500-foot northwest-southeast runway of the closed Glendive airport. A race on May 17, 1970 drew 100 racers and 2,300 spectators and paid $835 to 11 winners. It was NHRA-sanctioned in 1970, with Bob McPherson as strip manager. The last race was May 15, 1982. The city ended the club’s five-year lease after approving a special improvement district on the city-owned land, and ball diamonds and businesses now cover the old airport.
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