Unnamed drag strip (Jasper)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Set up by a club of 25 teenage boys with Chamber of Commerce backing
- Raced
- 1956
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- The exact spot was never found. If it's on the map, the pin only marks the general area.
- First race
- September 30, 1956
- Location
- One mile from Jasper on the Parrish Highway
- People
- Tommy Pierce, car club president (1956)
No one has pinned down where this strip was yet.
On July 24, 1956, twenty-five teenage boys in Jasper met to form a car club and start a drag strip, and elected Tommy Pierce president. With backing from the Chamber of Commerce, they set up a strip one mile from Jasper on the Parrish Highway and held their first race on September 30, 1956. Racing may have continued into 1957, but that isn’t confirmed. A 1962 news article mentioned that the Lancers car club had bought land near Jasper for a drag strip, but nothing more about it has turned up.
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