Nauvoo Drag Strip
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Raced
- 1965-68
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Location
- Just northeast of Nauvoo
- People
- Kermit Dodd, builder and incorporator (1965)
- Elevation
- 608 ft (185 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.99974, -87.47932
Kermit Dodd built this strip and filed incorporation papers for it on May 8, 1965. The Swedish magazine Start & Strip listed it as Nauvoo Drag Strip in a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips. A 1966 aerial photo shows what looks like a drag strip just northeast of Nauvoo.
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