Unnamed drag strip (Piedmont)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- National Guard engineers graded the site and built concession stands
- Raced
- 1958
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- On the site today
- No trace visible on 2015 aerial photos
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Track
- 1/4 mile racing on a half-mile strip (planned)
- Surface
- Probably dirt
- Location
- Two miles north of Piedmont, just off the Centre Highway
- People
- Throttle Kings hot rod club, builder (1958)
- Piedmont Jaycees, helped build (1958)
- Elevation
- 689 ft (210 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.95259, -85.61794
In March 1958 the Throttle Kings hot rod club, with help from the Piedmont Jaycees, started building a drag strip two miles north of Piedmont just off the Centre Highway. Plans called for a strip forty feet wide and half a mile long, room for quarter-mile racing. The National Guard’s 145th Engineer Company did the grading and built concession stands. Work was still going in July 1958, when the club held a car wash to help pay for the strip and made $37.50 washing 75 cars. Whether the strip was ever finished isn’t known. A 1965 aerial photo suggests it was probably dirt, and 2015 aerial photos show no trace of it.
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