Shelby Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Ted Austin made exhibition runs in Walt Arfons's Mercury Cyclone jet car in 1967
- Raced
- ca. 1967-73
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Surface
- Paved
- Location
- Behind (west of) the Hurst Jaws of Life building on North Post Road
- Elevation
- 908 ft (277 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.30399, -81.48910
A local racer recalled that this paved track opened in the 1960s and lasted only a few years. Newspaper coverage has turned up only for 1967 and 1968, though it probably opened earlier. On Friday night, August 25, 1967, Ted Austin made exhibition runs in Walt Arfons’s Mercury Cyclone jet car. Shelby racers went to a benefit race at Mooresville Drag Strip in September 1968. The strip sat directly behind, to the west of, the Hurst Jaws of Life building on North Post Road. It was a separate track from Shadyside Dragway. Its exact years aren’t known.
