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2011 Dover Dragstrip Nostalgia Drags by Jack Feige The third annual Dover Drag strip Nostalgia Drags at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon N.Y. This year the event was moved from Island Dragway in New Jersey to Lebanon Valley Dragway, for those who don’t know the history of Dover drag strip it opened on May 14,1961 and was open thru 1976 when it closed. Located on route twenty two in Wingdale NY. Like many strips in the East it had its share of booking the greats of the sport, Garlits, Ivo, Prudhomme and the "Golden Greek" just to name a few. It ran under a few sanctioning bodies over the years but sadly like Lions, O.C.I.R. and Conn. Dragway it became just a memory. But the neat part about Dover was its weekly racer’s and people who were a part of it. They keep its memory alive, a yearly reunion is held and the past three years a Nostalgia drag race has been held. This year besides the Dover cars the North East Gasser association and N.E.T.O (North East Timing Organization) filled out a very nice program. Also six injected nostalgia funny cars were featured. On Saturday a license run by Ron Deedy gave everyone a scare when the throttle on his ‘68 Firebird bodied funny hung open on the burn out. Ron’s car took a left turn into the Christmas tree, wrapping it self around it, cutting the body into pieces and landing upside down. The chassis sliding along the concrete center divider coming to rest where the Lebanon track crew did a great job of getting twenty year old Ron out of the car unhurt, I am sure shaken but none the worse after a pretty scary crash. Once racing resumed the crowd was treated to an afternoon of wheel standing gassers. Nostalgia comp eliminator featuring front motored dragsters, altereds and door slammers. Stockers, Modified production and even a couple of factory experimental cars gave a feel of a time gone by. On Saturday two classes were held Dover Weekend Non Electronic, Jeff Heppner took the win over Jim Schmidbauer. And in Dover Weekend Electronic Bill Arpine edged out Grant Nichols for the win. These classes were designed to give something old, (non elec.) and something new, were allowed limited new technology. Sunday arrived with the weather clear but the forecast of a threat of rain in the afternoon. The rain did arrive like predicted, halting the race activity for awhile but after a track drying session, racing resumed. And the third Dover Nostalgia drags were in the books. Page 22 The Winners were as followed N.E.T.O. Comp. Joe Morrison in his stretched ‘48 Fiat, N.E.T.O. Nostalgia J.Kenly ‘72 Dodge, Dover 4 speed Johnny Reale ‘66 Chevy, Dover Comp. Austin Lobban Spitzer dragster, Dover Vintage (pre-1976) Frank Ware Jr. ‘71 Chevy, Dover New-Post 1976 Jim Gagnon. This was a neat run off ‘Dover King of the Hill" Austin Lobban`s dragster over Frank Ware’s Chevy, Dover Motorcycle Ron Blake. The event had a special class for the ladies "Powder Puff" won by Karyl Bell over Jamie Bleakley, which wrapped it up for this year. On a personal note, I was in high school when I visited Dover, a friend campaigned a C/S Camaro flat towing it behind his Moms station wagon, yeah flat towing pretty scary by today’s standards, but we were not alone it was pretty common back in the early seventies. It was pure and simple, a tower, some grandstands, two lanes of asphalt, lots of great cars! A very cool place, it had its own personality. I would like to thank Lebanon Valley Dragway for its hospitality and the volunteers who made this a neat show to go see and a BIG Thank you to the Dover gang. They worked hard to make this happen. If you would like to find out more about Dover Drag strip, check out doverdragstrip.com join the forum lots to look at and read. So I hope the pictures round out the story and give a feel of what it was like that weekend, enjoy! Till next time Jack Feige
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