Langley Speedway Racing Program.

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Object Description

Object Name

Program

Object ID

2015.039.688

Title

Langley Speedway Racing Program.

Date

1970.

Description

1970 Langley Speedway Racing Program. The cover has a photo of cars racing past a crowd from the perspective of the ground, advertisements and racing radio frequency. The contents consist of 28 pages of racing information, advertisements, schedules, information about the Speedway and racing news. Two lists, on pages 20 and 22, has been filled out with driver times. The back cover has advertisements. This copy is identical to other versions of the 1970 program except for pages 13-16, which contain different versions of articles and photographs.

Other versions of this program are 2015.039.048 and 2015.039.689 to 2015.039.692.

People/Subject

Langley Speedway

Langley Speedway opened on June 13th, 1965, under original owner Craig Frazer. In 1969 the Vancouver-Fraser Park District (now the Greater Vancouver Regional District) bought the track and surrounding area with the intent to create a park. Frazer obtained a 10-year lease and continued to run the track until Gordon Hemrich took over in 1977. After the 10-year lease expired in 1979 the track came under increasing pressure from local governments. The lease periods became shorter and shorter with each renewal and there were more restrictions on numbers of dates, hours of operation, etc. The Lower Mainland Oval Racing Association took over operation of the track in 1980 and changed the name to Action Raceway. Finally, at the end of the 1984 season (September 15th), the racers were refused a new lease and the track closed.

A wide variety of cars ran at Langley over the years. In the 1960's there were Early Late Models, "A" Modifeds, "B" Modifieds and "C" Modifieds. During the 1970's there were Limited Super Stocks, Claimers, Open Competition and Modified Sportsman. In the final years there were Late Models, Super Stocks, Street Stocks and Bombers.

Numerous touring series also stopped at Langley. The NASCAR Winston West Series appeared a number of times. Hershel McGriff won the 150 lap races in 1971 and 1972, Ron Eaton won the 100 lapper in 1978 and there was another race on July 18, 1981. The NASCAR Late Model Sportsman series appeared regularly in the mid-1970's. There were also Canadian American Modified Racing Association (CAMRA) events and the International Drivers' Challenge (IDC),

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