RIR Museum - Riverside International Raceway Museum - Been closed - Remembering

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Blitzman

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Heya HighBank and all. You ever go to the RIR Museum? Been shut down for a few years due to owner passing away. Shame.. I had met Doug and some others there years back. The place was HUGE! All the different cars, wow! I even got to check out the other part of building where they kept stuff that they had not gotten to yet and whatever else(by the building caretaker dude, forget his name). Very cool and personable guys.

When young I had been to the Raceway but really do not remember specifically.

You probably know already but Here is the Museum site: RIR Museum Site

Peace!
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Man, So many cars! Just about one or more of anything that would have normally run at RIR, and then some it seemed.
I have some pictures somewhere.
Donohue Javelins, etc... :0) This would have been there too probably if it was not bought by somebody else at auction: RIR Trans-Am Pace Car What a beauty!

DM had his head under the hood of a red(if I remember right) Maserati tuning it up when I met him., nice guy. My buddy did work on their building and got to know them well, and one day we made a run out there, glad I did.
I had looked it up for the address quite sometime back because I was going to share/Go To the place with some other buddies and found out what had happened not long before then.

Well, take care all!
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It was the last stronghold of a great track and a part of my life that brought me here. I'll be heading over to the old site of RIR in just a little bit today.
 
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It was the last stronghold of a great track and a part of my life that brought me here. I'll be heading over to the old site of RIR in just a little bit today.
Wow really? Cool! Yeah we had many great tracks that have vanished just in California as well as other places. Earnhardt's Lost Speedways, watched part of one of those, cool: E. Jr's Lost Speedways. Oh Yeah, Tigg posted about that.. Yeah he's got it! :) Would like to tour his backyard LOL. Losing a car in your own Backyard LOL.
My step dad raced Drags in mid to late sixties, he got to know people like Don Prudhomme... Don Garlits... Lou Gasparelli, I remember going with him to Lou's place when real young a few times, remember some late 40's early 50's? coupe in his garage or similar building, roundish and a dark purple... He knew TV Tommy Ivo well also and actually drove his 4-wheel drive 4-engine Buick Roadster in a drag. It would be a cloud of rubber smoke leaving the line LOL. I think possibly on an issue of "Drag Racing Photo Greats" 66-68? My stepdad is on the cover driving the buick, lost the issue in fires back when but the helmet you barely see thru tire smoke has the same custom design painted by my S-Dad in same Silver/Green scheme.(If I remember rightly now, been years)The helmet was in our garage when I was young.
Anyway, veered a little off in another topic direction. There are a couple of cool Versions of RIR for NR2003. It was a really raw track, fun and interesting.
OK, enough ADHD side-tracks, gotta get to things(been back and forth typing this in between other things over the last hour+ LOL.).

Keep Em Rolling!
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