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    Posted: Oct/30/2011 at 11:17am
This is the sequel to AMC HORNET at Riverside Raceway. Carlsbad was sometimes used by SCCA as a road race track.

link to video on Youtube...



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Edited by Charles Smiley - Oct/30/2011 at 11:19am
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Thanks for sharing. That looks like fun.
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Hey Chuck,
Great old footage.  I remember when they called your Hornet the "Fastest Carpet in the West" because you still had your carpeting in.
Thanks for posting.
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Great vid Chuck!! And great article in HMM!
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Is it my imagination or does that car corner incredibly flat?
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It did corner that way. It was very preditable and stable at any speed. I got lucky! Very little understeer and if you got the tail out with too much power too early in corner exit, it was easy to correct - it gave you a little time to correct it. That's one advantage to a little longer wheelbase than my AMXs had. The AMXs were best on little tight autocross pylon courses. My '70 was better than the '68.
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I've drag raced there, but didn't know they ran SCCA there too. Is that track even there anymore?
 
Very cool video!!
 
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Carlsbad became an industrial park around 2004. Typical sad story. And they wonder why kids race on the street so much nowadays.
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Chas, Thanks for the memories! Went down that 1/4 and return road many times in the early 70's.  Eric
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Thanks.

Did you  ever get tempted to run through the return road like that? Maybe frowned upon.,, One thing I never thought about was how portable that Christmas light tree set up was.

I bet you may have been at Lyons and OCIR back in the early 70's like I was too. Is that "Pete's Patriot" AMX car you have? I remember that car being at OCIR a lot back then.
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