The HIDDEN HISTORY of 411 Dragway - Abandoned Drag Strip in Seymour, TN

Thank you for putting this together. I worked there for over 20years. It was my life for so long.

Cool nostalgic look! Here in England we only have 1 legal dragstrip remaining...for the entire country!

I was brought up at 411 and never knew about the fatal crash on opening night. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this!

Used to hang out there in the mid 70's with a guy that ran a 68/69 Torino GT 428 SCJ called "Sneaky Snake" in the factory Super Stock class. And it shows up in this video. Super Cool!! I remember the Great Ghost Camaro as well.

Great video! I lost my local 1/8th mile track many years back now, it sat grown up with the buildings falling in until a little over a year ago when the grading started for a neighborhood, I miss it as much today as when it first closed, the shocker was when Commerce was sold and closed, now my yearly trip to the Southern Nationals is gone, progress really stinks at time. I guess I'll have to go Paradise next year to a couple races, that's the closest track to my house.

Another great video on old racing and old drag strips can't get enough of it i sttill lookk at pictures on the Internet of my old drag strip i raced at back in the early 70s

It's so disheartening all the drag strips that have closed. I'm in San Antonio and ours closed a few years ago. 😢

Keep up the great work! Now that I'm an old fart it's a fun little trip down memory lane. I remember back in the late 70's when I was in the Air Force stationed in Louisiana and late one night when I was just out for a drive near a little hole in the wall "town" that I think was called Forest Hill or something like that and saw a partially covered faded sign that said Cenla Raceway or something like that and being a motorhead from California I had to see if I could find it, right? Well, first off I remember the old road to get there was just your typical rutty dirt back road and I wondered how anyone would get a car on a trailer up there with my 69 Nova SS hitting bottoming out a few times on the way but after a short time I turned the corner and there it was, a little two story "timing tower" and two lanes of asphalt with a 3 ft tall cyclone fence on both sides. Well, of course I had to make a quick run down t track like any teenager with a hot rod would do. But as I was giving it all I had, suddenly up ahead there was a cyclone fence running across the lanes! Yeow, what the heck is going on? Well, being a CA guy I didn't even think about this track being an 1/8 mile instead of the 1/4 mile tracks I grew up on...lol Fortunately I was able to get it slowed down every in time and decided to come check it out another time during the day to get a better look. About a month later I decided to go check it out again with a couple of buddies and, to my amazement, when we got there, there was probably about 50 cars up there racing! But when we got a little closer to find a place to park, you could tell by the looks we we were getting from the locals that we weren't welcome there so unfortunately we didn't get to watch any racing or talk to anyone, which sucked. You have to remember that, back in the late 70's and Disco going strong, our short military haircuts (and no mutton chop sideburns😔) were a big red flag in a lot of places so even though we were all car guys we weren't always welcomed with open arms, especially with Vietnam still being a sore subject for a lot of people. Does anyone out there remember that track and have any info on the history of it? About 10 years ago, my teenage son and I took a cross-country road trip and we passed through the area so I could show him some of the places where I may have possibly misbehaved (and to deny everything if anyone asked) but even though I knew where the main road was I couldn't figure out where the dirt road to the track was and didn't want to spend a bunch of time looking for it so I have no idea what happened to it. I do remember that there was also a dirt oval track on the main road passing through Forest Hill that I went to a few times when I was there that ran Modifieds and I think held the State Championships there but sadly, it too was gone as well. Thanks for letting me bore y'all with my misadventures!

Another outstanding video Tommy. Great pictures and videos.

Love all your content thank you for all the hard work and dedication you put into each video. Mad respect

Awesome seeing some more drag racing history. The cars and vibe was so much cooler back in the heyday. I live close to Beech Bend Dragstrip in Bowling Green Ky. It has a lot of history as well. Thanks for sharing!

I live a couple of hills over from it and always was curious on why the drag strip had closed. Thanks for the great video and a history lesson.

Thank you for the shout out and for finding that gap in operations that I couldn't. Lol

Loved all the really cool photos and newspaper clippings. Thank you for all the work that went into this great video my friend. 👍💪

Thanks for sharing this. You do such a great job with the history and story telling. I live just a few miles down the road from the track.

Awesome video as always! This was our home track for many years. The matching black and orange Camaros were my papaw and uncles. My papaw also owned the roust-a-bout barracuda and the baby blue and white Camaro at one point or another. Most of my core memories were made there. I made my first of many passes in my junior dragster there as well as my first pass in an actual racecar. Most of these people were a big part of my life growing up. Donnie who ran the track in the later years was a close family friend and came to help out and announce when 411 closed and we were running Knoxville.

I raced my Honda 500 there in the mid 70`s. It was fun. I also raced 411 Speedway in my dirt track car when Smoky mtn got rained out, 411 was asphalt then. But I had fun. Used to go to the Maryville dragway until it closed down. The Maryville strip was also the last scene in "Two Lane Blacktop", where they crashed the 55 Chevy.

We lost our track this month it is most likely going to become a sub division. Solong Sacramento Raceway you had a good run from 1964-2023.

Young Thomas, that was one hell of a great musical selection about half way through the video. Great pick!

The closing segment was really fun to watch and appreciated. Good luck to you and yours 🤓