http://jalopnik.com/tag/race-track-driveway/?id=5156906
Hmmm...nice backyard.....
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Feb. 20, 2009 7:55 p.m. ea_sport New Reader
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Feb. 20, 2009 9:29 p.m. DirtyBird222 HalfDork
that is amazing, i might have to take a detour on my way to sebring
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Feb. 20, 2009 10:44 p.m. NYG95GA Dork
Now THAT'S cool!
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Feb. 21, 2009 7:49 a.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
sweet... wish I even owned that much acerage
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Feb. 21, 2009 8:03 a.m. nervousdog New Reader
Love it.
I also daydream about owning enough land to make some dirt rally trails.
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Feb. 21, 2009 10:10 a.m. suprf1y New Reader
Thats got my little track beat
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Feb. 21, 2009 10:13 a.m. cwh Dork
All I've got is an I-95 entrance ramp.
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Feb. 21, 2009 11:28 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork
I have the cloverleaf where the Garden State..parkway and the atlantic city expressway meet
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Feb. 21, 2009 11:31 a.m. neon4891 SuperDork
I curently have a 100 yard snowX drag strip
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Feb. 21, 2009 4:29 p.m. thatsnowinnebago HalfDork
I have one assigned parking spot for two cars
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Feb. 21, 2009 5:31 p.m. carguy123 Dork
Mine's more like half of that. I've got about a 1/4 mile autocross course. I could have put in a straight road, but I curved it around a pond and followed a deer path thru the woods back.
The neighbors are taking bets upon when I'll go off and take out the neighbors fence. At one point I'm only about 3' from the neighbor's fence.
I looked for a google earth pic of the place but the maps they are using for our area are over 7 years old based upon the construction showing up next door.
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Feb. 21, 2009 8:05 p.m. gcassidy None
I wonder which direction he runs it. Anti-clockwise going to work, and clockwise coming home?
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Feb. 21, 2009 8:22 p.m. Kramer Reader
When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall.
My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.
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Feb. 22, 2009 8:47 a.m. gcassidy New Reader
I also got to wondering if the guy who lives in the house in the photo should open a concession stand out of his back window?
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Feb. 22, 2009 10:11 a.m. JFX001 HalfDork
Kramer wrote:
When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall.
My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.
That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.
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Feb. 22, 2009 11:09 a.m. Karl La Follette Reader
That is cool we have a atv track at the hunting camp but this is way way cooler
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Feb. 22, 2009 11:40 a.m. sachilles Reader
Wonder what the paving cost would be?
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Feb. 22, 2009 1:56 p.m. Kramer Reader
JFX001 wrote: That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.
I grew up in western Ohio, where the gravel roads were paved in the '60's. I learned how "drifting" works watching Indy 500 drivers race around Eldora Speedway.
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Feb. 22, 2009 5:12 p.m. Carson HalfDork
gcassidy wrote:
I wonder which direction he runs it. Anti-clockwise going to work, and clockwise coming home?
I'd never make it to work, it would be call in sick, run all morning one direction, all afternoon the other. Everyday. Until they caught on and I'd have to find another job. Repeat.
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Feb. 22, 2009 6:58 p.m. RedS13Coupe New Reader
I have ALWAYS wondered why you don't see this kinda thing more often. Plenty of ranch homes out there, instead of a mansion I would have a small home, big garage and race track in a heart beat.
