Wednesday 30 September 2015
Yamaha Silver Cup, Long Beach, CA
Great old clip, posted by Superbike Planet, of early-1970s indoor short track on concrete. Nixon, Mashburn and Brelsford are all interviewed. The track looks like ice, definitely no Coke syrup down to make that more tacky. I'm pretty sure it's 1971, or late 1970. A bit of digging showed that Jim Odom won it (the rider from the Trophy Queen page of Sideburn 10).
As the presenter explains, the series also went to the famous Madison Square Gardens for the NY round in January 1971. A reported 17,000 turned up, on a Monday night!, the iconic venue sold out and spectators were turned away, according to an AMA report from the time. I wonder how many will go to the first US Superprestigio in Vegas on November 20-21? Two who will be there are Ben and me. Travis the poet too! Whose coming?
Click the 'Carpet Shoes' label below for more post about indoor concrete short track, or the 'indoors' label for more indoor short track in general.
Thanks to Roger for bringing it to our attention. G
Labels:
1970s,
California,
carpet shoes,
Gary Nixon,
indoors,
Mark Brelsford,
Mashburn,
Superprestigio
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4 comments:
Great footage. Astro heaven!
yep..going in the garage now to start my 106 Astro up
Far Out
Cleaning the front room with my sock
Randy, is that prison slang? G
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