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Long gone but never to be forgotten.
These were the classic venues where the sports/racing cars of the 1950s
and early 1960s made history. See them as they look today!
Maps are clickable.
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| From "Todd": Aerial photo of Riverside Raceway from 1962!!! |
| Author, historian, and Lotus Mk.23 driver Gary Horstkorta also contributed this diagram of the Sacramento Fairgrounds Course. |  |
| Cotati was located 45 miles north of
San Francisco and was an abandoned WWII Naval airfield.
Gary Horstkorta sent photos & information about this long gone northern California venue. |
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| Riverside International Raceway was
the crown jewel of motorsport in southern California from its
opening
weekend in 1957 until it was finally overwhelmed by development in
1988.
In 2001, Bill Wilkman walked the grounds and took these photos. Further development has since obliterated even these last traces. |
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| Vaca Valley Raceway, near the town of
Vacaville in northern California, still exists. Conceivably, it could be
reopened if local politics allowed it and someone paid for a complete repaving.
Dann Shively took these aerial photos. |
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| Paramount Ranch was a unique road racing
course in the Santa Monica mountains above Malibu. The land was used
as a film location for many shoot 'em up Western movies.
It's now a State Park and the "Old West" town with saloons & hitching rails and other standards of the genre still exists. Website contributor Bob Norton walked the grounds and took these photos. |
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