Many, many years ago we, me and a few friends with a '34 Ford coupe, towed from Sioux City, Iowa to race in Denver. One of our group had an uncle who lived in Denver and the purpose of the trip was to 'visit' the uncle and of course we just happened to bring along the stock car. On the way we found a race track in I think Sterling, Colorado and ran a Sunday afternoon show. All I remember was the place was so dusty you could hardly see the cars. Our guy was paid in cash $5.75 for his day of racing and I don't remember where he finished. We finally made it to Denver and with the uncle along we were headed to the track when it rained buckets and the racing was cancelled. We hung around the area for a few days but never did get to race at the Denver track and I don't know which track they were talking about. We left Denver headed home and ended up in Ft. Collins at a little asphalt track that was a part of an amusement park I think. Our guy tore the coupe up with a hit against the fence and we worked for two days just to get the front end under the coupe and the tow bar attached for the return trip to Iowa. I don't remember the uncles name and if any oldtimers read this they might correct me on the Sterling track and the Ft. Collins track but I think that was where we were in either 1954 or 1955.
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