any old racers remember OCIR .........

[bearphoto]

Oh yea, I used to go there when i was in high school. Never raced there though. I for one am glad they are changing the date to a summertime event as that is the same weekend as the California Route 66 Museum Car Show in Victorville which I'm in charge of! You so. cal folks, come on out to the museum, show your car off!

[LORENSWIFE]

Nice El Camino tow vehicle Groucho and HUGE BRAVOS for your buddy Eddie!!!

[groucho]

OCIR was a blast. Late 70's-early 80's we'd rent the track during the week for $35 a car to tune our street race cars. We had full run of the clocks/tower/starting line. Here's a few pics. One is me towing to OCIR for one of those tune sessions, one is me running down a slower car at Super Chevy(?), and the rest at the track to tune on a week day. On the day of the "tow" shot, some jerkoff cut me off with his van, my buddy Eddie, saw it from his car and tossed a chocolate shake on the assholes windshield......we laughed our asses off

[groucho]

i spent all of my free time @ ocir while stationed over next door at mcas el toro , i used to drive my bbc powered 68 camaro from the auto hobby shop on base to the track with open headers and slicks and the mp's weren't not always happy with me . I remember hanging out with fast eddie ,john youngblood just to name couple and quite a few others . I wish they never closed the track down as it was state of the art facility for it's time and the tower was awesome to watch the races from


here's some pics i found and these are from around 1981-83 time frame

love that gold 67 camaro!!!!!!!

[LORENSWIFE]

One of the cars in our back yard has a vintage OCIR sticker on the window. The car is a POS duster that belongs to a friend, who needs to take it to its forever home. His tires said Drag "something" but he blacked out the "something" long ago, so I have written in whiteout "queen". HA
There used to ba a bumper sticker that said "Ditch the Bitch lets Go Racing" and I am pretty sure he has never raced any of his cars...
He has quite a few stickers on that car so I have been adding some in between his, Hello Kitty, a "rainbow" and those fish from the disney movie.

Hey! All's fair if you leave it parked in my yard for that long...

~Gail

[Jimbo17]

Another great place that made drag racing what it is today.

There are so many drag strips that will live on in our memories forever. The places are long gone but the memories last forever.

Jimbo

[173rdherd]

OCIR sure does bring back memories......had my son in the stands when he was 4 months old ('76). It was heaven compared to the midwest strips (U.S. 30, Union Grove).

[oldschoolcamaro]

just got an email back from the event organizer .....

I'm very sorry to have inconvienenced you, due to the fact that there is so many automotive events going on that time of year, like SEMA, the final races for the NHRA heritage series, the CHRR, divisional races, NHRA finals and to boot, Don Prudhomme is holding an open house at his shop in Visa the same day and time frame. Myself and the other promoters decided it was best to postpone this event to next summer to comemerate the 45 year opening of OCIR. Hope to see you there...Hans

[oldschoolcamaro]

just found this .............. conflict of dates for the OCIR reunion forces cancellation until next year !!

http://classicfunnycarboard.com/CFB/index.php?topic=20049.0

[Gary 351C]

Sadly I never made it to OCIR even though we only lived 10 miles away. My dad and I prefered the "roundy round" stuff at Ontario Motor Speedway. I may have to run over to the reunion on my lunch hour (or just take the day off), it's only a few miles from work.

[fabricatordave]

was out there as a kid was there til 74 grand dad took me all the time. there and riverside. was like from 8 years to13years old sure i saw all the famous ones with out knowing it

[Brian Lohnes]

Those Datsun bodied floppers were cursed!

[oldschoolcamaro]

Yep, if you lived in SoCal and were into hot cars It was OCIR for 64 funny cars or a "fox hunt", SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!!

The bottom picture is Gary Denshim ablaze. I was sitting on the dirt burm past the finishline lights at OCIR when he lit this one up....

yep OCIR is definately hallowed grounds for sure !!! ..... it was the place to be anytime the gates were open

[Dynoroom]

Yep, if you lived in SoCal and were into hot cars It was OCIR for 64 funny cars or a "fox hunt", SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!!

The bottom picture is Gary Denshim ablaze. I was sitting on the dirt burm past the finishline lights at OCIR when he lit this one up....

[oldschoolcamaro]

i spent all of my free time @ OCIR while stationed over next door at MCAS El Toro , i used to drive my BBC powered 68 camaro from the auto hobby shop on base to the track with open headers and slicks and the MP's weren't not always happy with me . i remember hanging out with fast eddie ,john youngblood just to name couple and quite a few others . i wish they never closed the track down as it was state of the art facility for it's time and the tower was awesome to watch the races from


here's some pics i found and these are from around 1981-83 time frame