If you have always wanted to own a functional quarter mile drag strip, tomorrow is your lucky day. Yellowstone Drag Strip in Montana is being sold to the highest bidder. The track is not a property that has been abandoned or left for dead. Instead, the owner of the facility passed away and left it to his wife, who has no interest in running a strip. The place is NHRA sanctioned and is a Division six member track.
Built in 2003, the strip is about as modern as you are going to get in terms of buying a turn key facility. The other bonus to the fact that this is a “late model” track is the physical racing surface itself. Using 400 feet of concrete as a launch pad and then another 3700 feet for the strip and shut down area, there will be no need to do anything other than normal prep work to fire it back up in 2012.
As you can see from the photo below, the place is in a wide open area. There are 14 areas of pits, about 2500 grandstand seats, full bathrooms and concessions, etc. The physical elevation of the track is a lofty 3,720ft above sea level. We say lofty because our eastern home track sits 90 feet above sea level.
The timing system is a modern Compulink, the track has an ambulance, multiple utility vehicles, tractors, a tire drag, sprayer, etc. This is literally buying a horsepower Disney World if you are a VHT loving drag dork, and we certainly are VHT loving drag dorks!
We have no idea what the opening bid will be, but we will keep you posted on the results of the auction of Yellowstone Drag Strip!
Link: Auctioneer’s site for Yellowstone Drag Strip
Anyone wanna go in halves?
I’ll go crack open my piggybank.
Too bad it’s not a Green Bay Packers ‘publicly-traded type deal. I think I could afford one share.
Click on the link of what the auction flyer says is a “1988 Ford pickup”
It sold today for $310,000