{"id":566045,"date":"2017-05-03T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=566045"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:42:33","slug":"dead-drag-strip-file-shuffletown-dragway-north-carolina-now-video-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshift1320\/dead-drag-strip-file-shuffletown-dragway-north-carolina-now-video-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Drag Strip File: Shuffletown Dragway, North Carolina Then and Now (Video and Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 127th drag strip I have ever been to (living or dead) is displayed here before you. Shuffletown Dragway in North Carolina is one of the most eerie abandoned strips I have ever been to because nature is so rapidly reclaiming it. The place has only been closed for about 25 years but the reality is that stuff grows all year long in the climate of the Charlotte area and unchecked, it’ll simply take over. We have told you about Shufftletown Dragway previously but to briefly recap, the place opened in the 1950s as a dirt strip and was paved in the early 1960s. It ran as a healthy and busy southern match bash strip for many years. Then then the people came.<\/p>\n

As the population of the local area grew, the squeeze on the track got tighter and tighter. Shuffletown was closed in 1996 because of a city noise ordinance that was passed. Basically it was legislated out of business because the local population was sick of listening to it. While the makes our blood boil, it is important to note that Shuffletown had a measurable effect on the sport.<\/p>\n

As one of the great top sportsman quick 8 shootout tracks in the south, Shuffletown hosted guys like Tommy Mauney, Scotty Cannon, Ed Hoover, and others with regularity. It was one of the true incubators, accelerators, and ignition points for what would be come pro modified. Shuffletown lived to see pro modified born before its life was snuffed out by the local populace.<\/p>\n

Walking the place now makes it look like it went out of business 100 years ago. It is truly weird.<\/p>\n

The pit area and parking areas have been turned into a combo dog park, kid park, and baseball field. You walk through that stuff, over a little berm and then you are literally standing on the drag strip. Or what remains of it…and not much remains of it. The tower is completely overgrown and has been stripped to the studs. Nothing but a couple of electrical boxes remain. It looks like hell.<\/p>\n

The track’s concrete starting line is still there and is actually in halfway decent shape. The asphalt will likely be completely reduced to gravel in the next couple of years when you consider what the timeline has been for its decline so far. The sawed off telephone poles that were the backing for the guardrails are there and the fences where you’ll see spectators standing behind are there as well.<\/p>\n

This is one everyone should check out because it is literally open to the public. The best thing to do below is check out the photos and then watch the videos to see what the place actually looked like. It is stunning.<\/p>\n

Check out the photos, then be stunned at the video of the track when it was running<\/h3>\n

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