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zika virus cities and helmet I think
it's made it this far north yet so this
is gonna be kind of a point roadkill
extra the problem with my life is if I
could complain it's that when we were
out shooting road killer doing power to
her drag we can stuff like that usually
we don't have time to actually see
America I've been just about everywhere
and haven't seen much of it but this
time we're on Drag Week 2016 i'm here
with my friend Brian lawns we're doing
the live feed video announcing from drag
week he's also for bank shift calm and
we're adventuring on this trip we've
been looking at old drag strips yes
we're like duking it out what's your
count now 122 after today and so what am
I 18 what no 80 you got an 87 88 because
you're 86 and then you got to so because
we got the one day with the man with the
dog chased us off haha we had the one
today that we couldn't get in what we
saw and that was sponsored by someone we
know and we had no idea
yeah I'll see you want for the count
every way what we're talking about is we
like to collect old drag strips meaning
go to as many drag strips as you
possibly can its kind of our job it's
also our hobby
Brian announces everywhere so he's got a
hundred and twenty yeah 122 right now
joining to your right now I've got 80
whatever we just said but at this stop
right here we pulled in because it
looked like oh man that's an old
racetrack i'm pretty sure from looking
at this booth
this used to be a drive-in we're
somewhere in michigan i think i think
nowhere in indiana now did we make me
being in Indiana yeah the problems with
Drag Week and power towards you never
know where you are at any given me cross
state lines there's no signs there's
nothing what's the coolest old track
you've been to Louisa County Dragway in
virginia the only thing it's in the
middle of a farm right now and the only
thing left of it is the starting line
the actual strip is there it's only like
you know 10 feet wide
yeah but it's the whole area was annexed
by a farmer and basically he stacks is
he stacks hey along it so to find this
place my wife and I my kids were looking
for it we had to use google earth and we
counted the hedgerows as we're driving
down a hot down the road stopped walked
into a farm and all of a sudden we were
standing on the starting line of address
that sounds like a very romantic
vacation it was it not that this
my wife is very and have you been a
George raise i have been to George raise
yours George raised wild cat rack
dragstrip actually Chad and I were on a
road trip home from Memphis and we
stopped there this place is in paragould
arkansas yes and we got to talk to the
old guy actually before you croak to get
out after and he had a bean field
yeah and he was a drag racer and
honestly he went to a couple of early
like NHRA drag safari events yeah and he
was like safety you're irritating me
I'm just going to go ahead and handle
this program on my own so it took has
been filled
did you know it was actually quarter
mile 12 i know they ran up until like a
middle sixties maybe or something like
that right yeah yeah yeah you drag this
thing out to a full quarter mile ru
mosquito-proof i'm getting eaten here
now I'm just a man haha alright that's
not me dead in my tracks back to
paragould arkansas so he built a
quarter-mile drag strip in his backyard
ultimately shorten it up to an eight
mile and this place basically is like
running right here there is very little
yeah you can go on you can find if you
google image search raise you'll see
people in dragsters with beers in hand
wearing no shirt and having their belt
on you'll see videos of dudes sitting
three inches from a dude guy do to burn
out drinking a beer getting totally
engulfed in smoke
the place is unbelievable one of our
drag week guys took the restored mr.
norm's wouldn't know the bell Dodge car
Ryan coffin Brian Coleman Coleman
Coleman nitromethane swept out the swept
out the horizon did burn out to the
whole works there
yep so good adventures and I guess the
whole moral of the story is when you're
out road killing and you're not having
video follow you everywhere you want to
just go ahead and stop and see
everything you possibly can because I
regret when I was in my teens back in
the eighties and I would go on road
trips all the time there would be things
I didn't really realize that the
Lockheed plant was in the town where I
live
it was there forever I never bothered to
look at it then it stored down and now i
wish i had gone to check it out so
America's here you should have a look
brought to you from radical driving
somewhere in the middle if we don't know
where any other piece of advice is that
these mosquitoes around just man up and
act like a grown-up
this is why no one likes you all right
we're out
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