Soap Lake Speedway

[Studebakercenteroforegon]

You Tube video from Soap Lake Speedway (eastern Washington) from 1966-67-68. A couple of quick views of a yellow and blue Starlight coupe, plus a white C body spinning out later in the video. But most interesting is a main event in which a red Hawk seems to easily lead and end up with the checkered flag!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCWgo9W9lXU

[Studebakercenteroforegon]

At about 2:44, I see yet another red C/K body Studebaker on the track - and it is not the red K body #2 that handily won the main event. So at least 4 different Studebakers are shown racing on this paved oval track.

[candbstudebakers]

The red hawk looks to be a 56 Golden hawk and would have had the Packard 352 in it and a good one to race.

[jclary]

Looks like the barrels at the base of those utility poles were for protecting the poles and not the race drivers. Imagine some promoter attempting to stage a race at a track laid out like that today!

[BRUCESTUDE]

Soap Lake is cool town-my stomping grounds were at Moses Lake (30 minutes away)from '77-'83, we visited Soap Lake and Ephrata often, there were a lot of cool old cars in the area back then!