A treasure of a track and a relic of the 50s that in many ways was a home for the custom car culture of that era-the DIY community that represented the industrial equivalent of our hacking culture now. ![]() I have fond memories of the Freeport Speedway, and in 1983 in closed it’s doors for good, and sat idle for almost a decade before it was bulldozed and became-what else?-a box store. It was a lot of fun, we used to watch the smash-up derbies, the full-blown car races on a 1/5 mile track, that was pretty fast and furious. ![]() When i was a kid on Long Island we used to go to the stock car races at the Freeport Speedway every 4th of July for a good part of the ’70s.
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