A developer will turn one of the Midwest's best-known tracks, the Detroit Dragway, into an industrial park. The only engines grinding at Detroit Dragway this summer will come from earth movers turning the strip into an industrial park. One of the Midwest's best-known drag strips is being sold this month to a New York developer, who plans to add 2.8 million square feet of light assembly plants and warehouses along a growing business district off Interstate 75. Gone will be the bone-rattling scream of revving muscle cars, flames shooting out from the exhaust of a fuel dragster and the tang of an amateur dousing his tires with bleach. But there's an economic boom hitting Detroit.
Life goes on.
For some, Detroit Dragway was more than a place to haul a modified Camaro, Mustang or Plymouth Duster. Lots of guys came up through the ranks there. My mother still uses my first racing trophy as a doorstop. It's a real loss. He was 25.