Rumor last night at the track was Grandview is on the selling block. Do not know how true it is.

You know how rumors are  

Bigger news is that Ray won last night!

cOPART   ( SCRAP YARD ) IS BUYING IT WAITING 4 THE 14 ACRE FENCE CLEARANCE

Kind of odd since they made the investment on new lights. 

Very strange these junk car outfits seem to be involved with the death of local raceways. E-Town, tried it with Atco, and now this. Take a ride down 322 between WAWA and the Commodore Barry Bridge and you'll get a good idea how much money the Bport property is worth. The vultures are circling. Get out to your local track as often as possible. Save Flo-Racing for the winter months

Ok this meeting was the 25th anything come of it?

Ok this meeting was the 25th anything come of it?

So the neighbors would rather have a scrap yard across the street from their homes?

Area is really being built up quickly. The Track isn't out in the sticks anymore. I'd be the land is worth quite a bit of money. 

The fact that Ernie has not commented either way on this would make me think Grandview's days might be numbered. Needless to say, it would leave a big void if that's the case.

Ernie is no longer with grandview  is he ?

ERNIE NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL COMMENT ON ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT GRANDVIEW.  JUST REMBERING IN THE PAST ABOUT COMPLAINTS ABOUT SMOKING, THE CONDITIONS OF THE BATHROOMS, ENFORCING THE RULES FOR DRIVRRS ETC, ETC.  HE ALWAYS SAW GRANDVIEW THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES,  OH, I FORGOT,, HE WAS ON THEIR PAYROLL 

There's no need for this post. Ernie was a track employee. If an employee of a track or racing series goes on a message board to bash his employer, they will be a former employee. Did you expect him to criticize the bathrooms at Grandview?

Ernie is retired. Let the man enjoy retirement. 

I dont know how or why you think that is what my post about Ernie was for, some people just automatically go to the dark side I guess. My thoughts were that if the rumors were just that, rumors Ernie or someone else probably would have answered this thread, squashed them and said Gtandview is alive and well. The lack of response says that the sale of the track is likely. 

I seen way worse bathrooms,  many just have porta potties   I'll take GV bathrooms over portas anyday

Their is a good chance that after the Freedom race the Rodgers family will announce the sale. My question if Grandview does close where do Strunk CVD and Howard go among others.

As we have seen time and time again the value of the property becomes greater than what the track can generate. As far as the spending of money on new lights, there was no offer on the property at the time and they didn't see one coming. As a life long fan being from Whitehouse and having East Windsor on Friday nights, Flemington of course on Saturday nights & Nazareth on Sunday nights that are all gone now and Grandview has become my Saturday night home for many years now. It will be sad to see it go should it happen but life goes on and I will attend another track for my racing needs.

Knowing the elevations of the property, I'm surprised Copart would pick Grandview. I guess they look at race tracks as properties that had a tough time with zoning, so towns would be happy to have parking only.  This is not the first race track they have bought or leased. They are the new Wal Mart/track buyers.

Move the Sixer to New Egypt next year!

As long as there are tracks that run on Saturday nights, the guys will find places to go.  Strunk, Howard, and CVD are no strangers to Bridgeport, and for others with car owners, they'll go where the car owner says or someone else will be in the car.

For the lower budget teams and 602's... well, there's options as well... 

Would Big Diamond move to Saturdays?

So come September, will we go to the 76'er for old time's sake and line the kid's pockets, or will we take our business elsewhere and reward those who are still working to keep our favorite pasttime alive?

said it when i hear of bruces passing said track had 5 years and it would be sold.teresa isnt the only one making this decision.

With the numbers I'm hearing that are being thrown out there, I agree that it's a smart financial decision with the state of racing these days.  But lets acknowledge that it isn't just the 'fans' have that somewhat contributed to the lack of desire to continue to operate the track on a weekly basis.  I'm sure that Tina has had just about enough of dealing with the race teams as well.  They too can be just a guilty of abusing the priviledge of having a facility operate every week to go out and live their racing dreams.  With the crowds they draw for special shows, it would appear that they could just run 6 or 8 of them a year and maybe make a profit, but why make the effort if they can just cash in and be sitting pretty?  There are so many reasons to sell, but at least we can all enjoy one last 76er in a couple weeks and get one last look at a track that gave us a lot of good memories.  Thanks to all who continued to keep the place running as long as it did.

The attendance is noticeably down this year including the TOTH shows