TMCP #507: Brian Gade – Racing Vintage American Iron on the Oval Tracks

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Brian Gade is the creator of the American Iron Racing series here in Iowa, a series that specifically puts old style oval dirt track cars back on the track to compete again. The goal of the series to to be cheap, fun, and easy with an emphasis on utilizing plenty of American iron!

Brian grew up around cars and knew that his dad raced when he was very little. His dad retired from racing in the 60’s but the knowledge of the sport had already infected the young Gade. In the early 1981 Brian built a race car and raced for a few summers but also quit to focus on his auto repair business. Friends asked for help building race cars in later years and wound up racing one of his old race cars and they found out it was pretty fun driving an older cheap car around the track. It was so much fun they all started building old cars and getting into the racing scene again on the cheap. Eventually they figured out that racing cheap, fun, and easy old cars was catching on and decided to create the American Iron Racing Series.