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

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Robert Kibbe

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4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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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, easy, and fun with an emphasis on utilizing plenty of American iron!

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 507.
0:05.2	This week, Brian Gaudy from the American Iron Racing series, is here to talk to us about cheap, fun, and easy vintage stock car racing, but maybe not like you're thinking.
0:15.1	This is a series Brian developed in eastern Iowa to put old cars and their old engines back on circled dirt tracks
0:21.6	to race door to door, fender to fender, chrome bumper to chrome bumper.
0:24.6	The cutoff year is 1979, but the bulk of the field seems to like 50s era and early 60s
0:31.6	era American iron. So if you see these at the track, you might think you have stepped back in time, and maybe you could do it too.
0:38.8	And I give it to him.
0:39.7	And God, I had so much fun doing that, but I thought, geez, you know, God, it would be cool if we could race these things.
0:50.7	This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought you by National Parts Depot.
0:57.2	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:03.6	If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:09.8	Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby,
1:14.8	and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. So welcome everybody. Brian Gotti is our guest today.
1:20.1	Didn't know Brian before we did this interview, but through connections of connections,
1:24.2	you realize we probably knew some of the same people. And we're going to talk about race cars.
1:28.8	Circle Dirt Track purpose-built cheap vintage race cars.
1:33.1	If you haven't seen a late 50s Ford and a full-on drift at a Circle Dirt Track, you haven't lived.
1:38.6	He invented the American Iron Racing series, and it has become a popular thing in eastern Iowa here and kind of
1:45.4	around the Midwest here. I think you're going to really enjoy it. So that's coming up in the interview.
1:50.0	Maybe you did this. Maybe your dad's did this as a kid, but he has found a way to take what maybe
1:56.6	used to be old hobby stock classes, put old bodies on them, and race them. Other than safety
2:02.6	equipment, there's nothing else on them. They're just basic race cars. I think you'll really enjoy
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