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Originally Posted by owenmp
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One other factor: At the time, one of the "big deals" in auto racing was the attempts by the Mickey Thompson Group, among others, to bring closed-course off-road racing to "arena"-type venues -- baseball parks; football stadiums (most famously the L.A. Coliseum, where the course ran up and down sections of the grandstands); small dirt tracks; etc. One of the classes involved used tube-frame buggies topped with bodywork resembling passenger cars. (Sadly, the only really memorable part of the whole business was the TV broadcasts using "Born To Be Wild" as the title music.)