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But Ed had a grander vision. He wanted a bigger, Why do we build cars? To drive them, of course.
better barbeque with more people. And more And if you entered your car in the Ruckus, you could
importantly, he wanted to use the 5/8-mile dirt oval at run some laps around that dirt oval and have a little fun.
the Trumbull County Fairgrounds. What he came up with But the track was used for more than just parade laps
was a phenomenal get together. You can’t just call it a car or spectator drags. There was the ‘shine run’, in which
show because there’s so much more going on than a fi eld a box of water-fi lled Mason jars was placed in the trunk
of cars and a bunch of people milling around them. of the participants’ cars as they race around the track,

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