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Metrolina Speedway - North Carolina ABANDONED Race Track

Date: July 31, 2012 Duration: 7m 40s
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - This historic track sits empty outside Charlotte NC . If you are willing to brave the deep overgrown woods, you too can enjoy what remains.
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0:20 welcome everyone I'm in Charlotte North
0:20 Carolina walking down this grown over
0:23 stretch of area check out this tree
0:26 stump is pretty
0:28 fantastic continuing on now now join us
0:30 shall
0:36 you a lot of trees have fallen over in
0:36 the way the
0:38 pathway spider
0:44 webs going through the Wilderness here
0:44 to find this Metrolina
0:52 racetrack see where the old road was
0:52 here it cracked open and there's the
0:53 clay underneath it oh yeah leading up to
0:57 it over here in the middle of the wood
1:00 we have some
1:01 remnants check this
1:03 out looks like maybe the ticket
1:07 booth that ticket booth yeah I found the
1:09 ticket
1:11 booth lots of spider webs out
1:14 here see what we got
1:17 here a table of some sort set up ticket
1:21 booth was
1:24 there check that out that's
1:49 please safe to say this place isn't used
1:49 very often anymore no I don't think
2:06 sck up
2:14 here you guys doing all right back
2:14 there are a little foliage
2:30 here who's that oh was it I don't know
2:30 animal
2:32 yeah these are
2:46 Wilderness it's a
2:46 tire there's a bunch of tires over here
2:49 really there a whole mess load of tires
2:51 over
3:08 Endeavor what's that noise in that tree
3:08 cada what is it
3:10 cada all this
3:17 clay probably some Gators in there
3:17 wouldn't you say oh yeah or maybe some
3:18 snakes probably no Gators except that
3:21 one over there in the woods sitting
3:22 there watching
3:30 us all right we're here
3:30 we've made it check this out
3:51 wow I had this was the original dirt
3:51 track
3:52 race oh definitely looks like all is
3:54 Clay
4:05 it's probably safe to say that the
4:05 sinkhole was not here when the race
4:07 track was in its Heyday look at the size
4:09 of
4:10 this completely straight
4:17 down what's that the screwdriver maybe
4:17 part of the pit crew stuff oh we should
4:20 hang on to
4:40 H some serious Thorns through
4:40 there bees and
4:42 spiders the fence is
5:12 what do you think these metal things are
5:13 used
5:21 for look like a
5:21 demon nodding his
5:24 head it's like somebody had a
5:27 altercation right there
5:49 echo that's that's actually an oil
5:49 bottle yeah one of the racers probably
5:51 filled up his car with oil and then toss
5:53 it over the fence it's a stands as a
5:55 souvenir for The
5:57 Crowd Oh that's interesting it's like a
5:59 doorway that leads straight out there's
6:00 the
6:02 steps pretty mangled got to get onto the
6:05 track now here through this
6:07 whole sharp edges of metal cting a shot
6:15 time I made it come with
6:28 me here's the wall you got to wonder how
6:28 many cars crashed into that wall coming
6:29 around the
6:30 turn oh this is the infield where
6:32 everybody was like tailgating and
6:33 partying yeah race teams have the
6:36 mechanic set up a plethora of
6:40 remnants out here the seat cushion here
6:44 you could use it as a
6:53 frisbee frisbee time seat cushion
6:53 frisbee we got a little snake out here
6:56 somebody want to pick that up hold it up
6:57 for the camera or not not or yes see how
7:01 long that bad boy is stuck oh he came
7:04 apart cool he's a racing
7:15 fan I'll check this out little
7:15 tailgating momento left out
7:24 here what are you doing man just
7:24 watching the race you got a problem with
7:28 it