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Bill Helmer

Remembering Rio Speedway

February 21, 2023

“THRILLS! SPILLS! CHILLS!” was how Rio Speedway advertised its stockcar races, and at that little track we must have totaled classics worth a million dollars. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but you get the idea. When I lived there, Pharr, Texas, was a hamlet of 5000, two hundred miles south of San Antonio and just across the […]

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