Memories of Pines Speedway Groveland, Massachusetts 1940-1977 A trip down short track memory lane Art Print of Pines Speedway in Groveland Mass. from an original watercolor painting by the Artist, William B. MacGregor Jr., who is known in the New England area as the Junkyard Artist.
For 37 years, the action on Saturday night in Groveland, Mass was at The Pines Speedway. Pines Speedway opened in 1940 and was a quarter-mile asphalt oval track. It soon besides short track racing became the home for the wild and reckless world of midget racing in New England. The Pines was a hotbed of activity, first in the form of midgets, but later a string of jalopy stock cars, cut-downs, Class A cars and, finally, late-model stocks made the race track a must-do event every weekend throughout the summer. The
track's biggest rivalry in the 1960s was between Ollie Silva “Big 0” and Don MacLaren aka the Blue Streak 3 or the flying Scotsman .
When the crowd saw Ollie Silva slowly rumbling out of the pits in his
black 'Big O' coupe," the announcer would bellow as follows.
'Ladies and gentlemen, it's Quick Silva! And then, he would announce
in a dramatic tone, 'Don-n-n-n-n MacLaren, the Blue Streak 3.”
If
you weren't there by 6:00, you couldn't park because the Pines was
absolutely packed." Sadly, Pines
Speedway closed in 1977. But the good news is recently in the Fall
there is an annual Pines Speedway reunion.
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Art print is printed on Canson Fine Art-Photo Rag Paper or equivalent.
Mounted in a beveled double mat.
Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 8”x10” or 11”x14” frame.
Mat will be signed by the artist.
Note: Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local craft/department store. No need for custom framing! The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat.
Magnet
Magnet is approximately 2 1/2 ” x 3 1/2 ” in size.
Acrylic Plastic Refrigerator Magnet.
Original Painting
Original Acrylic & Watercolor painting
Mounted in a tbd” mat.
Image opening size is approx. tbd”
Sorry, I do not offer framing. But it will fit into a standard tbd” frame.
$129.00 including shipping.
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William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors the Junkyard Artist
William B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son and grandson of Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters. Many of his family members were self-taught artists, woodcarvers, automobile mechanics and veterans of foreign wars including his father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is a graduate of Medfield High School, Wentworth Institute, and Northeastern University. His engineering career, from which he is now retired, included working for military and aerospace companies in industrial engineering and IR optics. His painting incorporates “old skool” mechanical and civil drafting tools and he uses a mixed medium of watercolors, acrylics and inks. Two rabbits are often in quite a few of his paintings. Look for them. He is frequently commissioned by United States Naval officers to create paintings of their ships and aircraft carriers on nautical charts. In May,2018, and for one year, four of Bill’s automotive related paintings were on display at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA
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