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Flashback Fotos: Atlanta race tracks and speedways
A crowd watches the start of the Atlanta Coca Cola 500, 1982. Ray West / AJC file
Atlantans love their cars. And car companies love Atlanta, it would appear.
Porsche opened the doors of its new North American headquarters to guests last week. The new office even has a test track with no speed limit, which is expected to start operating in June.
However, few can say they remember when Porsche's neighbor, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, used to be an auto race track named The Atlanta Speedway.
As the airport was developed, the race track was moved. In this week's #throwbackthursday, view a visual history of race tracks and speedways in the Atlanta area.
For more information:
- Volvo may have passed over Georgia in favor of South Carolina for its first U.S. manufacturing plant, but other luxury car companies are seating their thrones in the Empire State of the South.
- In May 2011, Porsche announced plans to move the North America headquarters from Sandy Spring to the old Ford plant site near Atlanta's airport.
- This year, Mercedes announced it was moving its American headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta.
