My dad was the caretaker there for the last 6 years the track was open. We lived there year round during that time! Our mobile overlooked the start/finish line! Was a great place for me as an older kid to young teen to experience! Many amazing memories for myself and my dad! I will be forwarding this to him! Thank you bring back so many great memories!
I have this memory of being a kid coming here with my dad and grandpa after the track closed. We came to take some of the lumber from the grandstands I believe i still have some of it around with that teal green paint on it. I remember making the long hike up from the gate to find the caretaker to open it so we could drive up and load the truck.
My dad would take me and my brothers there to watch some races on random evenings in the late(r) 80s. Great memories of being a kid and watching for Datsun 510s! Thanks for posting.
The gymkhana event takes place in the BCIT parking lot. The white building at 4:53 is the BCIT Library, and still stands today (but is painted a different color).
7 hr enduro with Ramon was the start of my apprenticeship. That was a magical time in our country. We who where their all experienced the best time in the history of Canada. It will never be that way again.😢
I recall going to Westwood track many times in the later 1960' and early 1970's for car and motorcycle racing. In the mid to late 1990's having become an accountant, I had a client who built dozens of houses and townhouses there. In one case, when they were doing their site excavations, they uncovered hundreds if not thousands of old tires that someone had buried on the site rather than having them hauled away. Fortunately, my client was able to get Wesbild, the main developer, to pay for their removal.
@@DavidM2002 LOL!!!! I remember the tire dump! It was by the the old Moto Cross track (if you remember that) Early 70’s,Me and my brothers used to go play in that tire dump when dad was racing his bike. Cheers to ya for that memory 🍻
Nice to see Wetwood again. In the early 70's (I was 10 yrs old) and worked with my dad on deer's leap as a corner marshal for years. When I turned 16 in 1976 I took drivers training in a Honda civic and the year before my dad took drivers training in a 1969 396 chevelle SS that had a 4 spd Muncie. Four wheel drum brakes it had. Lots of go but no stop. In 1978 I won the Westwood claimers class championship and I hold the track record for that class ( 1:28.03 ). It was a class specifically for Datsun 510's and after two races anyone could claim your car for $1200 and you could claim someone else's. I was later renamed Westwood class but no claiming. In 1982 I won the GT3 championship in Conference and that qualified me to run at the nationals at Mid Ohio. We had no money left and I couldn't go. That Porsfhe is most likely Charlie Godecke. He was a lunatic -- LOL and was later a driving instructor at Rivers Edge race track in Mission. He was our driving instructor for my brother and I when after many years I renewed my license. That Brabham could be John OR Bob Randall. I remember Bob and Hilda Randall well. He was our President for decades and Hilda did our licenses. They were VERY nice people. I think I still have a super 8 film of my dad's chevelle from inside the car running at Westwood. No sound on that camera as I recall. Not sure where it is but we wouldn't have a projector anymore and my dad passed away in 2020. Mom still with us but she just turned 92 a few days ago. Still on her own. Good for you mom !! Unfortunately I'm old now too ------ 64. Time is evil. By the way --- Hi Al Ores if you are seeing this. To Tracy Germain --- You got robbed girl. The GT3 championship trophy is at my house but it should be at yours. You are hellish fast girl but Andy never gave you a car that stayed together. You are a champion but it's just not official.
I was a member of the BC (Burnaby Coquitlam) Sports Car club in the early 1970s and we manned (with wives and girlfriends always on site) a marshal’s station on the outside of turn 1 overlooking the carousel and therefore often busy when folks would spin out. Many memories of long days standing in the rain appreciating how Wetwood earned its nickname Members of our club, who worked for BCTel, strung the sound system around the track as several of them were linesmen and skilled at working up poles.
I took driver training there with my friend Jaz, we used his Datsun 510 with my tires! so much fun! Remember the bikes doing wheelies over dear's leap, (Allan Dick?) I talked to him about it and he said it was kinda tricky because at that speed you couldn't let it get to high or the wind would catch it and flip you over! I made the sprockets for his bike.
Cool to see, I raced a Titan Mk3 there in 1985/86. I remember Al Oars, Felim Power, Mike Witters {who I bought my car off} Trevor Shaw, Tim Mitchell, Dan Hodap,, Someone named Charles from the US among others. What a great track and a great time! I can still do a lap in my head.
I raced Formula Ford there until the track closed in 1990. It was a fairly primitive place, but very challenging. I’d forgotten about the huge swamp inside of turn 1! There were a lot of places to hurt yourself, including Deers Leap, where marshals had a special flag to warn of deer by the edge of the track.
I drove Westwood many times with the BMW & Alfa club. We were among the last clubs to use the track before it closed for development. Such great memories. Too bad we have nothing like that anywhere in the Lower Mainland.
I rode the train to Westwood from Vancouver ( Washington that is) in 1979 for the Trans Am races and drove up in 1980. Fun track and I still a ticket holder from Westwood.
I Was there in 1978 to see Herb Adams SCCA Silverbird 366 ci. RA IV 600 HP Trans Am but it Wasn't there to do scheduling - it finished 2nd at The California Laguna Seca SCCA Race that year ahead of all the Porsches and A # of BBC Vettes etc 😎
The images at 4:58:07 are NOT in North Vancouver where I grew up. The North Shore mountains are far too distant to be in North Van. I looked at some recent photos I took from QE Park and can identify Grouse Mountain in your video and the closer mountain which has to be Burnaby Mountain. That makes this parking lot in Burnaby and by the angle in northwest Burnaby.
Remember it well. Use to attend most races in the late 60's and early 70's. Especially when Eppie Weatshie (sp) ran the Ford GT 40 around the track. Started volunteering as a corner worker in April 72 but transferred to Edmonton in May 72.
The Sports Car Club of B.C. was not compensated by the province or the City of Coquitlam, for breaking the 99 year lease. The debt is outstanding, and the SCCBC is expecting this to be addressed.
Do you remember when the Centennial mini came to Weswood from eastern Canada ? An A sedan race , they started the mini last , after all the cars were in the carousel and beyond , the mini was as fast as a formula junior , it arrived back at the start finish first and seconds ahead of the next place cars .
That was me ? SCCBC allowed the car to run for no points . At that time Sedans had 4 classes D started 1st. 15 seconds between each class A sedan last. I was at the back of B sedan. John Hall caught me before the finish .I was 2nd overall. The spectators enjoyed. I was then invited to join SCCBC if I made the Mini to Conference specs or FIA Group 2. Lap time was 1.19. Also was invited to run the Players Pacific as a mobile spectator as Eppie Wietze, John Cordts passed me every 7 laps..
@ Regardless if it was the bike club, Karting club, or the car club, it was “Mountain High Racing” at its best 👍 Westwood maybe long gone, but the memories will never end! ( my family belonged to the bike club since 1969) Cheers 🍻
Many happy memories watching the races at Westwood. I’ll throw in my 2 cents worth, being a North Van guy, I agree with others, it’s most likely BCIT. I remember watching a gymkhana event at Ambleside Beach in West Vancouver, just try and imagine that being done now!
It could also be "B" lot at UBC. I did a few gymkhana's there. I first discovered Westwood in 1973 when I was 13. I was a marshal until I got my competition licence in 1978 and raced there until it closed. To this day, I haven't been to Westwood Plateau. I just can't......
I am an area resident; I took "drivers' training" there and had numerous photos of actual Ford GT 40's taken with my brownie camera. Residents called it "wet-wood"
I have pics of Gilles Villeneuve racing formula atlantic before he went to F1, also pic of Bobby Rahal (when he had HAIRS) and Michael Andretti, to name a few. The go-kart race track was beside the big race track, Michael Valiante cut his teeth over there. Yup those were the days..........Mountain High Racing!
great track if not a bit risky. Was there for a Formula Atlantic race when Keke Rosberg ran the "Excita condoms" sponsorship on his car. Scandalous. LOL. I still have a Mountain High Racing badge that I cant bring myself to put on my current fire suit. Would ruin it forever.
Residents would have complained about the noise within weeks of moving there. No matter how much you tell them "you chose to buy near a race track" they would eventually win.
@ haha, that’s true! I have friends who bought a house near the PNE, then proceeded to lobby the government to have the Fair closed and turned into a ‘more natural’ park! Haha. People are weird. Like people who buy houses near public parks and then complain about the noise of pickleball! That being said, the noise of Westwood was LOUD!
@@stinkfinger630 I live in Victoria and often see news articles and letters to the editor about people buying homes on the Saanich Peninsula near farms then complaining about the smell in the summer. I never got to a race at Westwood but I was once at the Gastown Grand Prix (a bike race) and they drove some race cars around the track before the bike race. Even though they weren't going full throttle it was deafening echoing off the downtown buildings. I certainly wouldn't want to live beside a race track. I love car racing, but not THAT much! :)
@ They used to run the Molson Indy in Vancouver around BC PLACE/ False Creek and I lived in East Vancouver about 10 klicks away. When those cars opened up, the SCREAM from the filled the city: bounced off the buildings and north shore mountains. Incredible!
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My dad was the caretaker there for the last 6 years the track was open. We lived there year round during that time! Our mobile overlooked the start/finish line! Was a great place for me as an older kid to young teen to experience! Many amazing memories for myself and my dad! I will be forwarding this to him! Thank you bring back so many great memories!
I have this memory of being a kid coming here with my dad and grandpa after the track closed. We came to take some of the lumber from the grandstands I believe i still have some of it around with that teal green paint on it. I remember making the long hike up from the gate to find the caretaker to open it so we could drive up and load the truck.
@chrisbrooks2963 Yes, that would have been my dad, Dave.
My dad used to take us to Westwood on Sundays to watch the motorcycle races. Trev Deeley was a regular.
I miss this racetrack. :(
My dad would take me and my brothers there to watch some races on random evenings in the late(r) 80s. Great memories of being a kid and watching for Datsun 510s! Thanks for posting.
Great track! I raced there in 1983. Thanks for the memories.
miss this track so much, got to learn how to race RZ350 2 stroke class here. Steve Crevier, Gary Goodfellow, Ken Lalonde, Miguel DuHamel....
The gymkhana event takes place in the BCIT parking lot. The white building at 4:53 is the BCIT Library, and still stands today (but is painted a different color).
Trevor your right the gymkhana was at BCIT. I was a student at the time and a member of the BCIT Sports Car Club.
7 hr enduro with Ramon was the start of my apprenticeship. That was a magical time in our country. We who where their all experienced the best time in the history of Canada. It will never be that way again.😢
I recall going to Westwood track many times in the later 1960' and early 1970's for car and motorcycle racing. In the mid to late 1990's having become an accountant, I had a client who built dozens of houses and townhouses there. In one case, when they were doing their site excavations, they uncovered hundreds if not thousands of old tires that someone had buried on the site rather than having them hauled away. Fortunately, my client was able to get Wesbild, the main developer, to pay for their removal.
@@DavidM2002 LOL!!!! I remember the tire dump! It was by the the old Moto Cross track (if you remember that) Early 70’s,Me and my brothers used to go play in that tire dump when dad was racing his bike. Cheers to ya for that memory 🍻
Nice to see Wetwood again.
In the early 70's (I was 10 yrs old) and worked with my dad on deer's leap as a corner marshal for years.
When I turned 16 in 1976 I took drivers training in a Honda civic and the year before my dad took drivers training in a 1969 396 chevelle SS that had a 4 spd Muncie. Four wheel drum brakes it had. Lots of go but no stop.
In 1978 I won the Westwood claimers class championship and I hold the track record for that class ( 1:28.03 ). It was a class specifically for Datsun 510's and after two races anyone could claim your car for $1200 and you could claim someone else's. I was later renamed Westwood class but no claiming.
In 1982 I won the GT3 championship in Conference and that qualified me to run at the nationals at Mid Ohio. We had no money left and I couldn't go.
That Porsfhe is most likely Charlie Godecke. He was a lunatic -- LOL and was later a driving instructor at Rivers Edge race track in Mission.
He was our driving instructor for my brother and I when after many years I renewed my license.
That Brabham could be John OR Bob Randall.
I remember Bob and Hilda Randall well. He was our President for decades and Hilda did our licenses. They were VERY nice people.
I think I still have a super 8 film of my dad's chevelle from inside the car running at Westwood. No sound on that camera as I recall. Not sure where it is but we wouldn't have a projector anymore and my dad passed away in 2020. Mom still with us but she just turned 92 a few days ago. Still on her own. Good for you mom !!
Unfortunately I'm old now too ------ 64. Time is evil.
By the way --- Hi Al Ores if you are seeing this.
To Tracy Germain --- You got robbed girl.
The GT3 championship trophy is at my house but it should be at yours.
You are hellish fast girl but Andy never gave you a car that stayed together.
You are a champion but it's just not official.
I had a Westwood Racing T-shirt, Mountain High Racing. Datsun 510 fan back in the day.
I was a member of the BC (Burnaby Coquitlam) Sports Car club in the early 1970s and we manned (with wives and girlfriends always on site) a marshal’s station on the outside of turn 1 overlooking the carousel and therefore often busy when folks would spin out. Many memories of long days standing in the rain appreciating how Wetwood earned its nickname
Members of our club, who worked for BCTel, strung the sound system around the track as several of them were linesmen and skilled at working up poles.
I took driver training there with my friend Jaz, we used his Datsun 510 with my tires! so much fun! Remember the bikes doing wheelies over dear's leap, (Allan Dick?) I talked to him about it and he said it was kinda tricky because at that speed you couldn't let it get to high or the wind would catch it and flip you over! I made the sprockets for his bike.
Cool to see, I raced a Titan Mk3 there in 1985/86. I remember Al Oars, Felim Power, Mike Witters {who I bought my car off} Trevor Shaw, Tim Mitchell, Dan Hodap,, Someone named Charles from the US among others. What a great track and a great time! I can still do a lap in my head.
I raced Formula Ford there until the track closed in 1990. It was a fairly primitive place, but very challenging. I’d forgotten about the huge swamp inside of turn 1! There were a lot of places to hurt yourself, including Deers Leap, where marshals had a special flag to warn of deer by the edge of the track.
I drove Westwood many times with the BMW & Alfa club. We were among the last clubs to use the track before it closed for development. Such great memories. Too bad we have nothing like that anywhere in the Lower Mainland.
Mission has a track but I don't know if it's this big
I rode the train to Westwood from Vancouver ( Washington that is) in 1979 for the Trans Am races and drove up in 1980. Fun track and I still a ticket holder from Westwood.
Very challenging and wonderful small race track !!!!!~~~~~ Nice work...
The red #10 Porsche 911 is probably Charly Godecke. And the #22 silver-blue Brabham is John Randall.
Was that Bert’s Automotive 911?
@@briancavanagh7048 Probably. I had lunch with Charly recently.
Thanks!
Thank you!
I have vague memories of a King Cobra, a chev Can Am car (Donahue's?) a green 289 Cobra and a car going airborne into the trees off Deers Leap
I remember Corvettes and Minis swapping places on the straights and the corners, with Morgans in the mix.
I Was there in 1978 to see Herb Adams SCCA Silverbird 366 ci. RA IV 600 HP Trans Am but it Wasn't there to do scheduling - it finished 2nd at The California Laguna Seca SCCA Race that year ahead of all the Porsches and A # of BBC Vettes etc 😎
I’m 3rd generation tri cities, what great history keep them coming
Sure had a lot of fun driving our street cars around up there in the early to mid 90s.
It was a great place to learn how to drive and to practice your skills
The images at 4:58:07 are NOT in North Vancouver where I grew up. The North Shore mountains are far too distant to be in North Van. I looked at some recent photos I took from QE Park and can identify Grouse Mountain in your video and the closer mountain which has to be Burnaby Mountain. That makes this parking lot in Burnaby and by the angle in northwest Burnaby.
I would guess that it's the BCIT parking lot. I grew up in the area and remember the distant sounds of squealing tires on weekends.
@@robhughes2890Agreed. it looks like the BCIT East parking lot. Parked there starting in 1992
Remember it well. Use to attend most races in the late 60's and early 70's. Especially when Eppie Weatshie (sp) ran the Ford GT 40 around the track. Started volunteering as a corner worker in April 72 but transferred to Edmonton in May 72.
Anyone else remember Andy Mahood?
Cheers from the S2S, and ex- car and motorcylist amateur.
The Sports Car Club of B.C. was not compensated by the province or the City of Coquitlam, for breaking the 99 year lease. The debt is outstanding, and the SCCBC is expecting this to be addressed.
Do you remember when the Centennial mini came to Weswood from eastern Canada ? An A sedan race , they started the mini last , after all the cars were in the carousel and beyond , the mini was
as fast as a formula junior , it arrived back at the start finish first and seconds ahead of the next place cars .
I was there 👍😎 Along with every other major event. Me and my friends talk about Westwood all the time. Cheers 🍻
That was me ? SCCBC allowed the car to run for no points . At that time Sedans had 4 classes D started 1st. 15 seconds between each class A sedan last. I was at the back of B sedan. John Hall caught me before the finish .I was 2nd overall. The spectators enjoyed. I was then invited to join SCCBC if I made the Mini to Conference specs or FIA Group 2. Lap time was 1.19. Also was invited to run the Players Pacific as a mobile spectator as Eppie Wietze, John Cordts passed me every 7 laps..
@ Regardless if it was the bike club, Karting club, or the car club, it was “Mountain High Racing” at its best 👍 Westwood maybe long gone, but the memories will never end! ( my family belonged to the bike club since 1969) Cheers 🍻
Someone needs to rebuild an exact copy of this track. I watches many bikes taking the deer's leap.
Many happy memories watching the races at Westwood. I’ll throw in my 2 cents worth, being a North Van guy, I agree with others, it’s most likely BCIT. I remember watching a gymkhana event at Ambleside Beach in West Vancouver, just try and imagine that being done now!
It could also be "B" lot at UBC. I did a few gymkhana's there. I first discovered Westwood in 1973 when I was 13. I was a marshal until I got my competition licence in 1978 and raced there until it closed. To this day, I haven't been to Westwood Plateau. I just can't......
We sat at hairpin and got totally pissed and drove like racers on are rz 350s around poco....good times I say
Hung out there a lot from 79 until it closed. Got to work pitt for a trans am team from Cali. Too bad most of the tracks have gone.
I am an area resident; I took "drivers' training" there and had numerous photos of actual Ford GT 40's taken with my brownie camera. Residents called it "wet-wood"
I have pics of Gilles Villeneuve racing formula atlantic before he went to F1, also pic of Bobby Rahal (when he had HAIRS) and Michael Andretti, to name a few. The go-kart race track was beside the big race track, Michael Valiante cut his teeth over there. Yup those were the days..........Mountain High Racing!
Is the autocross event featured in the second bit the UBC parking lot?
I loved going to Westwood, sadly i was moved to the interior from Richmond and then the NIMBY's took over and closed it for subdivisions.
Porsche 904, I thought it looked familiar.
That North Vancouver footage has to be Capilano College, now university.
Mountain high racing
I still have the sweatshirt
I was one of the poor sea cadets standing out in the pouring rain directing traffic.
great track if not a bit risky. Was there for a Formula Atlantic race when Keke Rosberg ran the "Excita condoms" sponsorship on his car. Scandalous. LOL. I still have a Mountain High Racing badge that I cant bring myself to put on my current fire suit. Would ruin it forever.
Got my eye brows burnt of push starting the britten gary goodfellow was riding
Why didn’t they give the car club a place for a new track as they promised?
My friend Dick She'd raced his Cooper S he bought a fiberglass trunk lid there from another racer
to bad the developement coundnt have been built around the track as an racing enthuthiast complex development
Too much money to be made!
Residents would have complained about the noise within weeks of moving there. No matter how much you tell them "you chose to buy near a race track" they would eventually win.
@ haha, that’s true! I have friends who bought a house near the PNE, then proceeded to lobby the government to have the Fair closed and turned into a ‘more natural’ park! Haha. People are weird. Like people who buy houses near public parks and then complain about the noise of pickleball! That being said, the noise of Westwood was LOUD!
@@stinkfinger630 I live in Victoria and often see news articles and letters to the editor about people buying homes on the Saanich Peninsula near farms then complaining about the smell in the summer.
I never got to a race at Westwood but I was once at the Gastown Grand Prix (a bike race) and they drove some race cars around the track before the bike race. Even though they weren't going full throttle it was deafening echoing off the downtown buildings. I certainly wouldn't want to live beside a race track. I love car racing, but not THAT much! :)
@ They used to run the Molson Indy in Vancouver around BC PLACE/ False Creek and I lived in East Vancouver about 10 klicks away. When those cars opened up, the SCREAM from the filled the city: bounced off the buildings and north shore mountains. Incredible!
I should not have eaten a hamburger there.
😁
Nice but I really hate the AI narrative.
What AI narrative? It's literally the guys voice if you see his update videos.
Dick Shed