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[*] posted on 3-4-2005 at 05:47 PM


The "San Felipe Zoo" was located on the East side of the road where the intersection is that you're talking about. They had a lot of carvings out front and "some" animals in cages. Don't know what else they had or sold (beer, soda, curios ??). The name did not come from the racers.
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[*] posted on 3-4-2005 at 07:21 PM


MrBillM, I meant to say the 'road' was named San Felipe Zoo Rd. by racers, not the curio shop along Hwy. 5.

Lou, the road was used by SCORE... I was a pit captain and ran the San Felipe pit for Los Campeones Racing Team. The race course for the 1979 Baja Internacional ('Baja 500') came south along the EAST side of Mex. 5, on a road midway between the highway and beach... then just about a half mile south of Pete's road, it turned west (where my pit was) and crossed Mex. 5, then wiggled south a short distance to reach the Zoo Road (keeping racers off the highway).

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[*] posted on 3-4-2005 at 08:02 PM


Until all of this big development push, there was a road (dirt) paralling Hghy5 about half way to the beach. Connected all the campos. I always figured it was the main access road to san felipe before they paved 5. Where you crossed 5 is about where the road shown on the Mex topo's was.

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[*] posted on 3-4-2005 at 08:59 PM


I remember watching some SCORE races that went along that road half way to the campos....forgot all about that after all those years...long time ago....:no:
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