Personal track in front yard -- largest private track in USA

Chuck Branscomb · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:42 pm

All you need is 275 acres and of course $7.5M.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Taghkanic,+New+York&hl=en&ll=42.128601,-73.712844&spn=0.005275,0.012274&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=45.8712,100.546875&vpsrc=6&hnear=Taghkanic,+Columbia,+New+York&t=h&z=17

Story:
http://jalopnik.com/5849231/in-his-front-yard-this-man-built-americas-largest-private-racetrack

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:12 pm

Makes me love America even more to read that...Holocaust survivor, barely thirty bucks in his pocket and now he's nearly a billionaire. Bravo! Oh, and that track layout is way cool.

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:57 am

I wonder if he needs a general handyman to work around the estate.

Chuck Branscomb · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:52 am

I suppose this is the dude's gallery from IMSA racing and wife?

http://teamwilzig.shutterfly.com/

...and track pictures: http://teamwilzig.shutterfly.com/434

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:57 am

There are 300+ acres over by me for sale off of Buffaloe rd. if everyone wants to go together and get it. :sing:

Chuck Branscomb · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:05 am

clinehall wrote:

I wonder if he needs a general handyman to work around the estate.

Cline,

Here in this video you can view your future surroundings and make plans: http://teamwilzig.shutterfly.com/pictures/399

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:48 am

Steven Carter wrote:

Makes me love America even more to read that...Holocaust survivor, barely thirty bucks in his pocket and now he's nearly a billionaire. Bravo! Oh, and that track layout is way cool.

look closer it says "son of". supposedly this dude did however improve on his daddy's fortune.

the wife is something else however............ :lol:

50 footer at least. :twisted:

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:54 am

steve remchak wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

Makes me love America even more to read that...Holocaust survivor, barely thirty bucks in his pocket and now he's nearly a billionaire. Bravo! Oh, and that track layout is way cool.

look closer it says "son of". supposedly this dude did however improve on his daddy's fortune.

the wife is something else however............ :lol:

50 footer at least. :twisted:

Ah, that's true....but then this: "Wilzig doubled the value of his late father's bank, The Trust Company of New Jersey, during the 2000s to amass a high-nine-figure family fortune when North Fork Bankcorp bought it in 2004." still, an impressive feat.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:02 am

Steven Carter wrote:

steve remchak wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

Makes me love America even more to read that...Holocaust survivor, barely thirty bucks in his pocket and now he's nearly a billionaire. Bravo! Oh, and that track layout is way cool.

look closer it says "son of". supposedly this dude did however improve on his daddy's fortune.

the wife is something else however............ :lol:

50 footer at least. :twisted:

Ah, that's true....but then this: "Wilzig doubled the value of his late father's bank, The Trust Company of New Jersey, during the 2000s to amass a high-nine-figure family fortune when North Fork Bankcorp bought it in 2004." still, an impressive feat.

impressive yes, but i wonder if he might have been involved in some of that mortgage bundling / sub-prime stuff? obviously he was market savvy as he sold just prior to the peak and of course the eventual crash.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

steve remchak wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

Makes me love America even more to read that...Holocaust survivor, barely thirty bucks in his pocket and now he's nearly a billionaire. Bravo! Oh, and that track layout is way cool.

look closer it says "son of". supposedly this dude did however improve on his daddy's fortune.

the wife is something else however............ :lol:

50 footer at least. :twisted:

Yeah, as soon as I saw him I was like, he is way to young to be a holocaust survivor, then I saw the wife. :shock:

It is good to be Alan Wilzig.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:35 pm

An entrepreneur who had a place near were I grew up did the same thing. I suspect the overall size might be larger, but the track width is not.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38 ... 6&t=h&z=16

I think he has now passed away, but he was Henry Payne and it was located not in his yard, but at his place of business. He was a big time sports car collector and historic racer. Note the skid pad shown near the bottom just north of I-64. The road that bisects that is the "road course". The NE corner (sharp turn) actually is an intersection and the start of a 1/4" mile drag up the drainage. At the end you turn west and there is a hillclimb section with a few switchbacks hidden in the trees (if you zoom in you can see the road under the trees). The exit of the hillclimb is visible as that short stub off the road coarse. The local SCCA that I started autocrossing with used to do two autocrosses each year at this location. One on the road course and one on the drag/hill climb. The track name was "Gartersnake" (I suspect as it was long and thin). I believe he kept his cars in the building located in the center of the road course.

Richard

Patrice Bousquet · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:36 pm

Not a race track but here something closer to here and its for sale....nice detach garage and the run up/down the driveway should be fun, there is even a bridge, look almost like a rally stage....

http://www.fmrealty.com/real-estate/ral ... =20&page=1

Location.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35 ... 17&vpsrc=6

Brian Marks · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:12 pm

This is the man I want to be when I grow up (but keeping existing wife and daughter of course). Dang!

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:57 pm

I watched the video, he has a Mini Cabrio and a Miata, obviously he has some issues and is trying to be like me. He has a few more toys but I am sure I can whip his a$$ on the golf course.

George Bright · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:16 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

An entrepreneur who had a place near were I grew up did the same thing. I suspect the overall size might be larger, but the track width is not.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38 ... 6&t=h&z=16

I think he has now passed away, but he was Henry Payne and it was located not in his yard, but at his place of business. He was a big time sports car collector and historic racer. Note the skid pad shown near the bottom just north of I-64. The road that bisects that is the "road course". The NE corner (sharp turn) actually is an intersection and the start of a 1/4" mile drag up the drainage. At the end you turn west and there is a hillclimb section with a few switchbacks hidden in the trees (if you zoom in you can see the road under the trees). The exit of the hillclimb is visible as that short stub off the road coarse. The local SCCA that I started autocrossing with used to do two autocrosses each year at this location. One on the road course and one on the drag/hill climb. The track name was "Gartersnake" (I suspect as it was long and thin). I believe he kept his cars in the building located in the center of the road course.

Richard

I remember Henry Payne used to be a regular at the Chimney Rock Hillclimb. I think he ran a Formula Ford.

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