Spent some time at Wendover when I lived there, but used to spend a LOT of time at the old Salt Lake Raceway. Learned to pilot sports cars around there and watched some really great drivers get their starts on the salt track.
Drove my first and only Formula Vee rig there in about 1961-62. Came in third behind some hotshot dentist whose name I can't remember, and a Utah highway cop named Marvin Dennison. Five cars finished behind me, two others didn't finish at all.
Watched Ak Miller run a Devin-Olds Pikes Peak car for six laps after the oil pan dumped itself dry and he still came in second with a totally cooked mill. A friend of mine bought the car for something like $400, rebuilt the engine and trans, stuck some odds and ends on it and raced for another five years. Never won anything, but he was driving a Miller car.
Lots of MGs, Jags, TR3 and 3A, Lotus Seven flying shingles, and the like. I bought a Vanwall GP car that someone had rebodied into the world's ugliest roadster, but it ran like a champ. Lots of Sprites and AH 100s and early 3000s. Toward the end there seemed to be a larger number of Mustangs, 'Vettes, a few Alpines and a Tiger or two, and some Porsches.
Every now and again someone would spring a Ferrari or birrdcage Maser on us, and once a Lister-Jag.
Now see what you went an' did...Got me all nostalgic.
Dang old Crown Vic doesn't seem like much any more.