60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

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This one was a figure 8 car we used to sponsor.

 

Anyone Familliar with the old Monroe WA dirt track??

I might have a line on a couple cars, anyone have any pics of the Fox Special model T??

 

Man looks like Miss Geraldine had a bit of a rough night>>>>.

 

I have a lot of old photos that I would like to post and share. Can someone please tell me how to get them posted in a larger size like all the ones above on this page? Thanks

 

What I do is save my photos to Photobucket.com . You can download like 6 photos from your files at a time. There are 4 boxes under each photo after they have been down loaded. use the botton box with in the code. Highlight it by right clicking and using another window for HAMB paste it into your post. It is much easier then it sounds.
It is a free account and I have about 400 photos in mine. You can also store videos there.
Good luck.

Emil

 

Kenny Shoemaker @ Fonda John Grady photo

 

Thanks Emil! It worked great! I have a lot of photos to share... I will as I have time

 

Lenny Boehler's coupe... Photographer unknown

 

I have many, many more from our local race track website but they are protected and I can only save them in my folder on the site.
Many photos of Charlie J, Evans, Jerry Cook, Allison, DeAngelo, and many old timers.
Retroridesbyrich would be the one with many old coupe and coaches. I know he checks out the site because he knew it was me on my first post.
He's very knowledgable about the mods that ran in the mid 60s-80s. I would hope to think he still has those photos. Then again, his building rods might keep him from haing time to scan photos.

Sorry about getting O/T guys.

 

How did a pic of my "?" get on here?

I haven't run any races this year .

 

hey randomrodder- just post a link to the local tracks website, and we can go over there and check 'em out.

 

Is this"?"car one you ran in the 60S or a reproduction of one.I remember one from back then my family would go to Waterford Speedway,and Thompson in Ct.I was raised about a mile from Thompson we would also go to Westborough Speedway back then I remember these cars "?" "$"the "Cent Sign"my mom had family that raced Waterford and my dads best friend ran our home track of thompson and westborough there were quite a few "Symbol "cars but these are the ones i can remember from 50 years back

 

This is my Favorites Album there.
http://www.racerhub.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=fav

I hope you can get into it. From there you can get to the main page of LongIslandJam.com Scroll down mid page on your right, Nostalgia and explore.

Good luck Bro,

Emil

EDIT: I put the wrong URL in.

 

I do a lot of surfing concerning modifieds. This one REALLY caught my eye. And I had to have it. I hope you don't mind my posting it if it is your Mod. And, if it is. you've got a darned nice looking Mod.

 

are your pics under the name jfp711? either way there are a ton of cool pics there

 

Sonney Seamon @ Shangri-La John Grady or Fred Smith photo

 

Here's my favorite driver growing up. Lee Osborne! I got a chance to meet and talk with him after 35 or more years. He was nice enough to autograph my coat




The flying Dutchman dutch Hoag with Bobby Merz


The famed s-360 of Don Diffendorf at Lancaster Speedway



Some vintage Merv Treichler photos the third picture is at Rolling Wheels Speedway along with Gary Iulg and Chuck Akulis in the famous pink #3


The "Sandman" Chuck Ciprich also at The Wheels


Bentley Warren way back in the day. He is still running Super Modified at Oswego Speedway to this day


Mike Loeshers white #88. I remember he or someone else built a street legal replica to this car back then.

 

How about this Little Lee Fan... That is my father in the #48

 

What track is that? Looks like Fulton or Spencer? Glad to see your dad was ok

 

Anybody have any pictures ?

 

No Jon but, Look for Howie's albums. LOTS of great photos there. None that you can glom though.

 

No, bit the number and name sound vaguely familiar.

 

Little Lee... That was Shangri-La

 

It's great seeing a pic of my "?" car here. The story goes it was an original old modified from the late 60's - early 70's from Virginia. I have no history to confirm this.

Glad ya' like the looks of it. I put the hood sides on it. I think that helped with the look some. The primer on the roof is from where I straightened it out. I had a rollover wreck. I never had a chance to repaint it.

 

Lou Lazzaro @ Fonda when the pits were in the infield. John Grady Photo

 

Emil wrote:

Retroridesbyrich would be the one with many old coupe and coaches. I know he checks out the site because he knew it was me on my first post.
He's very knowledgable about the mods that ran in the mid 60s-80s. I would hope to think he still has those photos. Then again, his building rods might keep him from haing time to scan photos.



Hey Emil, yes I do check Peter's stuff out, he's a chip off the old block for sure! (But only the good part of the block!) Thanks for the compliments. While I fortunate enough to grow up in the "Golden Age of Modfied Racing" and saw all the greats, I didn't start shooting racing until 1980 (I was also the track photographer at Islip until the end) and after my stint at CT magazine and briefly SCR, I gave it up professionally for other pusuits. I do have a crap load of negatives and tranparencies though it's 80's stuff.

Is there a service to transfer negs to digital in bulk ? I don't have the time to print or the dark room any more.

Be cool, Emil...Long live Golden Chariots Magazine! You lived a dream even if the price was equal to having your balls hammered flat with a mallet!

 

OUCH, don't remind me. That hurt.

Pete wants to know if the negs are sheeted or strips or singles?

 

Negs are in strips, plus I have transparencies (slides)