60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

PULLED FROM A JUNE, 1970, LANCASTER (NY) SPEEDWAY PROGRAM -- GORDON REINIG PHOTOS.

Wes Stephenson (I've also seen his name spelled Stevenson) takes a ride...

 

Great photos again guys. Pete's site is gearing up for Long Island racing action so make sure you check out his link, there will be lots more in the weeks to come as action begins to build up.
Here is the Troyer/Daytona Video.
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George M: Forgive me, I grabbed your pics and worked on them in Adobe Photoshop...

 

does anyone know who the photographer was at shangri-la in the late 70's. id like to know if he has a few photos. thanks.

 

You're forgiven! Besides, they're not my photos. I found them on a website! And you fixed them up nice.

 

I believe it was Fred Smith, who has since passed away. I can't remember the name of the guy who bought his collection, but he appears at car shows in the central NY area I believe.

 

Also known as the Flying Fossil, and still driving (or was recently). Not sure if either of these was the car that ended up in the grandstands; I seem to recall that it was his #37 coupe.

 

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Graeme Bolia

 

Greco at Danbury

Greco

Greco at Stafford

Greco at Thompson

Greco in Mario Fiore car at Danbury

 

Greco at Fonda

Greco

Greco

More Greco

 

Stan Greger

G. Reiners

Groover Akulis

Gutt

Guy Chartland

 

Gary Winters

Hal Kracher

Halquist

Hal Karcher

Hal Karcher

 

Larry Groover

 

First name Bill, or Billy, of course!

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yup! I've posted a many before of Billy Greco!

 

That shot of Roy Halquist reminds me that a spare fast back body shell stood up against a retaining wall at the tire shop for a couple of years.

 

OK! Just keepin' it real LOL!
And just for the record; they also called him "Gramps".....

http://www.vintagemodifieds.com/billy_greco/photo_6.htm

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Hi, if it WAS Fred Smith, then I believe John Grady and former Gater News columnist Ted Schmidt purchased all of Fred's negatives. I helped scan/Photoshop/burn-to-CD a lot of them for Ted, but I did not see anything past '75, if I recall...

 

Here's what you can do for your old photos, using just an Adobe Photoshop program and some seat-of-the-pants trial-an'-error learning... It looks 100% better and it's not finished yet! There is hope for your old photos!




Tom Polizzi was kind enough to let me borrow this Gordon Reinig pic (most of Gordie's '72 negatives were lost) of Bob Merz at Lancaster (NY) Speedway in 1972. I promised to "fix" it and get it back to him. Thanks, Tom!

 

AUGUST 1973 LANCASTER (NY) SPEEDWAY PROGRAM (covering the Race of Champions Qualifier, won by Gary Iulg in the No. 22x Gil Bruss coupe). GORDON REINIG PHOTOS.







These are photos from the Wednesday-night RoC (Trenton) Qualifier and the regular Saturday-night show. Evans' appearance was a big deal in '73. Richie had patched up his differences with NASCAR and decided to compete for the NASCAR Modified championship -- and Lancaster instituted the ill-fated "Series '70" rule (all cars had to use '70-or-newer tin complete with hoods and front fenders) and Richie refused to alter his car. (By the time this race was run, Lancaster had dropped the rule and it was interesting to see who kept their fenders...) Richie ran at Lancaster almost every week from '69 to '72 but in '73 he only visited twice...

The No. 51 Gremlin is Gary Cornelius. The No. 99 Valiant is, of course, Geoff Bodine.

Say a prayer for Gordie tonight. He'll be laid to rest Saturday morning. -- JB

 

Perhaps Gordie Reinig's favorite photo: (L to R) Gordie, Roger and Merv Treichler at Gordie's coach at Lancaster (NY) Speedway, 1969. Gordon Reinig photo.

 

Dr. John: Great start on those models!! Where did you get the bodies? Neal

 

Bullfather: Where was that photo taken of the coupes # 40, 144, and 55? on this page. It says Groover Akulis under it. Thanks, Neal

 

the photos that i am looking for are from the late 70's and possibly early 80s.
Just looking for a few pictures of Lee Bray #67. ive seen one on here so far from 74'. he drove a mercury bobcat and capri in the central new york area. if you have any information on how i can obtain these photos i would very much appreciate it.

thanks
jeff

 

Dr. John, thanks for posting the pic of the #33 Bob Merz coach. I am gathering reference for a 1/8 scale build very similar to that car and the look of the #33 is just what I'm after. Nice!

Another good source for 1/25 resin model parts for modifieds, including bodies, many styles of wide five wheels and lots of other short track goodies....

http://www.fredsresinworkshop.com

 

The X2 coupe is Jack Buck.

 

I just looked at everything on that link. INCREDIBLE detail. I love it .

 

Starting to go through some old pics and thought it might be nice to share some. Most of my pics only go back to the mid-late 70s, I'm only 42, but the cars are still pretty sweet looking.

X3 is Jim Hendrickson, Durkin #12 and the #16 is Tom McCann. All shots are from Wall Stadium in NJ.

 

Thanks Dr. John and moddified driver, there are plenty of great photo references on this thread for model builders to choose.
http://members.fotki.com/chucky151/.

 

Hey sorry for no photos yesterday, I had two music shows friday and saturday night, two events at the race track saturday and today, now I'm relaxing. busy man!!!!

Hal Knight

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