60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

The color picture of the 44 in post 8943 is Riverside Park. Denny

 

I agree.

#44 .. the Screaming Yellow Zonker .. I'm having a senior moment (brain fade) ...... Who drove this car?

Screaming Yellow Zonkers was a popular popcorn product, but I doubt a sponsor. Rather I think it was the name of the car .. as such it has always stuck in my memory and always will.

 

Former Buzzie Reutimann car?

 

Here is a WILD STORY!!!!
Few pages back I posted this Pinto I saw in Harlem, some said it's too nice to cut up. Some of you might have actually read the for sale sign and saw he had a parts car.




Well here's the story!!! From Kjeyres on The Wall Stadium Message Board.

Thanks for posting it on the Jalopy Journal. <table class="bodytext" border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><nobr>Bought</nobr> it for $250. Real nice elderly <nobr>man</nobr> (88) from Manhattan. Stored it in North Jersey. He used it for parts for his restored Pinto. Gonna make a nice modified body one <nobr>day</nobr>. </td></tr></tbody></table>

 

The #44 ''Screamin' Yellow Zonker'' was a Mario Fiore car & driven by an & up & coming driver named Gary Coultari..hope thats right. He drove it for a few seasons & was doing well at the Park with it but tragically lost his life in motorcycle accident. Back then I got speedway scene, a NE racing paper at the time & one of the writers Toodi Gelinas knew him very well... & wrote about it in detail. The ride went to Reggie Ruggerio afterwards IIRC. Hope that helps. This is the best thread on racing history I've ever seen steve pellerin

 

#3 jack duffy coupe, is a former Buzzie 00 . If it's not a replica

 

the #3 is the real deal.

 

tHAT THE SAME ONE THAT WAS IN THE STORY-tHE LAST COUPE TO RACE AT DAYTONA- IN AN OLD ISSUE OF STOCKCAR RACING ?

 

That should be the one that Jack drove at Daytona....#30

http://www.floridastockcars.com/gallery3/v/Daytona/?g2_page=3

 

I was there for that race. Ran the modifieds on the road course.

I'm pretty sure Buzzie ran the same car in his colors the year or two before that in the same road course modified race.