History Historic Stock Car Photos

It's always great to see photo's from the past and it's very important for us to realize these guys really paved the way for the racing we have today.

Jimbo

 

is there any way I could get u to send the pic of neal thoma again thank u scott. sarosenbaum32@gmail.com

 

Scott I hate to tell you that John passed away in march 2017.

 

did you guys ever race at blue islandraceway?

 

hey peter pan; many years ago me and my best friend built a dirt car very much like the ford pictured, # 99. was a money pit!!!! but fun none the less.

 

hi custom cab; I once owned a Hudson wasp. hell of a car, only paid $75.00. got it cheap cause it wouldn't run. bad rotor and cap, and some gas.

 

Bucky Peek Sportsman owned by Mike Gray

 

This Henry J ran the Fonda speedway is the only known surviving car that ran the opening night.

The car ran of Warnerville N.Y. and is now owned by Mike Gray who is making in runnable.

In the Fonda Speedway book.


Check out the tow bar made from the stock lower A frame, the car was changed to Ford front axle.

 

...checkout the Buick hauler in the background......

 

This is an amazing thread full of racing history & photos! I just wanted to drop in and say thanks for all of this!

 

Freddy Smith

 

Scott Bloomquist

 

@Kyle Armstrong, while I really dug dirt Late Models from that era, we are only allowed to post cars up to 1965 here on this board. Jimmies Old Time Racing would have been a great place for those, sure had a good time back then in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Think DTWC.

 

Quote from the first post of this thread.. "I know I'm only an FNG, but how about a thread with stock car photos from the beginning through, say, 1985 or so?"
I felt like these met the criteria of this thread perfectly. I sincerely apologize.

 

You're right that John posted that when he started the thread, but the board rules only allow cars through '65. Not my rules, but not my board either. There was an awesome Modified thread on here that the mods closed because people insisted on posting Gremlins and Pintos.

 

West Liberty Iowa

 

So is this now car number 78?

 

Joe Weatherly in Bud Moore's #8, and Darel Dieringer in the Bill Stroppe #26

 

Wendell Scott with his '65 Galaxie, the car that won the 1965 Daytona 500 with Fred Lorenzen driving.

 

Pete Cory in the Bob Witbeck Flaming 22 top runner from upstate New York and top runner in the north east.


Dave Lape was such a Bob Witbeck fan he ran his car as the Flaming 22 in the mid 80's to his retirement about ten years ago.

 

Specking of Dave Lape this is his 40 Cadillac bodied Modified.
The car had a Camaro body that was getting beat up, and a Chevy coupe body was to small for the cage built for the Camaro.

 

This Henry J raced in the St Louis area originally in the mid 60's restored in 2011. It was then raced in vintage races. The gal with the car is my fiancé, and she drove it for two seasons

 

Thanks @Moriarity