History Historic Stock Car Photos

Too many old tracks lost to the mercy of politicans and greed.

Lakewood in Atlanta, one mile dirt. Nashville fairgrounds, 1/2 mile asphalt

Who is that on the flag stand???

 

great shots......thanks

I see Joe Ruttman, Donnie Allison.....do you know the other drivers??

Is that Wilksboro?

 

This is Don Brady of Sioux Falls, SD. The Baracuda was run in 1971 and 72 with over 30 feature wins. The Headhunters car ran in 1973 and 74. I will be getting the Baracuda in the spring for resto and to race in Wisconsin and South Dakota some times with Don driving. All I need is to put the motor together, a trans, new seat and harness. Every thing is else is there, down to the headers.

 

1982 ascot, ca. pretty cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqnlROnVFoY

 

That car in the middle looks like the same team that supplied a car to Bill Elliott in the 80's at the Snowball Derby. Team was Sims-Harwell or Simpson-Harwell, something like that. car #81.
For the record, Elliott competed in the '81 and '82 Derbies and finished 34th and 32nd, respectively. I don't remember if he drove the Sims/Harwell car in both of them.

 

Looks like Rockingham. 98 Johnny Rutherford, 6 Joe Ruttman, 12 Donnie Allison, 16 David Pearson, 67 Buddy Arrington. Not sure about the 57.

 

The #57 Performer Boats/Cobra car could be Bill Elswick, if the information on Wikipedia is anywhere near accurate.

 

chuckles0 - are these a couple of your dad's cars ? I probably have many others. Which other numbers did he use / which other drivers drove for him ?
vegas-oldtimer

 

Aw, dang it, Indy. Bad, Sad News about Chick. I half expected it though - Mickey has kind of hinted at it on the Dayton Speedway Lives Website. I was at Dayton the night of the BIG FIRE. I never thought Chick would get out alive, nonetheless recover and run another fifty years or so. Everybody knew Chick. Forever, it seems. He's the only person I know that Tony Stewart gave a "Lifetime Pass" to, to get into Eldora Speedway. All of racing will miss him.

Vegas_Oldtimer

 

Bill Venturini
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Falconred, you hit one for me. That's yours truly on the flagstand, doing practice and qualifying at Nashville. Put the goggles on because I had been hit with a couple of rocks early in the session. I had on a new pair of glasses, having had my old ones broken by a similar incident at Winchester a couple of weeks before. Thanks for the new photo for my collection.

Vegas, as I said I was also truly saddened.

BTW, although the politicians seem to have the upper hand, the fight for the Nashville fairgrounds is not over yet.

 

Believe that is Atlanta. These are from the same show.

 

While we're talking about tracks no longer around, I'd like to add the "old" Atlanta track. Changing that from a pure oval to its current configuration was a mistake, in my opinion. There are too few ovals left.

I recall our first visit there with ASA, and after I got in the flagstand, Rex Robbins radioed, "What's it look like, Potts." I told him it was like Salem with a thyroid problem.

 

I believe you are right, it is Simpson not Sims. The car was driven by several folks over the years. Max's regular driver in earlier times was Buck Simmons when they ran at Dixie on asphalt and other tracks around on dirt. Max put several different drivers in the car at Ga Int. Bill drove it there as did Buck, Butch Lindley and Earnhardt. By the way on the night shown, Dale backed it into the fourth turn wall and damaged the fuel cell. They took a fuel cell out of Jody Ridley's trailer where he kept extra fuel and mounted it in Max's car and Dale won the race.
Here's Buck and Butch Lindley.

 

I believe you are right, it is Simpson not Sims. The car was driven by several folks over the years. Max's regular driver in earlier times was Buck Simmons when they ran at Dixie on asphalt and other tracks around on dirt. Max put several different drivers in the car at Ga Int. Bill drove it there as did Buck, Butch Lindley and Earnhardt. By the way on the night shown, Dale backed it into the fourth turn wall and damaged the fuel cell. They took a fuel cell out of Jody Ridley's trailer where he kept extra fuel and mounted it in Max's car and Dale won the race.
Here's Buck and Butch Lindley.

 

Was that the race where Balough hit the wall in turn 1? Did you all run in conjunction with the trucks??

 

That # 97 Mustang is David Jones at Anderson Speedway. David owns Superior Hydraulics on the Belton Anderson Hwy

 

That # 97 Mustang is David Jones at Anderson Speedway. David owns Superior Hydraulics on the Belton Anderson Hwy

 

does anyone have a picture of the team car to the GOne that Ed Howe drove. It was identical to his but I believe the number was GoIng

 

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How about a color picture of the #1 in post 4104.. I run around with Ralph ODay's son in law and want to build a modle of it.. Thanks

 

Falconred, I remember Butch Miller hitting the wall in Turn 1 during qualifying on our first trip there. We were with CART that time. I was impressed because Pancho and a group of CART drivers came over to see how he was. He was OK.

We did run once with the trucks at Atlanta. I remember one of those guys hitting the wall coming off Turn 4 and debris flying so high it was ridiculous. I looked up and a huge piece was like a mortar shell, headed for the flagstand. It missed. When all the stuff stopped falling, I looked over at the pit wall and saw two hands reach over, then one of our guys pulled himself up slowly and said, "Has it stopped yet?"

 

Sport Coupe 62, I had to dig for it, but I found it. Tom Maier drove that car, and it was GoIng, and the second of the two Howe Green Hornets. This photo was taken at Berlin in 1973, I believe.

 

As a young "broke" photographer, I only used Black & White film because I could buy it for about fifteen cents a roll, if I bulk-loaded it in my own darkroom, from a hundred foot roll. Never did color, until I had a real job. However, this car is easy to remember. Red. All red, with white trim. The wheels were silver, I believe. Also, I have another Ralph O'Day # 1 car from earlier - it's a'65 or '66 full size Ford. I'll look for it and post it here.

The Oldtimer

 

Awesome pics from the midwest late 60's & 70's...Trickle ,Shear, Kulwicki, Nesbitt, Refner, Sauter, Schill, Howe, Miller,the list goes on and on!......Dirt and asphalt!...Some of the best lettering jobs came out of the Illinois area!!!! Reminds me of the good old days! Keep em coming!!!

 

Thanks as I said my father was photographer at Columbus, Salt Creek Valley (Circleville) and Southern Ohio.. As soon as I get my scanner working I will start posting some

 

The photos in this post are already plenty big. Bigger than they need to be for web display at least. When you click on the thumbnails they open up bigger in the same window. Click on that image and it will open even bigger in a new window. Click on that image and it will open to 100% and display larger than any monitor can show completely without scrolling the page up and own and side to side.

If you want them to appear larger in the actual forum page, don't make them any bigger than maybe 800x600 pixels. Otherwise you'll break the forum frames and you'll end up having to scroll from side to side. Also, lots of large images really slows down the page loading, especially for folks who still have dial-up or slower internet connections.

If you're using Windows, move your cursor over a picture and then RIGHT click. On the menu that opens, left click on "Properties". This will give you the image's pixel dimensions so you can get an idea what size you need. Computers are kind of stupid when it comes to inches, all they really care about is pixels.

 

A few pictures of Chick Hale

 

Here'e some from the Western Pennsylvania area. 43 on trailer is the great Ohio driver Bob James in the infield at Heidelberg. The 38 is Buddy O'Connor, 1954 and 1966 Pittsburgh racing Assn. champ. The other four are from Heidelberg after it was paved.

 

I remember watching them make a pit stop with the trucks, it took two men to lift the jack over the wall. There was a lot of tire chunking going on. Very little inb the way of roll bars on most of them.

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