History Historic Stock Car Photos

oops...still learning here.........

Hope the photos attach this time.........

 

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7/71 at berg

 

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a real oldie

 

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late summer 71

 

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9-71 at berg

 

Bobby Allison is supposed to be in Byron Ga. this weekend for a reunion show at the old Byron Speedway

 

Alright here's a wild one at Hberg..........8 photo crash sequence from the 68 season.........

I will try to identify what I can here....anyone can help on IDs just chime in.......

Let's cover the first 4 shots in this post........and next post the remaining ones....

BTW........photos from Russ Lewellen, track photographer at the time.

photo 1) the mishap starts with 353 Tom McMillen spinning on the high side in the #70 is Larry Peters

photo 2) As McMillen spins #30 Bill McCracken gets by..........

photos 3) and 4) Then things come unglued........with #61 Bob Wearing, #71 Ron Hineman, #24 Bil Adams, #11 Reggie "Bud" Vasko, #65 Ed Holzer and #55 Bob Ashbrook all get tangled up in turn three.....

 

Wasn't Jack Sullivan the 'Sully' in "by Sully & McCall" on the fender of Fred Lorenzen's #28 Holman -Moody Fords?

 

Continuing the crash at Hberg......
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Photos 5) and 6) Others involved in the malay include #98 Augie Sandman, #47 Ed Mitchell, #7 Don Gregory, #4 Harold Smith and #33 Jimmy Bickerstaff...........that's Ed Holzer climbing out of his ragtop #65 after things settle in photo 6.......
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Photos 7) and 8) in the aftermath you can see the results with drivers out of their cars.........Harold Smith is on the left of photo 7 and Jimmy Bickerstaff in the #33 football jersey wearing the helmet is watching a crew push away Don Gregory's car in photo 8.....note the primer on Bickerstaffs 33 from a previous weeks crash repairs........how about those driver uniforms?
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arca racers reunion @ toledo speedway this Saturday,,,

lots of old drivers from the midwest short tracks,,, like Joy Fair will be there.

RACER'S REUNION/MARFC MEETING: Saturday, March 12. Reunion is open to EVERYONE, free admission! Great day with old photos, etc....if you raced around the area, there's probably a photo somewhere of you and your ride! Reunion is Noon to 5, with Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Mark this date on your calendar. And just announced, we will have a LIVE BAND after the meeting!

http://www.arcaracing.com/news_flatrock.php?contentid=10490

 

For those of you who seen the ARCA short track racers back in the day,,,here are some vids form Flat rock Speedway with the newer generation of drivers...

Stan Yee Jr. is driving the #33 yellow car,,his dad was not a driver,, but a great midwest car builder and car owner.

Eric Lee is driving,,he is a 3 rd generation driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKorzMY8hjk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIMEv-d4l2s&feature=related

these are 2,700 lbs with the driver race rece ready and Nascar Cup type engines.


Joy Fair raced utill he was about 70,,,

here is a vid of him at Flat rock speedway in michigan in the 1990's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24p5ybsTVdk&NR=1


JOY FAIR RETIREMENT Ceremony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTK0WcvZhk&feature=related

 

Hberg lives:
if you have any pics of draimes hauler from 72,please try to post them. i helped in building that thing and have not seen many pics of it...if you saw it we brought both cars in it.
jerry

 

Wow Bushy....... I have that clipping and was there that day........that crash to Jim Burns car was unreal........Jim Benning was suppose to drive that car that hit his during qualifying but he was late to the track and his car owner decided to qaulify it.......he was an old fellow and lost control of the car down the front straight and plowed right into the sittitng car of Jim Burns.....the whole tank blew up in a fire ball in shock to all present..........everyone escaped injury.....I actually have that crash on an old home movie coverted to video from a libary the Miley family owns (Ben Miley raced there in the claimer division) His mom captured the tail end of that crash on film I have it somewhere in my tape library.

 

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top pic is middaugh in vince carneys #26...he drove it some in 71
#84 is don amity,s car i believe bud won a feature in late 70 with it at the berg

 

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the berg opens in 72

 

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bill konzcos at berg 1971

 

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bud middaugh and the late tony diano at the berg 1970

 

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ed mitchell at the berg 1972

 

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bill mccracken in bob mays car at berg 1971

 

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kenny hemphill at berg

 

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joy fair and don gregory at berg

 

Stan Yee Jr. is driving the #33 yellow car,,his dad was not a driver,, but a great midwest car builder and car owner.


Joy Fair raced utill he was about 70,,,


JOY FAIR RETIREMENT Ceremony

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Bushy thanks for the links I really enjoyed that!


BTW.........Did you see the Pgh 250 in 1971??........do you remember what happened to Stan Yees car that year???

Well Joe Ruttman was running it.......and he made a pit stop in the inner circle of the quater mile/figure 8 pavement area and decided to take a short cut through the grass to try to get back out on the track before the pace car came around to avoid losing a lap........so he drove through the grassy area of the infield but unbeknowst to him was this big storm drain dip in the infield so he came flying over that and dipped down in it and when he came up the other side it launched the front end of the car up in the air like a wheelie standing drag racer...I though he destroyed the underside and shocks/suspension of the car but he kept Stan's ole junkyard dog going in race without losing a lap.........hehe

and Joy Fair..............couple quick Fair stories here of many I remember.........when Joy turned 65 yrs old in retirement age he was asked "what do you think about reaching retirement age?" and he jokingly said........"I think its great now I can stop working and race full time!"

another time I was at the McDonald's out in front of Toledo Speedway after an Iceman series race in the early 90's in which Joy wasn't racing that night because he had just sold his car and hadn't built a new one yet.....There is a big crowd of people at Micky D's getting something to eat after the race and then I notice a crowd in the dinning area gathered around this real tall guy with a Detroit Tigers baseball cap on...

.........well I nudge my friend and and say, "hey that's Joy Fair over there!"......

So we order our food and the guy at the counter asks us what is all the attention going on with that guy over there.....and noticing the baseball cap the counter guy says to us......."is that Al Kaline??" (Tiger HOF home run great)............

I pause for a minute and say....."uh ........yeah.........that's Al alright!"

So we get our food and go over to Joy and talk to him for a bit while he is signing all these autographes and tell him who the counter guy thought he was..........Joy laughs and shakes his head.................then this counter guy comes over and ask for Joy's autograph so he signs it " Best wishes - Al Kaline"...........

After the guy leaves and goes back to work at the counter, Joy looks over at us and winks while we laugh our butts off...........

BTW.....I think I have some photos of that Draime big rig hauler and will post them soon.....

 

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larry moore and tom maier at berg 1971

 

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paul sibila #48 and brother bob in#56 and #63 at berg

 

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the old "bluebird" bob senneker at berg 1971

 

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the late tony delilo after a hard crash at the berg in 1971

 

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joe vigleone #61 and joe ruttman at berg 1971

 

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tom colella 1972 at berg

 

Bushy.......great stuff, I have almost no newspaper clippings so those have really helped my memory in those races I saw...........those photos are great too!

 

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more at the berg 1972