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This picture of Dick Atkins in the number 98 Pestana and Lang Chevy was taken at Hanford at a CRA race in 1965. This is the car that Johnny...
I told Hank about the pictures you posted. He said he was pretty happy with his performance considering the fact that he didn't have much seat...
Perhaps Charlie Pritchard adhered to the saying ,"when in Rome, do as the Romans do". Reichenbach was well respected in the Chicago area and...
Johnny Thomson at Williams Grove 1954 taking a smoke break!
Michael, Thank you for having the intelligence to understand the question I had regarding the Fike Plumbing car and the guts to stick your neck...
I saw Bob drive the Alpern K.K. with the Booby Logan nose at a NASCAR midget race at Islip in 1958-59, The photo looks like it might have been...
Tony Saylor told me he had one K.K. and one Reichenbach. Tony bought the K.K. from Al Alpern's widow after Alpern lost his life at Grand Rapids...
That's not really part of the puzzle - just two guys holding a picture. When I figure the puzzle out you'll be the first to know.
Wasn't the Booby Logan midget that Gordon Johncock crashed formerly owned by Eddie Gdula?
Roy and Johnny, Please understand I joined H.A.M.B. to get information and give information to those people who needed help. I have no doubt that...
Jim, This is the only photo I have of the #25 car with the "Tuffy" legend on the side of the car. If anyone is interested the gentlemen from...
Jimmy was a clever guy. I believe he built the roadster in the picture I posted. Leroy Byers made a note on the back of that photo stating that...
narcchampion, I thought Sherman was dead when you purchased the car? Why did the NARC Yearbook say it was the former SOW Chevy? Was Parnelli...
When you can offer some proof that the Fike Plumbing Special went to Australia - let us all know. Stories about Joe Saldana, Roger Beck, John...
I know there was another Fike sprint car car, I believe that car was a Shilala. The fellow from Australia, that wrote me, believes the car Dee and...
So are you on board with my position that the "Fike car" in Australia is not the Fike Plumbing car that Parnelli drove? I received a very...
Doc, The driver who was killed at Grand Rapids was Al Alpern on 6/20/1957. Billy Garrett won the 50 Lap main.
Bob McCoy in the S.O.W. Chevy at Ascot 1962. According to the NARC Yearbook this is the car that Johnny Anderson owned, unless there was another car.
Doc, Jimmy Knight (Randerson) in his home made roadster at W.16th. St. 1958. Hope this is the car you wanted to see?
Perhaps someone can help me sort out the history of one of the most famous sprint cars in the history of sprint car racing - Parnelli Jones, Fike...
The picture I took of Gene Hartley, at Freeport L.I., was taken in September of 1957 so the time line works.
Here is one of the "Tuffy" Offys when Jimmy Knight first bought it from Carmine Tuffanelli. It looked as good as some of the restored cars of...
Two photos of Eddie Sachs in the first HOW sprint car. The photo of the number 18 was taken at Wms. Grove in 1954 and the photo of the number 2...
More Hartley: Gene Hartley at Trenton 1957 in the Bohlander Offy, Ted Hartley and Len Duncan in background look on while Chuck Weyant, leaning...
Doc, Gene's widow said the upright #4 Bohlander Offy was given to Ted Hartley for work he did for Bohlander. She said Ted sold the car to a...
Yeah Jim, Gene was driving that day. Pardon the lousy picture but this is Gene in Red Marley's car at Milwaukee in 1958.
It is hard to believe but a fellow named Chuck Grieme(sp) tried to run that car in a USAC midget race at Ascot in 1962 or 1963. There is evidence...
Here is Ted Hartley in his roadster at Milwaukee in 1958.
Jim, All I had was a picture of Ted Hartley from around 1964.
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