60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

Dick Barlow

Dick Traynor

Dick Taylor

Dick Taylor

Dick Holahan

 

Dick Dunn not be mistaken for Donald Duck Dunn from Booker T and M.G.s and also The Blues Brothers movie :O)

Dick Dixon, check out the push truck in the back!

Dick Clark

Dick Barlow

Dick Barlow

 

Great picture of Dick Clark Bullfather! That car is located about 10 miles from me. It has gone full circle and ended up back in the hands of Ray Hedger, who built and owned the car for Dick. It has been fully restored to the same as in the photo with a new Rabbit body on it as seen in this photo I took about 2 months ago...

 

Dick Elliott

Dick Barlow

Dick Beauregard

Dick Beauregard

Dick Bekenbach

 

Dick Beckenbach

Dick Berggren check out the hat back in the day!

Dick Dixon

Dick Dyke

Dick Noel

 

Dick McCullough

Dick Kluth and Gary Ball

Dick Jackson

Dick Jackson, awesome car hauler

Dick Fowler

 

Dick Fowler


Dick Elliott

Dick Elliott

Dick Qualio

Dick Stebbins

 

weds. photos.

Baldy Wilson 4, 7 Lucky Lewis awesome photo

Cotton Owens

Al Hewitt at Dorney Park

Art Barry

Baldy Wilson

 

Baldy Wilson

Banjo Matthews and Fireball Robert another awesome photo!

Banjo Matthews

Bill Greco

Bobby Meyers

 

Bobby Johns

Bobby Johns

Billie Harvey fleet

Bill Harman

Bill Harman

 

Bill Harman

Bill Harman

Bill Harman

Bobby Turner

Bob Flock at the beach

 

Here are some shots I got from the Alabama Racing Pioneers Association site. These were drivers who raced in alabama, Georgia and Tennessee in the fifties and sixties. You may recognize some names. These guys had some beautiful and fast cars back in the day.

This is Bobby Allison

Bobby Allison's and Red Farmers Cars

Donnie Allison. This car had a front mounted blower.

Harold Fryar of the racing brothers Harold and Freddie Fryar.

This is Nero Steptoe from Columbus Georgia. He won the Main Event in Birmingham once on three wheels. The wheel came off the left front about midway thru the race, he was in the lead and he never let off. He said he was afraid to let off because the wheel would dig in and wreck him.

 

I would love to see the setup of that front mounted blower motor... I assume this was before electric fans... I wonder how it cooled?

 

Good question. I really don't know how it cooled. My uncle had a 1953 studebaker about the same time with a front mounted blower on a packard engine and I do not remember how it was cooled. I have no one I can ask now.

 

Great additions Olustee Bus.

 

Aweosme photos Olustee Bus if you got more bring them on! Love them! Bobby Allison did a lot of traveling back in the day. For a few years he raced out of Florida made his way up every weekend raced Islip and one or two other tracks.

Bob and Ruby Flock

Bruno Hoffman at Dorney Park, another racetrack that became a roller coaster

Charlie Cregar

Charlie Cregar

Cherokee Vogt and Dober Sosebee

 

Co Co Marlin

Cider Rambi

Dick Fleck

Dick Joslin

Dick Watson

 

Dick Watson

George Nadeau

George Nadeau

Dick Traynor

Dick Tobias

 

Dick Stebbins

Dick Joslin coupe at Daytona

Dick Joslin

Dick Watson

Dick Watson

 

Back when these cars raced. Not many caution flags were waved. You races around a wreck or stalled car. The red flag omly came out if the track was completly blocked. so plenty pf air flow around the radiators. Most of the flathead guys did not run a fan as it took about 5 horsepower to pull it. On the 88 of D Allison he said to cool keep the car up to speed. It was a shame but this car only raced a few times. It was totaled in a wreck in huntsville. DA said it had a hard time getting the front tire up to operating temp and was a hand full to drive.On The Hugh Babb Studebaker no room for a fan. After the Gordon Bishop wreck in the 53 starliner Hugh installed the powerplant in a 33 ford coupe. {{Right before he went to work for the chevy race team in Atlanta}} Both of these creations were worked on by Bo Fields. He did a lot of the fab work at JP Rottens Birmingham racing garage. To be sure next time I see him I will ask... Bobby.

 

k9racer

JP Rotton is my uncle. I may have met you at a pioneers awards dinner. I talked to someone who was restoring an old track car.

I did know that the engine in the studebaker ended up for a short time in a 34 coupe.

I never knew what happened to the studebaker. Was it demolished. I sure it has been to the crusher by now.

Some more of the pioneers photos should be posted here. I will do some more later.
Thanks for the response.

 

cant wait but for now here some more from me!

Dick Watson

Dick Watson

Dick Watson

Dick Watson

Dick Watson

 

Dick Watson

Dick Watson and Dick Beauregard

Dick Wolstenhulme

Diz Dean

Here one for ya Rich, Don Howe

 

Don Dionne

Don Collins

Don Campi

Don Bonafant

Don Wylie

 

Don McTavish

Doc Cercena

Diz Dean

Don Kreitz

Don LaJoie

 

langhorne and daytona beach

 

elffhell thoses daytona beach photos are sick! Hope you got some more!

 

Man, I can smell the salt air with the photo of Dick Joslin at Daytona!

 

Jamie Tomaino

Don Barker and Dick Barlow

John Blewett Jr. and Maynard Troyer

John Blewett Jr and Kremer

Geoff Bodine

 

Fred Harbach at Trenton with Charlie Jarzombek

Don LaJoie

Don LaJoie

Don Kibbe