60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

Not a knome on the roof, It's Casper the friendly Ghost. All of us kids had red shirts with Casper on them and cow bells to ring when he won. The car won lots of races at Sunshine Speedway. I'll try to scan a picture from my wall of the next Trolly, You only thought this sedan was weird. Ted

 

This was the next Trolly. 292 6 cyl chevy with 3 webers. Note the model a roof. Ted

 

Does anyone have any pictures of a bright yellow number69 numbers were blue and had a rubber duck mounted on the roof ? This car ran with Freddy Desaro , Ron Bouchard, Bugsy Stevens, Jeff Bodine, Fuzzy Bear. It ran at Waterford Speedbowl, Thompson and once or twice at Pocanoe. This car was driven by Nels Wholstrom. He ran in the 1970s. I can remember the races from about 73 and up. If i remember right Ned Jarrett was the announcer or at least associated with Thompson Speedway at the time this car was ran. Please help !

 

Pocanoe??????? Wait your right, I remember all the rain outs and rain delays as a kid at Pocono! lol We needed a canoe to get out of that place a few times!

 

Who's Jeff Bodine????? Or, do you mean Jethro Bodine?

 

trolley#2 is pretty cool!

 

Yes, it is. But, it needs a bell.

 

Ok looked threw all 151 pages still did not see any pics of the car im looking for.Seen alot of pics that brought back some good memories. Im sure some ole timers remember this car.He won a few times at Warterford and thompson and was well known among the drivers.Only car i know of that had a rubber duck on the roof.

 

Cam Gagliardi, 1971, at Lancaster (NY) Speedway. Gordon Reinig photo.

 

Roger Treichler at Lancaster (NY) Speedway. Photos by Gordon Reinig.
TOP: 1970. BOTTOM: 1971

Cars in the background: Pete Snyder (56), Bobby Hudson (10) and Dave Hafner (16x).

 

Now that's cool!

 

A buddy of mine here in Tampa (and fellow HAMBer) told me it was called the Toonerville Trolley. It was owned by the guy that started the Zepherhills Swap Meet, Bud Josey, and that it was considered nearly unbeatable in it's day. Rumor is that he cut it up and buried it when it was through racing. I think that it mainly ran at Sunshine Speedway in St. Petersburg. Gary

 

You sure it wasn't buried in Giant Stadium along with Jimmy Hoffa in the end zone??? lol

 

Larry Brazil gets under the guard rail

Larry Brazil

Larry Flynn at Jacksonville Speedway

Larry Flynn

 

Larry Catlin

Larry Flynn

Larry Groover

Larry Groover

Larry Groover

 

Larry Huff

Larry Huff

Larry Nye



Larry Witter

 

LANCASTER (NY) SPEEDWAY PHOTOS BY GORDON REINIG

Frankie Smith, 1968


Don Diffendorf, 1969

 

SSSsssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Johnny Thompson

 

Interesting paint job... Since cars were not using "wraps" yet, how was the side of the car painted? Did the signpainter patiently map out the checkerboard, then fill it in by hand with his lettering enamel? And look at the close-up of the red numerals -- the blue parts of the checkerboard are bleeding through the red paint...

 

LANCASTER (NY) SPEEDWAY -- PHOTOS BY GORDON REINIG

1970 All Star League race: Rene Charland (3) leads Roger Treichler (outside) and Ray Hendrick (11).


Jim Smoker (Smolinski) fills his coupe's gas tank in 1968


Chuck Boos, 1967 (I am the luckiest kid in the world -- Chuck gave me the cardboard template his signpainter used, for years, for those No. 9 numerals.)


Bobby Hudson, 1968

 

Dr. John,

Your photos are outstanding!

 

Steved00
There is a photo of Nels Wohlstrom in the 69 in the Dave Dykes "Racing Through Time" website. Look at the archives, I think for April 15. Nels bought the car in 1974. It was originally built by Mike Beebe in 1972 and was probably the most cut up Pinto around. Nels had a Tasmanian Devil painted on the passenger side. I was on the crew in 1975 running Waterford and Thompson.
We started building a new 2x3 chassis Monza-bodied car in '76 but I lost interest and left the crew in February. Largely due to meeting my future wife (32 years this August) but also due to working on the car seven days a week during the season. For hundreds of hour of labor, I didn't get even a $4 pit pass.
I can give you quite a bit of the construction details of either car if you are interested.
Regards,
Chris

 

Don Diffendorf



Don Diffendorf

 

Hey guys had to system restore my laptop and lost everything. It's ok, give me a few days and I'll be back on the horse!!!! some how:O)

 

...and the horse you rode in on.

 

Well, I have just about every photo posted here plus a number that aren't. I could you send you a zip file but that might take a week to open and down load.

 

Over 3000 posts !!!!

Unbelievable.....great job to all who have contributed to this thread!

 

This car, driven by Bill Strosahl in 1969 and Graeme Bolia in 1970-1972, still exists and has been rescued.

 

PHOTOS FROM LANCASTER (NY) SPEEDWAY BY GORDON REINIG


Bernie Fittos, approx. 1970.


Mike Miller, 1969.