Canadian, Ivan Little, who won Track Championships at both Ransonmville and Meritville Speedways.
Looks like we’re missing the #64.
Remember kids, if your name is Dick Trickle, it goes without saying that your car better say Big Johnson.
Here’s a real nice restoration project that runs in the Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club. Their web-site has a bunch of cool Vintage cars on there, both dirt and asphalt: http://www.gsvscc.org
Tony Izzo, from the Chicago area has been racing a long time. Sons Tony Jr. and Joe followed him into Late Model racing. I loved the fancy tow-rig in this picture. He now has a double stacker and a toter-home
Donnie Beechler in a Silver Crown series ride, owned by Gary Zarounian. The 67 has had plenty of famous drivers in it, including Kasey Kahne, Ron “Sleepy” Tripp, and Mike Bliss.
Donnie made it from here to the IRL and the Indy 500. The IRL was built around guys like Beechler, Hamilton, Steele, Stewart, Hewitt, etc… what the HELL happened (again)?
Do you think Pat Patrick, from Kentucky, has seen a few rulebook changes over the years? All 3 shots are of him in various decades of his driving career.
Note the center post wing on the 2nd shot!
Pete Hamilton used to race all over the East coast, with a group of his buddies, like Ed Flemke and Denny Zimmerman (who would later be named Rookie of the Year in the Indy 500), that called themselves the “Eastern Bandits”.
Pete went from there to become a teammate of Richard Petty’s. He won the Daytona 500 and the Talladega 500 in the Superbird pictured here.
From there, just to prove he hadn’t forgotten his short track roots, he went on to win the Snowball Derby in 1974, and ran the New Smyrna Speedweeks a few times in the mid-'70’s.
Who the hell is Earnhardt? This is the REAL Junior!!!
Junior Hanley, from Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
The 2nd shot looks like a car that wound up going to Dick Trickle as one of the Super America/Pabst Blue Ribbon cars
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This guy had one of the coolest nicknames ever for a race driver… “Captain Sizzle”, Mark Malcuit. Ironically, Mark was an asphalt specialist (even though this is a dirt car), while his brother Brad was the dirt racer in the family. Together, they built some of the best short track motors in the 1980’s.
The late Tony Jankowiak, pictured with his young son Andy. Unfortunately, Tony was killed during that stretch of the mid-'80’s when we also lost Richie Evans, Charlie Jarzombek, Corky Cookman, Don Pratt, Tommy Druar and about 5 others… all in Nascar type Modifieds. Soon after, the rules were changed to make the cars much more “crushable” so that the impact disipated throughout the car without the drivers body taking so much impact.
Little Andy is now a racer himself at Lancaster Speedway in NY.
J R Heffner in a cool mirror-image shot. The caption to this picture says he was waiting out a 5 hour rain delay… and everyone bitched about Volusia running late!
J R has also run the ARCA 200 at Daytona the last few years.
Another racer with a cool nickname… “Buckwheat” Jimmy Sills. Never did figure out where the name came from, but this guy could win in any car, anywhere. I once saw him grab a win at Volusia during Speedweeks, in the Marshall Cambell owned/wrenched #1N, Laverne Nance sprinter. Nance himself employed many of the greats at one time or another, including Steve Kinser, Sammy Swindell, Doug Wolfgang, and even Al Unser Jr!
This car here is a Gary Stanton owned car that was the “factory” team for Mopar when they got back into short track racing.
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Henry Ford 1st Race Car, 1902
now thats awesome thanks everyone who has posted pics love this thread look at this everymorning drinking my coffee
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Corey Lane DAARA car.
