My Eastbay car…
Ron I also like Marty’s #237 cars. They always looked like low slung street cars with cut out fenderwells. Very cool looking.
Bobby Allison’s #312’s were pretty race cars - the dark red and gold made a good color combination.
I remember a coupla years up at New Smyrna’s World Series where Donnie Allison was scored as the #288 in his blue and gold Nova.
Keep ‘em comin’! 
and their famous “4Q” cars!
i’ve got a whole list of those numbers going out to four digits. five?
Jack Hackney with the “Black Cat Special” car #13 at NSS. The car was painted black and orange.
Saw these on a page of old northeast mod photos: Xcitez, A OK, and a sweet looking mustang mod #280.
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Roman Numeral III on his Late Models.
- R.I.P. BKW -
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Yep, Jim…that was one of my FAVORITE race cars, that gold #III. Bryan brought that number to our car when he started driving for us in about '84 in order to keep his points at St. Pete; at Inverness, we ran it as a #XII (Roman numeral 12). In the first pic, that’s a big duct-taped #III over the painted #12 that was on the car; that’s my dad on the far right (black shirt, red/white hat) and car owner Bob Kirk third from right in the white shirt and jeans.
We also had the #121 with John Gertsner drving at Lakeland’s old 1/4-mile, and then when my brother started driving at Orlando in 2004, we picked up the #112, because Drawdy was already registered as the 12. We also had Junior Purcel in the car as #112 back in 1990 at the first Florida Pro race (at least, I THINK it was the first Florida Pro event, down at Bradenton).
Mike McCrary had the m5. Davey Crockett drove the 500 car. Lee Humphries drove 111 in the hobby class all at Palm Beach. The Humphries car lost a roof in a feature race.
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The Nightstalker
George “Crash” Tidd’s X9 Top Cat
If anyone has any information or photos of the X9 Top Cat car please send it to me. George “Crash” Tidd is my father and he drove the X9 when I was a kid. He and Hubert Sutton had a garage off of 33rd street in Orlando. I rode in that car at Orlando raceway as a kid and have been serching for any information on the car I could find. As for my dad I have probably 10 or 12 scrap books of his if anyone would like information about what are in them. My dad passed away 11/23/86.
I am new to this site so I am going to put my email down here also.
Thanks,
John Tidd
cmartin74@cfl.rr.com
Hey John… Welcome to the site… And thanks for post… I am sure that if anyone has any they will help you out…
Have a great day and welcome…
Welcome to the site, John! There’s a LOT of us “Ol’ Skool” guys here
If you can get in touch with Dave Westerman (ancrdave), he can probably help you out. I believe he lives in the Orlando area. Do you have a way of scanning your scrapbooks?
Marty Little would be very interested in any photos especially if there 33/34 ford coupe sponored by United Parts. Its the same car as the one sponsored by Heidelberg Inn. I remember your dad racing at the old Orlando raceway and one night he and Rosebud Flowers had a roll over contest to see who could get the most roll out their car. He was a popular driver in the late 50s.
I drove the “Flying O” in the panhandle in the mid 60’s. billy
There is a car at citrus thats painted up
like a cow and runs the MOO for a #
in the pure stock class…
The X9 coupe was a really neat race car that “Crash” Tidd drove around '63-'64… He pretty much quit racing after that time period… Wish I could find more old Orlando/Eau Gallie pix from the late '50s and early '60s…
I remember…
…the 500.
Sugarbear John Berg used it at East Bay in the Late Models and it also showed up on that little Dodge Colt Super Six that a few people drove (I think it was Charlie(?) Ragan at East Bay but I think I remember Bobby Alexander driving it at the Gate a few times)
Not sure but it (the 500) may have been a Harry Crouse number…not sure…but speaking of the Crouse’s and Bobby Alexander…how about his number 15…he’s campaigned that number for a long time…
Others I remember…Larry Moore’s Paul’s Pipeline (P1) cars…Duvall’s Flintstone Flyer (F1)…Jerry Inmon’s D7…Lenny Boehler’s blue number 3
…still thinkin’…
Yeah, OJ, I remember the #500 from a couple different places: Davy Crockett drove one down in south Florida (Palm Beach and Hialeah), and then the one from the west coast that you mentioned. I seen it at the 'Gate on the Super Six car, and might have have seen it the one and only time I went to the 'Bay in '83. When it was on the Super Six, I can remember both Donnie Tanner and Alexander driving it.
Going back up north, wasn’t there an x89 and an x90 on a couple of Modifieds? Freddie Harbach drove one and Mike Grbac drove the other, I believe.
I always thought Don Gregory’s Camaros looked pretty cool with the number on the rear quarter panel (the old Jeg’s purple and white cars).
Butch Lindley drove a Dillon/Prototype house car #V6, with a V6 in it, when ASA was trying to get everyone to go to the small motors.