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#7 Pinto owned by John Stygar, co-owner of the $ which Ed famously campaigned from 1960-65. Driving this Pinto in 1975, Ed had his bad crash at Star, breaking his vertebrae for the second time in less than a year.

09

1971 Langhorne. I think this was the year that Ed did not qualify; Ed was leading the consi and, according to Dutch Hoag, was on his way to winning it, when his air cleaner came loose and shorted out the distributor.

Geoff Bodine

When Geoff Bodine started driving Dick Armstrong’s #1s, it marked the beginning of the end of the “Golden Age” of Modified racing. Armstrong and two or three other car owners spent so much on their operations, especially on engines and tires, that it soon became impossible for anyone with a “normal” budget to be competitive on a regular basis. It was said that, for example, the big-budget teams would spend so much on tires in order to try to win a single show that it would be more profitable for a normal team to spend a normal amount on tires and finish third. In time, Geoff demonstrated that he had a lot of talent, but his success in Modified racing  was greatly enhanced by the money his team owner spent. Photo by Tom Ormsby, from Racingthroughtime.com.

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1970 – Langhorne 200. This car was built by John Stygar (who built the $ and the #7 Pinto) and owned by Billy Corazzo. At Langhorne that year, Ed qualified 41st but DNF’d in the race, with an official finishing position of 40th. Ed raced the car at Dover and Martinsville also.