Standing next to the car is Ed’s father Jake Flemke. Photo from Rachel Shiflet.
Category: Cars
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This is the original print, from the Flemke family collection.
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1959 – Plainville. This is the oldest known color photo of Ed in a racing car.
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61, People
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At Riverside on August 8, 1959, Ed’s own car (#61) crashed in the semi-final after its throttle stuck. For the feature, Ed borrowed Fred Beaulieu’s car, shown above.
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Eastern States Fairgrounds, with owner-driver Fred Beaulieu.
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As the starter lines them up before the feature, Ed’s car can be seen on the far left.
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Riverside Park. The 61 is the leading car here.
14 Coach – 1969
1969-09-01. The #14 was owned by Dick Armstrong. Here Ed is in it at the first Modified race held at Dover Downs. Photo by Pete Stoll.
2x coupe
Plainville. This was the first Bob Judkins 2x coupe, a Ford that was raced in early-mid ’60s by Ed, Gene Bergin, Fats Caruso, Billy Harman, Tony Mordino, and Jerry Wheeler (who had introduced Bob to Ed in the early ’50s). Photo by Faust, from the R.A. Silvia archives, via Racingthroughtime.com
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1963. Photo by John Grady.
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In 1970, Richie Evans was banned from NASCAR events because he had been running in some non-NASCAR events. Ed was going to drive Richie’s car in the New Yorker 400 at Utica-Rome but, because Richie was in the crew, officials would not allow the team to enter the pits. The team’s response was to set up operations in the public parking lot, from which they ran the car during practice, qualifying, and the race itself. Whenever he drove the car onto the track, Ed was required to show his own, valid NASCAR driver’s card. Despite this handicap, Ed won the race. Photo by John Grady, from Racingthroughtime.com.
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Photo by John Grady. The ‘brindle brown’ car was the third of three ¢ cars built and raced by Ed.
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1975 – First #10 Pinto, owned by Bill Thornton
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1963 (approx) – Car owner Richie Garuti is on the right. Photo from Jojo Farone via Racingthroughtime.com
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1963 (approx) – Utica-Rome, Ed is in white shirt, car owner Richie Garuti in front of him looking into engine bay.
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1963 photo (approx).
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1963 – Thompson. Denny Zimmerman is in the black 4 just behind Ed in the red 14. Photo by Howie Hodge, from Thechromehorn.com.
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1970. Photo from the Tom Ormsby Collection, via Racingthroughtime.com.
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Photo by John Grady.
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1970.
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x3
Owned by Tony Ferrante Sr and normally driven by Jim Hendrickson, the x3 was built by Ed and Ed Jr. Ed Sr raced it at Stafford Springs and Pocono.
2x Pinto
1972-03-19 – Martinsville Dogwood 500 lap 120 of 250. The leader indicated on the scoreboard was car #42. That was a temporary ‘Martinsville number’ given to the original 2x Pinto which Ed was driving. In this race he led for 60 laps, and was still leading until his engine blew a few laps after this photo was taken.
2x Pinto
1972-03-19 – Martinsville Dogwood 500, in order: Ed, Ron Bouchard (35), Bob Santos (09), Satch Worley (45), Richie Evans (61), Gene Bergin (1), Bugsy Stevens (15).
2x Pinto
1972 – Martinsville. Max Berrier (12), Paul Radford (26), Ed in 2(x). An internet poster asserted that this photo was from the March 1972 Dogwood 500. However, the car in this image is the second 2x Pinto, which did not exist until a few months after the 1972 Dogwood race had taken place. This image in fact appears to be from the October 1973 Cardinal 500 at Martinsville.