Cars – Page 23 – edflemke.com

2, Gil Hearne

This is the same #2 that Ed built for Ed Ackerman in the winter of 1963-64.

During the winter of 1963-4, Ed built two cars for Ed Ackerman of New York. Ackerman numbered them #1 and #2. The Ackerman #2 was often driven by Sal Mauro, but Ed drove it to victory in the Southside 400 on September 4th, 1964.

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The #1 was built by Ed for Ed Ackerman. It was first driven by Gene Gamache, shown here. After Gene was killed, the car was renumbered #3 and usually raced by Rene Charland. Ed drove the car as #3. I don’t know whether he ever drove it as #1.

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1964 – Utica-Rome.

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Utica-Rome, probably 1964. Ed’s second wife (-to-be) Carolyn is with Ed and their children Paula and Ed Jr. Photo by Dick Myers, via Paul Sykes.

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Utica-Rome, probably 1964. Photo by Dick Myers, via Paul Sykes.

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1966 – Waterford.

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Ed once drove Bill and George Greco’s #43 in a long-distance race at Seekonk, but retired with about 25 to go because he wasn’t happy with the car’s steering. Regular driver Bill Greco is shown here. (Information from The Number 43 by Sarah Greco).

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I believe the Seekonk race was on October 20, 1964.

2x coupe

If that fellow in the bright blue shirt would only lean to the left, we could see even more of the 2x coupe.

Bill Slater

Eddie Crouse

Eddie was twice NASCAR National Modified Champion.

Eddie Crouse

Leo Cleary

The case of Bardahl was the winner’s bonus.

2x coupe

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Utica-Rome. Eddie is being t-boned by Rene Charland.

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Although this image is shown above, I have included this version to show the date of the print: June, 1965.

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The first car that Ed helped Pete Hamilton sort out was the ‘Flying 9’ owned and run by Ray Stonkus.

Smokey Boutwell

This is the John Stygar/Donald Ponticelli-owned $ which Ed made famous in the early 1960s. During the period of this photo, 1965, Ed was primarily driving his own car, the ¢.