Cars – Page 9 – edflemke.com

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Stafford, Bobby Vee in 2. Photo by Peter Montano.

Jerry Wheeler

First 2x coupe. Jerry introduced his brother-in-law, 2x owner Bob Judkins, to Ed in the early ’50s. This photo was taken in 1965-66. Photo by Frank Faust, from Racingthroughtime.com

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Photo from Jo Jo Farone Collection, via Racingthroughtime.com.

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Thompson. Photo by Bill Balser, from Ormsby Collection via Racingthroughtime.

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Ed drove the Garuti 14 and 28 in 1955-58.

1981 – Thompson 300. This car was normally driven by Tony Siscone. Tony had burned his calf and was unable to compete in the race, so Ed drove instead. The #14 was owned by Dick Barney, and had been built by Ed and Ed Jr’s Raceworks. In the picture, Ed Jr is on the far right.

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1981 – Thompson 300. Note the way that, at the last minute, they put Ed’s name as driver on the door.

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This photo was captioned as being from the 150-lap race at Martinsville on April 27, 1974, which Richie won and in which Ed finished 4th. However, in that race Ed actually drove the Art Barry #09 Capri. I am not aware of Ed’s ever driving Art’s Capri after its number was changed from 09 to 14.

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Richie Garuti on the left. Photo by Lloyd Burnham, from Speedwaylinereport.com.

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June, 1970.

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1969 – Langhorne.

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1981 – Thompson 300.

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This is not Ed in the car; probably Smokey Boutwell, who preceded Ed as its regular driver.

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1970. Photo by Fred Smith.

21x

1963 (-ish) – Marlboro. That looks like Denny Zimmerman’s black #4 just ahead of Ed’s yellow 21x.

Art Tappen

Wally Dallenbach

Car owned by Dick Barney.

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1969 – Malta. Photo by John Grady.

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Fort Dix. The 21 coupe was built by Norm Kies. It was originally numbered “121”, nicknamed the “Red Ram”, and driven for Norm by Denny Zimmerman. In early 1962 Ed bought the car from Norm, changed the engine from Norm’s favored Mopar to a Chevy, re-numbered it “21”, and raced it very successfully in 1962 and ’63. Thanks to Bruce Cohen for the information.