Category: General interest
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Ray Platte.
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Flemington. The person in the t-shirt is Sonny Strupp.
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Please note that highly successful midget driver Bill Schindler, seen here working on his car, is missing a leg.
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1967. This is the car and rig of Quebec-based Andre Manny.
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From Danbury Racearena, which was part of an independent racing club.
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Steve Danish.
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The Ferrante x3 was for many years driven by Jim Hendrickson.
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1971 – Pocono.
Memorabilia
Different people will have different perspectives, but there is no way that Geoff Bodine deserves to be #3 on this list. After accounting for the relative shortness of his Modified career and the equipment advantage that he regularly enjoyed, Bodine should not be in the top 10.
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1962 – Eastern States Exposition 200 in Springfield MA. In the foreground is the B29 of Dink Widenhouse, who made the trip up from Virginia for this race. Photo from Racingthroughtime.com.
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Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA.
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1968 – Eastern States Exposition.
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Syracuse State Fairgrounds. L-R: Ed Ortiz, Bill Rafter, Bill Wimble, Ernie Gahan, unknown, Lou Lazzaro.
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Link Pettit.
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1964 – Norwood Arena.
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Syracuse State Fairgrounds. In this image can be seen, among other cars, two of Dave McCredy’s black-white-and-red #33s, one of which would have been driven by Bill Wimble, the Chris Drellos #111 often driven by Ken Shoemaker, the Turner Bros orange #18, usually piloted by Dutch Hoag, and Lou Lazzaro’s maroon-and-white #4.
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This appears to be Trenton. We can see the William Mason #45, on this occasion probably driven by Perk Brown or Bobby Allison, the V8 of Bill Slater, and the Circle J of Don MacTavish.
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Banjo Matthews.
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New York City’s Polo Grounds baseball park was used for board track racing.
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In the white jacket is Larry Mendelson. Larry was the promoter of racing at Islip Speedway. He invented figure-8 racing and was the primary impetus behind the All-Star Racing League.
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Old Bridge, probably about 1965.
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Constructing the board track at the Polo Grounds.