1975-04-14. This is the #1 Pinto that Ed drove in early 1975 at both the Martinsville Dogwood 500 (which Ed led before mechanical problems set in) and the Stafford Spring Sizzler (in which Ed finished 2nd). Car owner John Lukosavage is in the foreground of the photo, which is from the Manchester Journal-Inquirer.
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1975-05-03 – Ed won a 100-lap race at Plainville and immediately after rushed down to Stafford, where the same day he finished 8th in a car that Bugsy Stevens qualified for him.
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1975-05-25 – Thompson.
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1975-05-25 – Thompson. Ed won this race driving John Stygar’s #7 Pinto. Photo by Heath, from New England Speedway Scene.
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Stafford Springs. Second-from-right is car owner Bill Thornton; far-right is chief mechanic John Stygar, with whom Ed first worked when driving the $ fifteen years earlier.
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The man on the left in the t-shirt is Clyde McLeod.
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Fred DeSarro is on the left.
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Always looking, always thinking….
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Although this paper was published in 1977, the photo is probably from 1975 at the latest.
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1976 – Freeport. Ed is with Gil Hearne. Photo by Carol Hearne.
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Photo by Jet Zarrella.
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Bruce Cohen is on the far left speaking with Ray Spognari. The tall man beside the truck is John Aszklar. Photo by Jet Zarrella.
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Thompson. Bill Slater is driving the pace car, Bugs Stevens is driving the 15. Ed, who at the time was recovering from a serious back injury, had been named Grand Marshal of the Thompson 300. Photo by Mike Adaskaveg, from “A History of Auto Racing in New England”, by Dr Dick Berggren and the North East Motor Sports Museum, published by Coastal 181.
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1975 – Thompson. Paula Flemke drove Ed Jr’s cars only 4 times, all in practices, but demonstrated great talent behind the wheel. One suspects that she would have been a very successful racing driver.
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1975-09-29 – Thompson 300, where Ed was the race’s Grand Marshall as he recovered from his second serious back injury in a year.
