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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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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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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.