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1983. This was a dinner celebrating the track championships won by Tony Siscone and car owner Dick Barney (car #14) at Wall Stadium and Fort Dix. In the front row, L-R, are Tony Siscone, Ed, Dick Barney (behind Ed), what looks like sometime-Barney driver Richie Massing, and Ed Flemke Jr. Barney’s #14 car was designed and built by Ed and Ed Jr.

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Ed Jr and Paula Flemke Bouchard, with the plaque that came with Ed’s posthumous induction into the initial, 1998 class of NEAR (New England Antique Racers) Hall of Fame.

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Robin was one of the Pemberton family, key fixtures in the Albany-Saratoga Speedway culture in Malta, NY. He put on the record that Ed was ‘the greatest short-track racer I ever saw’ – and Robin saw pretty much all of the best.

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Top mechanic Chuck Grime, who used to work with Bob Judkins when Ed drove the #34 Pinto and Bob’s 2x Pintos, with an aluminum head similar to what Bob ran on his first racing car, the Ford coupe.

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Paula Flemke Bouchard stands next to author and Flemke family friend Bones Bourcier as he receives the New England Auto Racers “Ron Bouchard Memorial Award”.