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1971-06-12 – Shangri-La 100 heat 2nd feature 4th

1971-06-18 – Malta Don MacTavish Memorial 100 1st

1971-06-18 – Malta 100 Don MacTavish Memorial race 1st

1971-06-27 – Devil’s Bowl first known appearance of Judkins 2x Pinto driven by Gene Bergin

Thanks to Justin St. Louis for the clipping.

1971-06-27 – Devil’s Bowl first known appearance of Judkins 2x Pinto driven by Gene Bergin copy

Thanks to Justin St. Louis for the clipping.

Waterford. This is Seabury Tripler in what was the very first Pinto-bodied Modified car. It did not however race in NASCAR. Bob Judkins’s 2x Pinto which came along about three months later was the first Pinto to race in NASCAR.

Pete Hamilton

1971

1971-07-03 – Shangri-La 100 consi 3rd, feature 4th

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1971-07-03 – Shangri-La Sparkler 100. Thanks to Tom Schmeh.

1971-07-04 – Fulton 200 (in 09) 1st

1971-07-04 – Fulton 200 in Art Barry 09 1st

1971-07-05 – Devils Bowl first known race for the Judkins Pinto, from Rutland Daily Herald

Gene Bergin, Bob Judkins

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1971.

Gene Bergin

This photo was reported to have been taken at the second Devil’s Bowl outing of the 2x Pinto on July 11, 1971. The car’s first race at Devil’s Bowl was on June 27, 1971, when Gene Bergin DNF’d after hitting the wall (thanks to Justin St. Louis for the information). Prior to its races at Devil’s Bowl, the car’s very first race was on June 20^th in the 100-lap Getty Open at Oxford Plains, where Gene drove it to a fourth-place finish. It next raced at a Stafford Springs open-comp show on June 23^rd. The car’s first win was the Getty Open at Oxford Plains on July 18^th. On July 24^th the car was allowed for the first time to race in NASCAR, at Stafford Springs. Photo by Lew Boyd of Coastal 181.