Photo by George McCormick.
Category: Photos
Of general interest
Plainville. Dick Dixon in the 8-Ball. That does not look like Ed driving the Norm Kies-owned 21. Photo by Thort Haag, from Racingthroughtime.com.
79
1969 – Thompson 500, which Ed in the 79 was leading comfortably until his engine broke a valve on about the 400th lap.
Sparky Belmont
This was the team car to the #439 that Ed drove.
Len Boehler
Memorabilia
Buddy Krebs
Don MacTavish
Of general interest
Of general interest
Don MacTavish
Of general interest
Other – 14
Next to the Garuti #14 is Moe Gherzi, who was the regular driver of the Garuti Brothers’ cars until Ed became his teammate, and then replaced him.
Memorabilia
United Stock Car Racing Club circuit. For a number of years, Riverside and Plainville each held races twice weekly.
Of general interest
The driver here is Charlie Centinaro.
Of general interest
Walt Czepiel is in the driver’s seat.
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432
Other – 3
1969 – Langhorne. Car owner Len Boehler is on the left, top mechanic George Colwell on the right.
Fats Caruso
Of general interest
This is noted racing photographer John Grady next to Richard Petty’s #43 at Malta.
Of general interest
Airborne Park Speedway.
Anecdote
2016-05-12 – NERF’ers’ Corner Reloaded – “Everyone Has A Richie Story: A Few From The Press Brat”, by Jared Echo.
Ray Hendrick
Anecdote
Lynn Evans is Richie Evans’s widow.
Anecdotes
Some remembrances of Ed, on the anniversary of his death.
Of general interest
This Karmann Ghia was the pace car for the 1961 Yankee 500 Grand National race at Norwood.
Other – 41
This was the #41 after Cal Smales bought it.
Of general interest
Utica-Rome Speedway would paint the car in the livery of the previous year’s track champion, in this case Lou Lazzaro.
