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Christine and Ed Flemke are being given trophies by Riverside Park and United Racing Club promoter Harvey Tattersall Jr.

Bugs Stevens

1959 – Bugs is in the top row, far left, in the dark shirt.

1959-12-31 – Riverside feature winners for the year

1959-12-31 – Riverside drivers for the season

1959-12-31 – Riverside season wins

1959-12-31 – Riverside drivers during the season

Riverside Park – 1959 final points Ed 3rd

From a Riverside Park 1960 program.

Plainville. This was the first Bob Judkins 2x coupe, a Ford that was raced in early-mid ’60s by Ed, Gene Bergin, Fats Caruso, Billy Harman, Tony Mordino, and Jerry Wheeler (who had introduced Bob to Ed in the early ’50s). Photo by Faust, from the R.A. Silvia archives, via Racingthroughtime.com

Gene Bergin

Pine Bowl. Photo by Bob McDowell, from Roger Liller Collection via Racingthroughtime.com.

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1963. Photo by John Grady.

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In 1970, Richie Evans was banned from NASCAR events because he had been running in some non-NASCAR events. Ed was going to drive Richie’s car in the New Yorker 400 at Utica-Rome but, because Richie was in the crew, officials would not allow the team to enter the pits. The team’s response was to set up operations in the public parking lot, from which they ran the car during practice, qualifying, and the race itself. Whenever he drove the car onto the track, Ed was required to show his own, valid NASCAR driver’s card. Despite this handicap, Ed won the race. Photo by John Grady, from Racingthroughtime.com.