Category: Photos

1x

1963 – New London – Waterford. This actually looks like the 21x, with the “2” temporarily blanked out. Photo by Howie Hodge, from Thechromehorn.com.

61

As they would often do, Ed and Richie competed in this race both driving Richie’s cars. Here, Ed is at the left rear, holding his white racing suit. Photo by John Grady, from Racingthroughtime.com.

79

This nice-looking car was owned and run by Greg Mills and Dave Welch. More than in most cars Ed drove during this period (mainly 1969), in the 79 Ed always seemed to have to struggle to be truly competitive. Nonetheless in the 79 Ed won against strong opposition at Stafford Springs and Norwood, and was leading in the latter stages of the Thompson 500 when a broken valve ended his race. Photo from JoJo Farone, via Racingthroughtime.com

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Following his considerable success in the ¢ cars, which he had built and co-owned, midway through 1966 Ed built and owned the successor car, which he ran as the %. He raced it for only the second half of ’66 and on rare occasions in 1967, however, as starting in early ’67 he began to drive the 2x coupe on a full-time basis.

Denny Zimmerman

Fredericksburg, probably 10-01-1961. Over the windshield is written, “Judith Ann”. This is Denny’s story about her:

“In 1960 I had a very good friend named Dave Driggs. Dave would go to all the races (at least the ones up north) at Norwood every week, Thompson and sometimes Plainville. He was my pit crew and helper, a great friend. At the beginning of racing season that year he had just enjoyed the birth of his first little girl, her name was Judith Ann Driggs. He was a proud Poppa and asked if we could put her name on the car so of course we found the sign painter and put JUDITH ANN across the top of the windshield. Ran all year with her name on the car then on New Years day in Winston Salem NC (the Tobacco Bowl) I wrecked and destroyed the car. So built a new car for the 1961 season (the #4 that maybe later became the #4x not sure about that). Anyway the 1961 season got very busy and we raced all over the east coast and Dave didn’t have time for racing anymore, had to pay attention to his new family. After a while I lost track of him all together and several years later I learned that he had passed away….and I never did see his baby girl named Judith Ann Driggs………………………………………Fast forward 50 years…………I’m at the annual NEAR Hall of Fame Banquet and a lady comes up to me and sez, “Hi I’m Judith Ann Driggs.” Wow I was shocked – what a pleasant surprise, we had a lot to talk about. Anyway she had heard about this car that carried her name for a full season but didn’t have any pictures of it .So I told her I would get a picture for her, turns out I didn’t have any good ones either. I sent her what I had which was what was left of the car on the trailer only the “Ju” was visible and another of the car at the beginning of the season before her name was on it, that one though had a picture of her Dad standing next to it. She later sent a picture of what she had done with the photos – she had them framed and hung them on her wall.”