In 1963 at Daytona, Marvin Panch was driving a Maserati and shooting for a new speed record. He lost control of the car, which crashed and burst into flames.
Five men who saw this ran to the blaze and pulled Panch out before he was killed by the smoke and flames. Four of them are in the picture. L-R: Jerry Raborn, Panch, Steve Petrasek (standing), Ernie Gahan and Bill Wimble. The fifth, not in this picture, was Tiny Lund.
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Fred DeSarro
1964. This car was owned by Slim Ross.
Pete Corey
Rene Charland
From Catamountstadium.com.
Ken Shoemaker
Monroe County Fairgrounds, car owned by Chris Drellos.
Bill Wimble, Ernie Gahan
Bill (second from left) and Ernie (third from left, next to Bill), along with Tiny Lund (far right) are receiving the Buddy Shuman Award for pulling Marvin Panch (far left) from a burning car at Daytona.
Gene Bergin
A Garuti car also raced by Ed. Photo by Shany, from James Scott Haag Collection via Racingthroughtime.com.
Johnny Roberts
Jerry Humiston
Bugs Stevens
From the Coastal181 website.
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Denny Zimmerman
Dutch Hoag
That is Nolan Swift on the left.
Donnie Allison
Gene Bergin
Buddy Krebs, Richie Garuti
Photo by Shany Lorenzet.
Emanuel Zervakis, Runt Harris
People
1964 – Utica-Rome. Between Ed on the left and Lou Lazzaro on the right are Lucky Sutton (L) and Dave Kotary (R). Photo by John Grady, from “The Home of Heroes” by Bones Bourcier.
Ernie Gahan
Johnny Roberts
Ken Shoemaker
Photo by Russ Bergh, from catamount.com.
Pete Corey
Photo from catamount.com.
Ken Shoemaker
From catamount.com.
Johnny Roberts
1964-03-22 – List of former Riverside 500 winners
Wally Dallenbach
Photo via Joe Cryan.
