Category: Anecdotes

Ed and Richie Evans helped Booker T. Jones to get a good bonus for appearing at an Islip race.

From Paved Track Dirt Track by Lew Boyd, published by Coastal 181.

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Ed raced at Westhampton for only a brief period, during 1961, but he clearly made an impression.

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This relates to an illegal reverse-rotation engine that was being run in the V8 driven by Bill Slater. Ed suspected what was going on but Slater’s refusal to start the car prevented Ed from confirming it.

More of Denny Zimmerman’s thoughts on how Ed helped him to develop as a driver.

Drivers of #9 “Excavator Special”, as per Bob Simons (of the Simons family that owned and ran the Excavator Specials for decades).

Lynn Evans is Richie Evans’s widow.