Category: Other
Of general interest
Steve Danish’s car.
Of general interest
Bentley Warren in Tom Dunn’s T-5.
Of general interest
Don Diffendorf.
Other – 18
1963 – Monroe County Fairgrounds. Both the #10 and #18 were owned and run by the Turner brothers.
Of general interest
Jerry Dostie may have been the driver.
Ron Bouchard
Car owner/mechanic Bob Johnson is standing outside the car.
Other – 2x Pinto; Of general interest
Although Bob Judkins’s 2x Pinto is thought by many people to have been the first Pinto in Modified racing, it was actually preceded by about three months by Seabury Tripler’s Pinto.
Of general interest
This restaurant and Dunster’s were the two gathering places in Malta, NY, where racers and fans would congregate after a race.
Gene Bergin
Other – 90/91
Trenton – Another Donlavey car, this time with dirt specialist Al Tasnady.
Bernie Miller
L-R: Bernie and his son George.
Of general interest
Of general interest
1974 – Stafford Spring Sizzler. The X3 cars were owned by Tony Ferrante and for years driven by Jim Hendrickson.
Of general interest
Plainville Stadium.
Of general interest
Plainville Stadium.
Of general interest
1968 – Malta. This was during the period after Stafford Springs had been paved and was running on Friday nights. As a result, most of the top New England drivers did not race there in normal features.
Of general interest
Fonda.
Other – XL-1
Langhorne.
Rene Charland
This 1961 article describes how a newspaper reporter rode inside Rene’s car for a feature race at Norwood. Rene finished fourth.
Rene Charland
Denny Zimmerman confirms the story of a reporter riding inside Rene’s car for a feature race.
Rene Charland
More details from Denny Zimmerman.
Of general interest
1972 – Martinsville. The marks on the photo are for cropping – photo originally appeared in the 1972 yearbook of “Hod Rod Magazine”.
Of general interest
This car was driven by Glenn Ford, who was killed in a race at Syracuse Fairgrounds in 1958.
Of general interest
George Janoski at Fairmont Speedway.
Of general interest
Howie Westervelt. Photo by John Grady.
Of General Interest
1975-09-14 – Watkins Glen. This was a rare Modified race on a road course.
Richie Evans
I could not vouch for all these numbers, but they are believable. Often the claim that a given driver won “hundreds” of races lacks much documentation and does not stand up to scrutiny.
Of general interest
This is Bobby Bard in the car in which he won the 1970 Riverside 500. The number, 101, came from when the car’s owner, Ralph Boehm, bought Ed’s #61 in 1960, changed it from 61 to 101, and from then on used “101” for his cars.
Of general interest
Langhorne – 1967 or earlier.