Vintage shots from days gone by!

He was only 16, but Glen Andrews had quick wits. At Oxford Plains (Maine)Speedwayin 1951, Roger Eliot replaced Stan Dodge, the regular starter who missed only this date in three years. At the end of the feature, Eliot was a little too enthusiastic about waving the checkered. He stepped out into the path of fourth-place finisher, Buster Burt. Burt tried to swerve, but he clipped Eliot before crashing mightily into the grandstand wall. Andrews, who was coming off the fourth turn, saw the carnage and purposefully flipped his car to block the track. Unfortunately, Eliot was pretty beaten up. He died in the hospital that October. FromOXFORDPLAINSSPEEDWAY– the First Three Years, 1950-1952, by Floyd “Zeke” Trask.
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