60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

Burgandy may be closer to the actual color, but red is close enough for me.

 

Dan Swain and Bobby Krull ran Vega wagons in western NY. Perhaps Dr. John has some pics.

 

Florida Feb. 1957
Fish Carb modifieds...Speedy Thompson, Fireball Roberts and Joe Weatherly

 

Some upstate NY Mod pics featuring George Kent....

George Kent #26 battling with Supermodified legend Jim Shampine in the Ed Cloce #69 Colt at Oswego




George Kent in the #26 battling with Tom Elliot #14 and Billy Cane in the #60 Chevette at Spencer Speedway



George Kent #26 chasing his former ride the Cal Smales #41 being driven by Billy "the kid" Griffin in this shot. Dave Kotary #60 and Wayne Edwards #48 also in on the action



the crew hard at work



a familiar pose





George battling Brett Bodine in the #4 at Shangri-La



George battling Jerry Cook in the #38

 

some more upstate NY mods featuring George Kent....

George Kent #26 chasing Billy Griffin #18 and Dave Kotary #60



Kent racing with Tony Vecchio in the #1





Kent racing with Marc Malcuit at Oswego




George Kent #26 being chased by Greg Sachs in the Cal Smales #41




George on the outside pole at Martinsville alongside Richie Evans #61



Kent racing with Gus Lewis #85 at Shangri-La

 

Here's a few vega wagons...

George Savary



Tom Dunn's wagon driven by Leo Cleary and Jeff Fuller



Dick DuBuois #75



Dan Swain and the Swain Bros....I believe Dr. John posted a color photo of this car a ways back on the thread

 

An unusual photo request...

I'm looking for a couple of logos. Remember the TV show "This Week on DIRT?"

How about the LIVE TV show, "Rush Hour on DIRT?"

I was a camera operator for the shows, but don't have any of the artwork Can anyone hook a brother up?

 

The T-5 is actually a PINTO Wagon.

 

some more upstate NY Mods featuring George Kent.....


tough to see who is on the outside of George Kent in this photo, maybe Billy Cane




George Kent at speed.....





Kent in victory lane with the whole gang





Kent #26 battling supermodified ace Bently Warren in the #77 at Oswego




George Kent at Stafford battling John Blewitt in his #76 Gremlin and Ron Bouchard in Lenny Boehler's #3 Chevette

 

George Kent battling the B R Dewitt teammates: Richie Evans in the #61 and Doug Hewitt in the #52





George Kent #26 battling Richie Evans #61 and Jerry Cook #38 at Oswego




A Fred Smith photo






George Kent #26 battling Billy Griifin #18 and Maynard Troyer #6




George Kent #26 leading Reggie Ruggiero in Mario Fiore's #44 at the ROC at Pocono a race that Kent won

 

I am the very proud owner of the famous 121 Punky Caron Chevy coupe .

 

uh! ..............DROOL!
lucky dog

 

Thats the car ! So much history , 109 feature wins , so many track championships and most of all , so many memories !

 

Best part is that I have the original car not a ''copy cat '' car . Body , chassis , bumpers , suspension , even the original steering wheel !

 

Hiya Ernie..


Punky's car was one of the reasons I chose #121 for my first race car.

 

Those two bottom pics must be of the aftermath of the dash for the checker flag at Martinsville between Evans and Bodine.

 

OK here are some from the 50's. Dexter Park. Woodhaven , Queens NY. Allstate Racing Stock Car Club. That's my uncle Len's 337 driven by the great Johnny Mann. That's my Dad tuning her up with the hammer.

 

Thank you all for posting on this amazing thread. It's cost me most of the past two days looking through it.

 

Members pin.

 

BMS44, you are indeed a lucky dog. many's the night I went to claremont and watched Punky in action. I have to ask, when you got the car, were there any rims on it that weren't ground off on the rim? I know every time ole Punk got along side someone, sparks would shower off the rims. that alone was worth the price of admission.

 

please share more detals and pictures

 

Ya , Punky sure made the show where ever he ran that coupe . I ran against the coupe myself for years and will cherish those memories forever . He won so many races with this car at Claremont Speedway , Monadnock Speedway and even had two top ten finishes in the Thompson 300's !

 

I found some shots I had of Punky Caron, but not too many of the coupe...

battling with Bugs Stevens in the Brady #41






at Monadnock in the pinto battling Rod Goslant #40



battling Dwight Jarvis at Claremont




Was this an ex-Armstrong #1 car? (similar front bumper)





in victory lane at Claremont




in a pack at Monadnock with Ed Kennedy #5, Red Kimball, and SJ Evonsion #28




In another tight pack again at Monadnock with Ed Kennedy #5





Following Allen Whipple in the #1





Punky Caron driving Allen Whipple's #1




Punky Caron in Allen Whipple's #1 out in front of Leo Cleary in Rollie Lindblad's #48 Ford Escort

 

I'm sure this is posted around here somewhere. Anyway........
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