History Historic Stock Car Photos

I just recieved news that Southern all star// All Pro? NASCAR and other orig that Darrell Brown of the Birmingham Alabama area was killed today in a work related accident.. He was 67 years old and had driven from 63 thru the 2000s with many feature wins and several championships. I have known him since 1958.. Bobby....

 

50dodge4x4, well put. Ya got what ya got, that's the way it is, live with it, whatever. No drama, just facts. Let's be thankful we have this thread still going.

 

I am going blind, Is there a picture of Don Riley V W that won the V W Championship at the Fairgrounda Motor Speedway in Here. I thought I see it. RIP Don.

 

My Dad's cousin, Les Sherman built that # 82 Chevy driven by Tommy Wible shown on page 239. Actually, the picture was taken at Winchester Speedway, at Winchester, Indiana. It is the highest banked 1/2 mi asphalt track in Indiana. the banking in the turns are close to the banking at Bristol, only the turns are wide and sweeping, with the front and backstretch shorter.

 

Tommy Wible (now deceased) was from Ft. Wayne Indiana, a regular at Baerfield Speedway at Ft Wayne. My Dad's cousin, Les Sherman built and owned that # 82 Chevy. You can go to www.baerfieldspeedway.org click on the Stock Car Hall of Fame link, to view more old time racing photos.

 

As far as I know, Conan "Moose" Meyers is still living in Fort Wayne Indiana. What he is doing now, I don't know. I do see him from time to tiime at Baerfield Speedway, enjoying the races. Moose was the season track champion there several times back in the day.

 

Say "Hello" to the Moose for me, Stock Car Fan. I was in the flagstand at Salem the day he clinched the 1977 ARCA championship. I was working mostly with ASA at the time, but was there to watch, and Frank Canale asked me to flag the feature. Moose and Jim Stovall were great friends of mine.

 

Moose Myers

 

West Lebanon Raceway.
Half - mile dirt track operated in early 50s

Great photo of West Lebanon from 1950
( Thanks to Ed Gould }




Pit area - 1950
( Thanks to Ed Gould }




Early lineup shows Claremonts Maurice Condon in the #12 up front with ray Sanborn of Salisbury bringing up the rear
{ Photo courtesy of Robert Morrill }




Same lineup grows by one
{ Photo courtesy of Robert Morrill }




I believe this is Bill Byers in need of a tow
{ Photo courtesy of Ed Gould }




Haulin' at it's best - 60 years ago
{ Photo courtesy of Ed Gould }




Ray Sanborn #640, 1951 track champ at Franklin Motordrome
{ Photo courtesy of Robert Morrill }




{ Photo courtesy of Ed Gould }




A common sight in the early years on NH short tracks
{ Photo courtesy of Robert Morrill }




This one took it pretty hard
{ Photo courtesy of Ed Gould }

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Rollie Beale

 

my grand pa

 

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Hberg,
I just spent a good part of the morning looking at the photos from Heidelberg.............WOW, lots of work and great history. THANKS A TON for sharing these.

I appreciate the posts and look forward to more from your collection.

 

I have a thread called old race car pictures. With some cool pictures

 

Old race pictures

 

i'm friends with a guy who used to work on this car and i'll ask him this weekend. he rode to the martinsville spring doubleheader in 1976 with dale and teresa in an old chevy pickup towing the car. the car was leading with four laps to go when he ran out of gas.

 

Hey Stock Car Fan, the shot of the #82 Wible car really was taken at Dayton. Stupidly, I never took a camera with me to Winchester ! Do you think that the Baer Field site would want a copy of the # 82 for their web site ? I'm pretty sure a have a shot of it as a single - no other car in the picture. Let me know....

 

Stock Car Fan, I'm sure you're right about Winchester's banks being higher than Salem, but I'm almost certain the turns are tighter. I can't find the measurements we took in my ASA days.

 

I was told that Funk created Dayton, Salem and Winchester with all the same banking degrees. Basically all the same.

 

He did build them all, and I was told the same thing about the banking degrees. Winchester has tighter turns than Salem, and Dayton's have a slightly longer radius, I believe.

 

I like the old saying when the green flag drops the bullshit stops. But if you ever drove its when it begins

 

Hello all, I'm new to this site, and was hoping to find out more stuff [stories and pictures] about my uncle Ken Pankratz. He was from Mosinee Wi, and was #29. Thanks in advance, Joe Hill! 715-486-6336

 

Results of a quick web search


Note Dave Marcis in the background

 

Thanks Blinkerbo !!!

 

Great pictures Guys !!!!!

 

not quite butch 27- Indy big john- do you have hard copies of this photo??

 

Rich Somers pasted away Saturday. WIR track champ from the 70's. Best known car the thunder pony.

 

To which photo are you referring?

 

Rich Sommers

 

Demo - I love that garage photo - do you know who the original photographer was, or who owns the rights to it? I'd love to use that as a reference for a painting if possible.
Dan