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Who is coming to York this weekend? My wife and I are heading up tomorrow afternoon and will be there for Friday and Saturday. When I am not...
This was at a time when the Army had me out of the country, however I knew most of the cars. Al Lewis was well known at Delmar and Cecil County...
Good Video! Reminds me of the day in 1963 that a saw a new Galaxie parked next to the dealership building and wondering "Who ordered that thing...
Colesy & tommyd, This afternoon I received a reply from John and this is what he had to say about the Galaxie " I purchased my 63' from a fella...
My Army friend is named John Mattox and I still have occasional contact with him. I'll ask him about the history. As for the photo, it is one...
In 1969 I was assigned to Ft. Riley, KS. The first car in the company parking lot that caught my eye was a 1963 1/2 Galaxy sporting 427 emblems....
Linda told me that the photo was a promo shot for Ford when they started using Hurst shifters as OEM in the Mustangs.
Some recent finds from the archives. This car bugged me for months trying to remember who owned it. Last week when I was having dinner with the...
Looks like a rear seat in the car to me. Don't know the trim on '57's, did the business coupes have side moldings?
Tim Bishop says that his Stock Eliminator win the last US Nationals was worth around $5000, not much compared to a class win 40 years ago! One of...
This morning I took a 70 motorcycle ride to look at a potential Jr Stocker at a salvage yard in Delaware. It was advertised as a "restorable" 1956...
Bobby Warren came to Suffolk with a Camaro sporting a bumper hitch. The car was unlettered and I thought it was a local driving his street car...
I was thinking that John was still in DE until around 1970, but I found the entry listing for his 'G/S '69 Z-28 at the 1970 US Nationals under...
Is that the year somebody won class in a Vega?
Definitely not Cecil County. York did not have fences along the track and Atco's timing tower was block and on the right hand side of the tract....
Just spotted this on eBay:...
My memory is strained a bit trying to remember the 1970 season. We took the Witchcraft car to Suffolk in April and set the record. I remember Fred...
I have a complete 1970 300HP 350 carb to pan if you need one.
I had a friend who worked in a body shop and did lace paint work. Later he was painting houses and I asked if he missed the cars. He said yes, but...
Don't remember seeing it Mark. I'll take another look.
Here are some new scans from last night. I found some negatives that were shot in 1971 at the Delmar Stock event.
Last night I found some B&W negatives that I had not previously scanned. They were taken at a UDRA Gasser Circuit event at Delmar around 1971....
Tom McCrea...are you in that picture somewhere? :) Whatever the case, I want to go back in time! [IMG] Recognize any of these guys? Pete...
This poor image was taken with my trusty Kodak Brownie at Delmar, DE in 1965 which shows my old friend John Thropp before his Jr Stock days.
Here is a shot of the Irritator I took at Darlington in 1983.
Mike told me about the day he came home from school and Dave took him out for a driving lesson. Dave had spent the day installing a shifter in...
Very good Colesy. The others may be harder to recognize because you have only seen their cars.
See how many of the people you can identify in this photo. The Gunning's are a gimmie and four of 'em post on this board.
That does look like Jay, but I was "out of the country" during 1967 & 68 and did not get back home until Nov. 1969. By then Jay had grown some and...
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