for those HAMB members interested in old stock car and some drag cars might want to check out this show. Old Bridge Stadium Speedway Weekend October 11 - 12 2008 10:00am till 4:00 pm @ Thoumas Warne Historical Museum & Library 4216 Rte 516 Matawan, NJ 732-566-2108 www.thomas-warne-museum.com Old Bridge Speedway is not Raceway Park (Englishtown) it was another track altogether. Old Bridge ran stock cars and midgets and had drag racing on the front stretch. check out the web site or give them a call for more info.
Greetings from Long Branch,NJ,Americas first seashore resort and 7 time U.S summer capital....looks like a good weekend on the way weatherwise....we're heading up the the annual car show at the RT.18 fleamarket up the road in East Brunswick then down to the new Old Bridge Speedway Museum located across from Old Bridge High School on 516 ....maybe see you there.... Lee Greenwood -WRAT-FM - Wall Township Speedway track announcer-Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club (Hall of Fame Member)....Turkey Derby Thanksgiiving weekend Wall Speedway!
should be some great recreations of cars that ran there on a regular basis - the XL1 of Al Gehrum (Don House) that was driven by Joe Kelly and Wally Dallenbach (Sr), the 16J (just finished) of Elton Hildreth, the 68 of Woody Johnson driven by Pete Frazee, the 106 of Frank Drogan, the 41 of Greg Roman, plus others, plus Midgets, a good opportunity to become a member of the Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club, also check out the diorama of Old Bridge by Dan Rhein, a special effort was made to get some surviving drag cars that participated there, where you started off turn 4 and ran down into turn 1, to come out - should be a great weekend -
Anyone remember a guy named Jerry White who ran a 37 coupe # 1A7,A 35 0R 36 5 WINDOW#1 a 37 humpback #?18 with a shell logo on the # panel. He was my grandfather.
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