LegendsRacer - Legends & Bandolero Racing Forum
LEGENDS => General => Topic started by: justfreaky on November 16, 2010, 01:04:44 pm
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Jim (VMSMotorsports) brought up this idea awhile back to drum up more threads and discussions on the LegendsRacer forum. So here is one I saw on another forum that has generated many posts and hundreds of pictures and got people to start scanning old pics to share. The criteria is simple: Post a picture, or pictures, you have of old race cars (preferred to be 1985 and older) whether it be local, USAC, Artgo, ASA, Nascar etc. All pics of traditional race cars before they went to the pre-fab modern all look the same. I will start with an example. If possible explain what, who and where your pics are at.
DiGard Gatorade Chevrolet Monte Carlo that Waltrip drove to victory in the 1978 World 600, Concord, NC, May 28, 1978
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Richard Petty wins the 1964 Daytona 500
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Bobby Isaac drove the K&K Insurance Dodge to the 1970 NASCAR Grand National championship. Team owner Nord Krauskopf started his operation in 1966 with a five-year plan to win the NASCAR title. With Isaac driving and Harry Hyde filling the role of crew chief, Krauskopf realized his dream in the allotted time frame. Isaac won 11 races and finished second nine times in 47 starts.
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No relation,
Jim Bucher, 1970's. One of few Chevy powered Top fuel dragsters, and the only one to ever win with a Bowtie.
Died in his 30's of a rare blood disease
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My all-time favorite... The Porsche 917/30
Owned by Roger Penske and driven by Mark Donohue. The 917/30 dominated the Can-Am series during the 1973 season, losing only one race.
The 917/30 was the most powerful sports car racer ever built and raced. The 5.374 litre 12 cylinder (90.0 x 70.4 mm) twin-turbocharged engine could produce 1,580 bhp (1,180 kW) in qualifying tune, with twin turbochargers run up to full boost, a simply astonishing 39 psi (2.7 bar), though it usually raced with around 1,100 bhp (820 kW) at 7,800 rpm to preserve the engine. Whilst weighing only in at 1800 lb (816 kg), giving it a power to weight of 1967.36 bhp/tonne in qualifying tune and 1369.68 bhp/tonne in race tune. The 917/30 could go from 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in 1.9 seconds, 0-100 mph (160 km/h) in 3.9 seconds, 0-200 mph (320 km/h) in 10.9 seconds, and on to a top speed of more than 260 mph (420 km/h). These staggering levels of performance, the attendant fuel consumption of the engines, and ever increasing risk, has led to the 917/30 sometimes being cited as the car that killed Can-Am racing.
This pic from Watkins Glen 7/22/73
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Jim,
I did a little search on Jim Bucher; Took a lot of ingenuity to put a BB Chevy up against all those Hemi engines. Turned some pretty fast times back in the day!
Steve
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Nobody else has a favorite old photo? Driver, car, wreck, whatever?
Sad! :'(
Steve
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Heck I can't even upload my own photo let alone someone else's. My favorite all time race car driver is Larry Phillips though. He was the best driver that I ever saw sit down in a race car. Just ask other people like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and Dick Trickle...............RIP # 75
Scott
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Larry Phillips remembered. ;)
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Speaking of Wisconsin's own Dick Trickle...my favorite car of his, the Purple 1970 Mustang.
Picture taken in 1973
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local wisconsin driver billy the cat johnson
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I was waiting for some Johnson family photos...any more?
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Some very interesting stats on Billy "The Cat" Johnson. :o
Steve
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Joeys family is legen...........wait for it.........dary around here.
I believe Dad and Grandpa are in the Wisconsin Short track Hall of Fame, and a couple cousins race Sprint Cars
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I have more pics somewhere Jim. My grandpa and great-grandpa were both inducted into the wisconsin short track hall of fame in 2007 which i believe was the first year of inductees. My dad is not. There is a pretty cool collection of pics that was put together of my grandpa billy johnson on youtube.
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Well, Schwartz has to get in there somehow...how would it look if they skip a generation and just put you in :D ?
heres the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaQej4-6mW8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaQej4-6mW8)
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Cool little video! Ya gotta love those old mods!!!
Steve
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thanks for the confidence boost jim but i got a lot of improving and a long way to go before being thought about for something like the hall of fame.
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Well, ya kick my ass every night...well...you did.
We'll see what the 2011 season holds ;)
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I never saw Larry Phillips in a red and white car. He used to always have a blue and gold car. My Dad and I would go to ASA races and watch Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Dick Trickle, Larry Phillips, Butch Miller and many more that I can't remember right now. It was so cool to watch those guys race and then hang out at the hotel with them. Back in those days they would party till the morning light and get up race and move on to the new town. The good old days were something.
Scott
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I think that the picture of Larry's red and white car was at I-44 Speedway in Missouri. I saw him race out there a few times near the end of his career and it was pretty amazing.
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Larry Phillips, Springfield, MO 1977 or 1978
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In February 1971, A.J. Foyt won the Miller High Life 500 at Ontario, California, in a Wood Bros. Mercury. Ontario Motor Speedway is long gone now-it's a patch of business parks along Interstate 10. Here, A.J. drives underneath Bobby Isaac's Dodge Charger and the blue Plymouth of Richard Petty on his way to victory.
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How about Red Byron's modified. First NASCAR champion. Picture is from the new hall of fame out in Charlotte. Pretty cool place to see as a race fan even if you are not crazy about NASCAR.
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One more from the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Herb Thomas and the Fabulous Hudson Hornet. My 4 year old was sure that it was Doc Hudson from Cars.
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Those are SWEET!! I would love to visit the Hall of Fame sometime! Those Hudsons were hard to beat back in the day. AND; those cars were about as stock as they come back in the 50's. Lots of guys would drive their cars to the race, then, hopefully, back home. Was a much different era from todays cars.
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There are lots of old names that we haven't even started on yet. How about Berna "Barney" Olfield? Not that old? Barney made Ford Motor Company famous by driving the old 999. Here's a pic of Barney driving an unknow make race car at the Missoula (Montana) County Fairgrounds in 1914.
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The old 999
From Leslie's Weekly, Aug. 6, 1903
Barney Oldfield sets a one-mile record at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, N.Y., covering the distance in 55.54 seconds
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This design seems to be drawing a lot of attention. Don Edmunds 1966 Super Modified.
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Rare early photo of Dale Earnhardt, in a Hobby Stock Chevrolet Nova at Hickory Motor Speedway.Gary Hargett was the car owner. He owned cars for both Earnhardt and Harry Gant at Hickory Speedway.
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Pavement Modified from back in my day. lol! Very similar to my car back in the early '80s.
Here’s an image of the famous Judkins #2X. Connecticut’s Waterford Speedbowl and the guy behind the controls is none-other than Reggie Ruggiero, absolutely one of the best drivers to ever strap-in behind the controls of a Modified stock car. Judkins always had nothing but the most talented chauffeurs wheeling his creations. (Kennedy Photo).
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Here are a few old photos. Anyone remember these days?
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How about Marty Robbins? He did manage a few wins.
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A very young Dick Trickle.