Hey... Let's Start Another Photo Thread!

[ancrdave]

Bobby Allison takes a win at Birmingham circa 1964-65....

[ancrdave]

Start of 1964 Florida State Championship (now the Governor's Cup) at Golden Gate in Tampa... Dale Creech in #23 with 1963 winner Dave McInnis outside in #32... Dale Alderman is in #27... If you look closely you'll see both Buzzie & Wayne Reutimann, #75 Frank Riddle, #97 Will Cagle, #55 Paul Connors, #15 Dave Scarbrough, #21 Jim Alvis, #84 Jack Arnold, #41 Gene Johnson and #7 Ernie Bass driving the '57 Ford that Lewis Green had just built...

[ancrdave]

The guy who was the Northeast's "Chevy Killer" Dave Dion with his Mercury Cougar... Probably early-mid 70s...

[rad dad 12]

any from golden gate

[ancrdave]

Go to my website - www.floridaracinghistory.com - plenty of Golden Gate pics there!!

[Jimmy McKinley]

Somebody wanted pics of Golden Gate...here ya go

Pic #1: 1978, Charlie Reagan in our car (Bob Kirk's Camaro out of Palm Beach) at the Governor's Cup.

Pic #2: 1972, Bobby Brack in the Bean-pickers #zer0 and Freddy Fryar out of Texas in the Honest Charlie's #15. Randy Tissot in the Ingram #74 Chevelle behind these two.

Pic #3: The 1977 Florida 200 field lines up on the front stretch. Some stout cars here Buck Simmons' Nova on the far right; Gary Balough in Pee Wee Griffin's black and blue #72; Don Gregory in the #7J; Ronnie Pitts in the #49; LeRoy in Lewis Green's Amick Construction #7; and Billy McGinnis in the black and gold Camaro on the far left.

Pic #4: 1982, Jim Childers wheels the Bob Kirk-owned Late Model through turn three. We won a LOT of features with this car...chased Dave Scarborough and Donnie Stanford for two years

Pic #5: Mark Malcuit out of Ohio in the Florida 200 practice session on Friday afternoon in 1983. Daniel Keene's #5 Keene Bros. Trucking machine on the backstretch.

[Frasson118]

That last pic at Golden Gate, I was there that day. Came back the next day for Gov Cup race... my first ever Gov Cup. Jimmy Cope won, in the Mitton Electric 21

[Frasson118]

Forgot tommention that Mark Malcuit also had the coolest racing nickname ever.... "Captain Sizzle"....!

[Jimmy McKinley]

Hey, Jerry, were you referring to my pic of Malcuit in '83? LeRoy won the Cup that year; Cope won it the year before (in '82). That race ('81-'83) was on Friday night; it wasn't a daytime race.

[oldtimer]

Hey, that Senneker New Smyrna photo looks familer, oh thats mine!

Cool shot of Earl Ross, is there more? I didn't know he ventured that far south with his late model.

[Frasson118]

Jimmy... I didn't know Malcuit came there in consecutive years. Thinking that he was only there once (and in the same white & green paint scheme), I assumed it was the year Cope won (couldn't remember the year).

Bottom line is, I missed on this one...!

[ancrdave]

OK... Here's one for you....
The 1957 Southern 500 at Darlington... This is the race that Bobby Myers was killed in but there was another very serious crash on lap 66 involving this car, Pappy Crane's #89 Ford... Crane had chosen a young hotshot driver from Gulfport, MS by the name of Joe Caspolich to drive it... It was Caspolich's first NASCAR race... Crane's car was about as good a ride as you could get back then unless you were racing on a factory team...
Anyway, Caspolich is surprising everybody by actually racing for the lead when he tangled with Bill Blair... The car shot down the banking and destroyed the inside guard railing... Caspolich climbed out, then collapsed and was taken to the hospital... An emergency room doctor quickly pronounced him dead and his body was left on a gurney to be transported to the morgue... A young doctor was given the task of taking the body there and he recognized Caspolich and, on a whim, checked his pulse and YES, he was alive... So they went to work on him and got him stable... A bruised heart was the problem along with numerous broken bones but Caspolich recovered and began racing again, even running a few more NASCAR GN races through 1961... His big claim to fame was working as a stunt man along with Buck Baker, Joe Eubanks, Curtis Turner, Neil Castles and Joe Weatherly on the 1960 movie "Thunder in Carolina" that starred Rory Calhoun and Alan Hale (who went on to fame as "The Skipper" on the Gilligan's Island TV show)...
OK, so why did that young doctor recognize Caspolich? Because when he was a kid, Caspolich had given him a trophy after he won a short track race about 10 years before... People do remember acts of kindness!

[ancrdave]

Modifieds racing at Richmond in 1947...

[ancrdave]

Joie Chitwood Thrill Show in 1955...

[ancrdave]

See if you recognize this guy... You know his grandson pretty well.. His nickname was "Ruff House"....