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Here is something a little different. Florida City mini stock driver Ed Bowling has the finishing touches put on his English Ford. Note the fancy shop and stacker trailer.
This happened under a yellow flag, believe it or not. George Powell spun his #52 in turn 1, but before the field slowed down, he took off down the front straight at full speed in the wrong direction. Naturally, he was headed right at someone, so they both turned toward the infield at the same time and WHAMO.
This was in Hialeah's Cyclone class in the early '70's. It was the roughest racing that I remember.
Ronnie Burkhart in the 54 stands on it during an early 1970's figure 8 race. Ronnie went on to race LMs at Hialeah with the same yellow and black paint scheme.
Your's truly in Guy Ratcliff's LM #59 after a Feature win @ SS in the mid-70's.
The 59 was out of Plant City and was normally driven by Frank Johnson however, Guy recruited my services for a shake-down race from time-to-time when the FOUR was out of commision.
Assistant Starter Bob Phillips in the foreground with the flag.
“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun, but mama, that's where the fun is”
~ Manfred Mann ~
Have you seen that Suzuki Samurai push truck at the open wheel races lately? That is driven by "Sammy", who recently returned to Florida. Long before his push truck days, he built and raced lots of cars including this Morris Minor mini stock.
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