Photo by numbers....

[Frasson118]

Johnny Mackison Jr. from Central PA.

His father also was a Sprint car racer in PA, and both did very well

Johnny also ran a part-time Hooters Cup schedule in the Northern region, although I think he was here at Lakeland for one of the Showdown races.

[Frasson118]

Kenny Troyer, son of Maynard. KT was never the huge name and big winner that his father was, but still brought home a few checkered flags.

He and I used to race Mini-bikes at the same track when we were kids, but he quit the year before I started... we know a bunch of the same people... but he and I have never met. Hope to change that someday!

[Frasson118]

Ron "Sleepy" Tripp, from California. One of the best All-time Midget racers, he is, or will be, in every Hall of Fame that recognizes Midget racers. Besides kicking ass all over the US, he won a ton of races in both Austrailia and New Zealand too and is a legend on their continent also.

He got his nickname as a small boy, when he was caught napping while strapped into his 1/4 Midget car, while lined up for his feature race.

The car pictured is owned by Gary Zarounian, who is a legendary car owner himself. Some of the guys who have driven for Gary include Kasey Kahne, Donnie Beechler, Jack Hewitt, Ken Schrader, and dozens of others. Zarounian does NOT hire guys who can't mash the pedal!

[Frasson118]

A couple of pictures of "Pistol Pete" Cordes, from Sydney NY. He was a real tall skinny dude, who was also refered to as "Lanky" Pete.

The other car is the 11 of Davey Moore, from St. Catherines ONT, who was known as "The Canadian Blast". This might be the former Will Cagle car that was a project for Stock Car Racing magazine. Will couldn't make it win, and sold the car of to Cliff Barcomb of Wembley Construction. Cliff was instrumental in the early days of Alan "AJ Slideways" Johnsons career.

[Frasson118]

Many fans of the Golden Age of Modified racing seem to agree that the "Hemi Cuda" was one of the coolest racecars ever built. Nobody was using Mopar engines, very few had Mopar bodies, and almost none of the drivers was foreign. It was very low, had a ton of offset, and ran like a rocket. It's biggest issue was reliability.

Jean-Guy Chartrand was from Montreal, Quebec, and car owner Ed Cloce was from Pottsdam NY.

Jim Shampine also ran this car for Cloce, and Ed's son Tommy is still a racer in the ACT Series in New England.

If you think this car is wild, let me find the SUPER Modified they put together... another insane creation that took some real balls to get behind the wheel of!

[Frasson118]

Here's a cool looking 55 Chevy. Check out the camber in the right front wheel. Almost looks broken.

[Frasson118]

Strange shot here. JD McDuffie running alongide Neil "Soapy" Castles, both of them chasing a loose wheel. Neither car appears to be "down" on either side, so not sure whose wheel it actually is!

[Frasson118]

Another strange one that I'm sure has a story behind it.

JD McDuffie is on the inside in his familiar car number 70. However, the #7 to his outside appears to be one of JD's own cars, without the "0" painted on (or painted over). I wonder who the 7 is, and how this deal came about.

The car JD is in looks an awful lot like the #71 car that Dave Marcis ran from the JD Stacy stable of cars.

[ModelCarMan]

It's me in 1989!!! I drove in three races, never wanted to drive a race car personally, just wanted to build and own them....call me my dad's son. Dad raced once, so I'm two up on him. I did get a driver and we did pretty well for a very under funded team, no wins but lots of seconds.

[Jimmy McKinley]

Another strange one that I'm sure has a story behind it.

JD McDuffie is on the inside in his familiar car number 70. However, the #7 to his outside appears to be one of JD's own cars, without the "0" painted on (or painted over). I wonder who the 7 is, and how this deal came about.

The car JD is in looks an awful lot like the #71 car that Dave Marcis ran from the JD Stacy stable of cars.

Did some asking around, and this is what I found out:

"I think that was Jeff McDuffie in the spare/team car. I'm not sure where J.D. got the LeMans from, it almost looks like a Ranier car. Marcis's car was a Malibu, not a LeMans."

And:

"On top of mind this is his son Jeff's lone start of the 1982 season."

[Jim Fenton]

Thanks for the narratives on your posts Jerry, especially on the open wheel stuff that some of us didn’t follow back then.

I had to smile when I saw the Torpedo Heater keeping the engine oil temp up on the #65 Johnny Mackison car in PA.

We never raced in cooler climates enough to worry about that however I do remember one year at the World Series of Asphalt at NSS it was colder than he!! so we stuck a space heater under the hood of the FOUR one night with an extension cord from the motor home to keep her warm.

[ModelCarMan]

Here's Dave Dunkin's car at Charlotte in 1976. One of the tire changers that day was Rick Wilson of Bartow. I was the lap counter, with my dad the catch can man. Dave was doing pretty good until a wheel bearing went out during the race.

[hotrodb8898]

Who was the guy to the right of Rick Wilson? I use to have an old latemodel picture of Wilson and he was in it.

[ModelCarMan]

Who was the guy to the right of Rick Wilson? I use to have an old latemodel picture of Wilson and he was in it.

I can't remember his name, but what I remember was he was around Rick a lot during the 70s.

[Winger]

The picture you posted of Pete Cordes really brought back some memories. That was taken in my old hometown at Midstate Speedway. The track and grandstands are still there and it hosts a county fair once a year. Occasionally they run an antique race but nothing else but horses. This track was the first track that Glen Donnelly (DIRT) hosted a race at, I believe. Could be wrong about that. The TC9 was driven by Joe Donahue, one of the top drivers at the time.