My father ended his racing career in midgets at Blue Island durning a Wally Zale Memorial Race Sept 3, 1949. I have a picture of me standing by the Blue 98 Offy the next morning at the track. He did three end over ends before the car finally landed on it's side but than was pushed about 27 feet by other cars before it came to rest. He shattered his wrist and cracked an arm bone. My father's racing career started in 1933 when he drove a big car owned by Art Hartly and finished 3rd in his first race. Throughout a good part of the thirties he drove one of the three little pigs for Pappy Hough. My father was 38 when he flipped that night. If anyone has old pictures, publiacations I'd be more than interested. The 40 lap featured continued after the wreck and Johnny Roberts took first place honors. mailto:mailto:austinzent2005@yahoo.com
Anybody got pictures of a car numbered 213 from 1967-1969. I have none. A fire in 1983 took all the pictures I had out. That was my retail route number, 213. In 69 I got drafted and that was that. Kids came quick and I had to work two jobs to make ends meet afterwards. contact mailto:rocknrollpapa@aol.com if you have any info. Thanks. Will pay for the pictures.
I was wodering why there is no mention of my uncle (Henry G. "SMITTY" Smith) eho drove the numer 13 late model at Raceway for over ten years and had at least 15 feature wins and yet he is not listed as a feature winner. The las time I saw Bud Koehler was at my uncles birthday party in Calumet city, and if my memory serves me correctly, that was in 1979. Incidently, I'm 65 now and have not retired. I stink at golf so I am thinking about running in the pro-stock (dirt) division out in phoenix next year. If any one can put me in touch with some one that has photos of "SMITTY'S" 13 car it would be greatly appreciated and please see that he gets on the list of feature winners. Ron Highsmithmailto:mailto:highsmithronald@yahoo.com
looking for someone who really has photos from 1967-1970 raceway park drivers. my father [craig stevens[ raced there then with drivers such as speedy,kemperman,koeler, etc. my father one wany races there and ive loked on these sites for old photos of him or his cars and funny i still find none of them. i use to have all the many trophys he won and all the photos of him racing as well in victory lane. however we had a fire and all of it burned up. my father has now passed away before i could locate someone who remembers him or has pictures of him. i can remember a few of the cars, one was called the green hornet and had the big bee on it, another was a checker board car, the whole car done up like the checker flag, and most of all my first birthday was on that track and his car was mark-1. there was a big get together that nite at the track, there was a cake the size of the hood on the car and all the drivers and there familys had cake with us that nite. im really hoping someone can find some of the photos. really kind of funny i cant find any of him now, yet so many others he raced with. his name again was- craig stevens- the years im looking for are between 67-70. so i hope someone can help me locate those lost family phots,programs,etc. im his son, mark stevens the one who was painted on his car on my first birthday-mark-1, that was back on sept 1968. anyone who can help me out or remembers him that can help me, my email address is - mailto:masrecovery@aol.com my phone no# is 1-920-907-0144, feel free to contact me at home if not there please leave me a message and no# i will call you back. otherwise feel free to email me. once again thanks to all who can help, and to those he raced with thanks for all the memories.
Anyone have any pictures of Ray Para Jr. He was my father who passed away in 2003 at the age of 42. I barely have any pictures of him during the racing days and those were some of the best memories I have as a little girl. I would appreciate anything you have. I would love to share these memories with my kids one day.
steve what a great site so many cool pics. send me a email would like more info on contributions to help keep this great site going. keep up the good work. johnny juarez
Great site, I saw a picture of Wayne Bowdish's 1960 T bird. Might anyone have any info on that T bird? Is that one of the Holman Moody built T Birds for 1959? Any help will be appreciated, thank you.
My dad raced at raceway in the 90s and I only have one photo of him his car number was 65 his name is Mike Baxter if anyone has video or pictures please email me thank you.
My father raced at Raceway Park from about 1958 to 1962 I am looking for pictures of him. If anyone has any info. I do not know his # just that he drove a ford. His name was Charles Sutterfield. Any info would be appreciated.
I really enjoyed the site. My father Larry Pharher, Also know as Larry "Featherfoot" Farr, Raced at Raceway from the late 40's to the mid to late 50's. He hung with the likes of Bill Van Allen, Bob Halston. He'd talk about the races when the big boys came in such as Lee Petty, Ned Jarret, Larry Foyt, Buck Baker, Carroll Shelby, etc, etc. He used to work for Andy Granatelli when he had his shop near Western Ave. When I was a child, I had the honor of some of these guy coming over to the house on a Sunday afternoon for dinner, cocktails and racing stories. They would put us to bed and carry on till the wee hours. Many a night, after being put to bed, I would sneak down the stairs and listen to the stories. I was found sleeping on those stairs many nights as well. I have many pics of my dad and his friends at Raceway park as well as pics from around the country. Some of my favorites are of him, Bob Halston, Buck Baker, one of the Granatellis and a few other guys standing next to there cars on the sand stretch of Daytona. Another is of him sitting in his indy car on the front stretch at Martinsville 1951. My 1st race memory was taking the victory lap with Bill Van Allen when he won the feature in I want to say 1968. Somewhere around there. Anyway. The reason for this post is I'm looking for more photos of these guys. I have many but I know there are more out there. My dad raced the 88 car and I believe it was a Nash. Is there any other sites that might carry the feature winners at Raceway park? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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