i forgot he did use a schoolbus/car hauler ... Just remembered a few of the LM drivers Dave Jackson Glenn Lapollis <--- think name spelled wrong and Chuck Winslow <--- i do remember him driving a green w/black strip i do believe was the color #61 .. I know one night at shang coming down front straight this happen in front of me he was running in top 3 something broke or engine blowed sending him into a spin scattering everyone because of all the fluid he left... I do know these days he devotes his time helping his sons race at Blackrock... Anyone else remember any LM drivers and don't worry i know what CRAZY GEORGE has been up to... I think he may have been the only one to hold it to the floor and dirt track it through the corners at shang..
wouldnt want that tire bill after he raced
Here's a few drivers not sure weather you consider them LM or SS drivers (back then they called them either one / BOTH)! All depends who you talked to ! With what all that was done to the cars, One really couldn't consider them Street Stocks ? JMO;
RC Wilcox #37
Tiger Smith #26
Gordy Smith #34
Wayne Lent #20
Bill Chandler #12
Billy Zack #17
Lyle Williams #5
Brad Smales #41
Ricky Zack #71
Fred Quail #40
Doug Depew #22
Ron Mesmer #75 spl ?
Barry Bowen #47
Walt Romanik # ?
Ed McGuire #51
Eddy Dobler #25
Chris Pozzi #8
Mike Letho #2
Dick Finnerty #3
John Preston #72
Tommy Zack #?
I know there are several more, getting old ?? LOL
Mike Lehto in the 2
Mike Sexton #14
Dick Stein #9 (and also #1) - copied Bill Elliot's #'s all the time
Jack Luce #66 or 63
Bob Curren #63
Lee Sherwood ran ss/lm in that era #95 (Lee's old Microd # was 15 but there was already a 15 in action in the ss class so he became 95)
Ron Messemer ran the 75
Diane Messemer ran the 74 (also later drove a sport mod #75 for her father Bruce Burdick)
Tom Zacharias drove a street stock #88 for a while
Tim Connelly also drove ss/lm around then and started as a blue #12 - went to 42 when he got into Modifieds because Larry Nye was the 12)
there was a Steve Cola and a Cola Shay.... can't remember which one, but at one time one of their cars died on the front stretch and the drive got out and ran to the s/f line and then slipped and fell on the line - then announcer John Lawrence took up a collection to get that driver a new body or paint job for his car and the guy never came back after that.
Ron Shephard in the white #2 (also his old Microd number)
Al Chapman was the 15
Frank Chapman ran a black 89
Chris Pozzi also drove a white #1 and the famous General Lee lookalike 01
Marty Messemer (son of Ron and Diane) also drove a ss for a short while - can't recall the #, might have been 4 or 74.
Gary Cleveland ran the 88 car
Jeff Cleveland (who now lives in Ohio) drove a 73 ss (also ran DIRT IMCA mods for years)
Glenn Lippolis ran the 85 and the 8 - now runs a Sport Mod at the new SL2
Dave Jackson also runs a Sport Mod at the new SL2
Bob and or Jeff Frisbee in the white #2 ss/lm
Paul Bernard in the 10
Eric Bodine in a 21
Duane Ellis in the 24 car
who can forget Jan Leaty in the black & grey 52 (changed his number to 25 in mods mostl probably due to Doug Hewitt or Mark Fleury already having a 52)
Stan Mieczkowski in a yellow 38 (or was it 39... he may have run both?)
Ed McGuire in the always fast 51's
Dan Koonmen in the 52
57 Vince Randisi
hmm... that's about the best I can do for now... If someone has already mentioned these in a post between the one I quoted and mine, I apologize - I'm too lazy to weed through them.
-J