And finally the last one for tonight, Buzzie Ruetimann #00 leads the Kerry Schroeder owned K46 valiant bodied car. If this was the Fair race I think Diffendorf won but if its the schaeffer 100 than BUZZIE drove it home #1.
Here's a few more Ewing-Binner Peters shots I found cut from the old DIRT Programs. Frank Heman #33 slides to the top and Pete Cordes #68 and Darrell Welty #66 pass on the low side. Russ Mills Photo.
This one is interesting as it has Pat Wards Dad, Bud Ward battling it out in his FORD Mustang.
I think this one is the rarest of all because I'm not sure I remember the Binner - Peters Latemodel. Is it the late Dennis Taney at the wheel? Help me out. Sorry but I don't have the photo credit.
Was the Dennis Taney picture taken at the Waterloo Speedway?
I'm at work and someone tells me Rick Coyles in the building. It didn't click but then my bud fills in the blanks. Rick is Vern Coyles son. Vern was a very accomplished driver in the fifties. Rick currently drives a modified atr Shangri-La II but he also drove a super-modified for Ernie June back in the early ninties.
He let me borrow this picture. This is Rick with Ernie's famous #59 at Flemington in 1993. This was the first race run on the newly paved track (dirt lovers..unclench your teeth!). According to Rick the car didn't look like this very long as a torsion bar broke with catastrophic results...the car was wreaked badly and Rick was banged up and burned. The car is currently "hanging" with Bobby June
Very cool! Wonder what happened to Rick's last Chevette bodied Modified (the yellow/orange #72)? He also had his own super for a while after the June car. Always liked watching him (and his dad for that matter) run - low dollar for sure, but they give it a solid effort.
Was the Dennis Taney picture taken at the Waterloo Speedway?
Dale and I talked about that but don't think it is Waterloo. The fence makes me think Canandaigua but I could definitely be wrong
Darrell and Dale... there's little doubt in my mind that the Binner Equipment 66 shot was taken at Waterloo. The corrugated metal fence on the outside of the armco barrier was to restrict viewing the track from the street directly on the other side. The track literally sat 8 feet from the road.
There was no official souvenir program for the speedway then. Gater Racing News printed a special page (an outer cover, if you will) for Gaters sold at the track. That print across the top of the picture probably said LM Clay Country, a section devoted to a series of pictures of Late Model action. I still have a few of them tucked away for safe keeping, as well as a bunch of Maplegrove Speedway admission tickets.
Possible drivers in the shot include: Carl Game - 72 (being tagged by the 66), Bill Best - 50 (pushing the 66), Ken Updyke - either 150, 151 or 152 (sitting sideways facing the outside). If I had to guess who was driving the 66, I'd say probably not Denis Taney. He drove a red 11T. My best guess would be either Bill Matteson or Wally Burnett.
Here's another late model flash back from Weedsport. Jack Emerson leads.
All four drivers moved up to the Modifieds and I had the pleasure of racing against them. Jeff Kappaser was probably the most successful of the four in the Modified division. Russ Mills photo.
Here's the car Dad brought home to build into a Latemodel for the racing wars at Chemung and Dundee. Apparently it wasn't the easiest car to build as it was christened the ODTAA SPECIAL. That stood for One Dang Thing After Another Special. He raced this car against Geoff Bodine when he was just getting into stock cars.
Here it is with a heat win after it was up and running. Norm Welty at the wheel. L.O. Duncan Photo.
Found this....check out the HAIR!!!!!!
Milt Johnson, father of Alan and Danny..photographer unknown.
My brother and I were working at Canandaigua when Alan towed in his first #14 modified. Freddy Brooks ran that number, so Alan had to change. Big-mouth brother suggested, "Just put a J on it." Forever more, scorers will bemoan the addition of letters to car numbers.