Whoops, its late and my eyes are tired, Loyd Holt did sign his program.
Frank Heeman and Lloyd Holt are correct (the signatures are correct too, one not shown, it's in the program, Kenny Moore). The 88T may be a tough one.
88T last name Cunningham seems as though it was Dan but I also think there was a brother than raced it
88T last name Cunningham seems as though it was Dan but I also think there was a brother than raced it
Dan Cunningham is correct.
Anybody have any Rene Charland Pics of the past ?
Anybody have any Rene Charland Pics of the past ?
1970 SHANGRI-LA ALLSTAR RACE.
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Don Diffendorf in the Sandman #12 at Fulton. Not sure of the year. Smith Photo. I remember this car when it came over on the dirt. Chuck Ciprich gave it some good rides and one very scary one where he knocked a hunk out of the Rolling Wheels Amilee Pro score board about 15 feet up in the air! Duh...now I see the sept 69 on the photo edge.
Dale Merz in the 4D latemodel - modern stock at Fulton. Photo print date on edge says Sept 1969. Smith Photo.
Chuck Ciprich gave it some good rides and one very scary one where he knocked a hunk out of the Rolling Wheels Amilee Pro score board about 15 feet up in the air!
I have the other pic of him actually knocking down the scoreboard somewhere. Think it was 1972. Not sure of photographer, maybe B&B.
WOW!!! Talk about heavy impact, that's just amazing! And how ironic is it that the 2 worst wrecks in probably all of Rolling Wheels history involved Chuck Ciprich? The other was when Jeff Kappesser stalled along the outside wall coming off turn 4, and everyone was scrambling to get underneath him. Ciprich came off 4 by the outside wall and throttled Kappesser wide open. A huge ball of fire, both cars flipped numerous times, with Ciprich stopping where the crossover gate used to be. Not a wheel or single piece of bodywork left on the car.
I saw Ciprich a couple of years ago at a Waterloo Reunion party and asked him if he remembered the crash. He did and said he never lifted because he never saw Kappesser. He went on to say that he was knocked out cold in the wreck and didn't regain consciousness until after he got to the hospital. He chuckled about the rest of the story though. He said that when he finally woke up, his car owner was standing in the emergency room with a real concerned look on his face. Chuck knew he was involved in a wreck because he was still wearing his firesuit, so he asked if the car could be fixed before the feature. The car owner (I forget who he said it was) told him the car wasn't all that bad. So Chuck asked him what they were waiting for, and insisted that they go back to the track to fix the car.
To this day, after thousands of races, that wreck is still among the worst I've ever seen personally. If I had to guess, this would have been in the '77 - '78 - '79 area.
WOW!!! Talk about heavy impact, that's just amazing! And how ironic is it that the 2 worst wrecks in probably all of Rolling Wheels history involved Chuck Ciprich? The other was when Jeff Kappesser stalled along the outside wall coming off turn 4, and everyone was scrambling to get underneath him. Ciprich came off 4 by the outside wall and throttled Kappesser wide open. A huge ball of fire, both cars flipped numerous times, with Ciprich stopping where the crossover gate used to be. Not a wheel or single piece of bodywork left on the car.
I saw Ciprich a couple of years ago at a Waterloo Reunion party and asked him if he remembered the crash. He did and said he never lifted because he never saw Kappesser. He went on to say that he was knocked out cold in the wreck and didn't regain consciousness until after he got to the hospital. He chuckled about the rest of the story though. He said that when he finally woke up, his car owner was standing in the emergency room with a real concerned look on his face. Chuck knew he was involved in a wreck because he was still wearing his firesuit, so he asked if the car could be fixed before the feature. The car owner (I forget who he said it was) told him the car wasn't all that bad. So Chuck asked him what they were waiting for, and insisted that they go back to the track to fix the car.
To this day, after thousands of races, that wreck is still among the worst I've ever seen personally. If I had to guess, this would have been in the '77 - '78 - '79 area.
I might have a pic of that too if it's the wreck I'm thinking of. Was he driving Denny Plank's 77x?
Plancks car was a yellow 77x. This was a dark blue 38 if I remember right.
I just found his flip in the 77x at RWR in a '78 program (If that's Chuck Akulis passing by as he hits the scoreboard in '72, it's kind of ironic that Akulis is on the cover of the '78 program). It is a different wreck. I'll post it tomorrow. It did say he was shaken up. Man, he had some nasty wrecks. I posted the one at Weedsport in '76 in the 0 a while back.
I'm wondering if the one you remember was also '78. Kappesser was still driving Late Models in '77 I think, and I have almost all of the '79 programs.
Kappesser was driving a gray 37j Modified - but my memory says the numbers were blue. This one below has red numbers and from 1979.
I believe it was his first year, and I also want to say it was Mopar powered. Anyway, he started toward the front (back in the good old days of honest handicapping). He turned maybe 1 or 2 laps, and then the car stalled going through the 4th turn. He did what he could... stayed tight to the wall because the pits in those days were in the infield. The problem was, his car became invisible in the shadow cast from the front stretch lights over the front stretch wall. I was on the top row about 50 feet down from where the 4th turn ends and becomes the front stretch. The impact was dead in front of me.
It's not often when the sound of the impact punches you in the chest like Mike Tyson, and this one did. You'll know the picture I am talking about when you see it. It's FUGLY. I could be wrong, but I think the motor and tranny were also chucked out of the Ciprich car.