Here's something I knew I had but didn't find it until today. This is an aerial photo of Addison Hill Speedway that the Addison Hill Racing Assoc. sent out as a postcard to invite racers to their meeting. If you look closely there's two cars racing around the track. The one on the backstraight blends in so it's hard to see. No idea on photo credit except that it was obviously commisioned by AHRA.
Here's another view of my Cousin, Jim King's, Coach bodied Modified. Raced at Fulton on pavement and a few times at Waterloo on the dirt before being destroyed in a flip at Waterloo with Jim driving. The #72 was painted on by tracing around a stencil and then painting inside the lines. My sister had her highschool Art teacher create the stencil and if you look at any of my dad's cars from around 1965 on they are all either #72 or #27 in the same style by using that stencil. I think I still have it somewhere since I'm an incurable racing memrobillia pack rat. Pic by me or possibly my Brother.
Lee OSborne in the #18 at langhorne in '68. It had the flourescent name on the top in a Chevy bowtie-line graphic.
I was scrolling through the interweb and found this...thought it was interesting.
Here's a blurry one I shot at the 72 NYS fair race. My brother in the 2x leads #80 and another car. I think it's Harold Montania in the #80. Not sure bout the other car. pic by me.
Here was the sad end to my Cousin Jim King's modified that I had previously posted. The yellow #72 Coach was "atomized" at Waterloo as the pic in the Gator Racing news described it.
claychamp, this is the only photo I have of Jim King - from Fulton.
Question... is that the radiator mounted sideways in the door??
Question... is that the radiator mounted sideways in the door??
I'm not sure but there might have been an oil cooler there, it wasn't the radiator.
And that is not Jim King, the guy standing on the flat bed is Melvin Acker. He was a crewman on the car.
And I believe that is our uncle Howard Ayres driving the truck.
Melvin Acker was truly a character! The main thing I remember about him was his theory that if you were a good driver you should be able to take corners at double the speed that's posted on the warning speed sign. It's a valid theory in New York State and usually fairly easy to do but some of the postings in PA will definitely be white knuckle turns!!!! I'm pretty sure the radiator was in the normal place in this car. I believe the grate was to let heat out and give access to work on the engine since the body placement on this car put the engine half under the roof and hard to get to. Here's a pic of my cousin, Jim King riding my bike at the very first Super DIRT the 72 Schaefer 100 at the NYS Fairgrounds. I had developed the ablity to ride a continuous wheelie on this bike and Jim was trying his hand at it.
Found a few photos on the old interweb that I thought you all might enjoy...
1) Jim Hurtubise circa 1966 in a Novi in Az.
2) Bryan Osgood and Dutch Hoag
Found a few photos on the old interweb that I thought you all might enjoy...
1) Jim Hurtubise circa 1966 in a Novi in Az.
2) Bryan Osgood and Dutch Hoag
Do you have any more info on the picture with Jim in the Novi. I cant find anything on the Novi with a tail section like that. Also I believe the last time Jim was in a Novi was at Atlanta in 1965. Only Greg Weld dove a Novi in 1966 and it did not look like that. A test run at Phoenix might have been possible, however the cars never raced there.
Pic of "HERK" at Sacramento Champ Car race. Maybe 1959 if I'm thinking right. I believe this was the first 1 mile Champ Car race he won.
I've posted before but here's where I met one of my hero's. Jim H at the 1970 National Open at Langhorne. I'm the little boy, Family friend Ruth Henry beside me and my Mom on the end. Jim was driving the Gil Bruss #2 coupe which several years later Gary Iulg raced with on the dirt at Weedsport. He showed me his burnt up hand that he could jam a beer into. He had the doctors form his hand to fit the steering wheel as they told him he would have very little mobility with the fingers if he lived and recovered which of course he did.
Here's me with the Car. These pics snapped by my Dad, Norm Welty. It was great growing up in a family that loved racing so much that I got to see some of the greats of the day race their hearts out in epic battles that had as much to do with their driving ability as their mechanics ingenuisness at building a better mousetrap.