DAARA 2009 MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOS PART TWO

HERE ARE THREE OF DALE REIGLES OLD PHOTOS FROM LANCASTER SPEEDWAY IN NEW YORK STATE..#7 DUTCH HOAG..

THE GREAT RICHIE EVANS..

THE LEGEND JIMMY SHAMPINE'S 8BALL CAR..

MEET RONNIE ROHN...

RON HESS NEW OWNER OF THE #18 AND WAY BACK IN 1974 AT LEBANON VALLEY SPEEDWAY EAST OF ALBANY, NY.

Wow, what a ride! Ray LeClaire brought his beautiful 1956 Kurtis/Offie to the Bonneville salt flats for Speed Week and gave me the honor to drive it for the event! Of the over 500 entries, this is one of the best and most popular cars there. Ray and I are good friends and get along very well. It seems that every tuning idea he has , I agree with (even the wrong ones!). We made 9 runs during the week and all were very close to the record. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 we broke the record, running over 136 mph. This was at 7300 ft. corrected altitude, 107 degree air temp. on salt. At daylight the next morning, we were required to back up the record, which we did at an average of 136.1 mph. That's fast (the world's fastest) for 97 cubic inches, and a 72 inch wheelbase! It's a handful to drive, but what an honor! Thanks, Ray and Val and all who helped.....Bill Wendt

GOOD BYE XL-1 AND WELCOME #28..DALE "ROCK" REIGLE WILL BE DOING A #28 PAINT SCHEME ON HIS NEWLY ACQUIRED COUPE TO HONOR KENNY MEAHL..KENNY WHO ROCK WATCHED FOR MANY YEARS AT LANCASTER SPEEDWAY IS IN THE NEW YORK STATE RACING HALL OF FAME.

BILL WENDT AT KAMP MOTOR SPEEDWAY DURING THE INDIANA USAC SPEEDWEEK SHOW..(Dave Merritt photo)

RON HESS ASKED BILL MCPEEK TO HELP HIM GET COMFORTABLE IN HIS NEWLY PURCHASED #18 MODIFIED..MANY LAPS LATER OF RUNNING AT ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD WITH BILL RON FELT HE WAS READY TO RUN SAFELY WITH DAARA MEMBERS..(Hess photos)

DAARA MEMBER RON HESS WAS ALL SMILES WHEN HE PURCHASED THE #18 FROM DALE REIGLE..BILL MCPEEK GAVE HIM A HAND WHEN THEY PICKED UP THE CAR IN SARASOTA..(McPeek photo)

JOHN HILL WHO WROTE ABOUT AUTO RACING IN CENTRAL NEW YORK FOR 35 YEARS HAS DIED..WHEN I RETURNED HOME TO WORK SUPER DIRT WEEK AT SYRACUSE FOR 15 YEARS IT WAS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO TALK TO JOHN..I CALLED HIM THE PAUL HARVEY OF RACING..CLICK HERE FOR THE JOHN HILL STORY THE PICTURES ON THE RIGHT SHOW HIM FILMING AT OSWEGO SPEEDWAY WHEN NOLAN JOHNCOCK AND BECAME AIRBORNE FEET FROM JOHN..THE LOWER ONE IS LATER IN THE PITS WITH JOHN TALKING TO NOLAN..

THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT NEW SMYRNA SPEEDWAY DURING A TEST SESSION..NOW IS IT THE PICTURE OR IS J.T. DUNN AND GENE VITIELLO RACING WHEEL TO WHEEL..(Vitiello photo)

JIM WORK SENT THESE PICTURES WHEN THE CAR WAS ON DISPLAY IN THE JACKSONVILLE BEACH MUSEUM..Racer Joseph B. "Bert" Moyers built the Piston Ring Special with a 1928 Chevrolet four-cylinder engine on a shortened and narrowed 1927 Essex frame under a hand-formed body with nickel-plated radiator shell.Torpedo-shapedsingle-seaters such as the Simplex Piston Ring Special, with blaring exhausts and skinny tires, once rocketed down the sand, closing in on 200-mph speed records or racing around barrels in what would evolve into oval races on asphalt at places such as Daytona Beach.

LARRY LARIVEE WOULD LIKE YOU TO SUPPORT RICHIE EVANS BEING ELECTED TO THE HALL OF FAME..

DALE REIGLE NOW OWNS JOHN CLARK'S XL-1 ROLLER...

FORMER DAARA MEMBER THE LATE BILL ROYNON'S R1 SUPERMODIFIED HAS BEEN RESTORED AND IS NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME IN KNOXVILLE, IOWA..

IT RAINED WHILE DON FARNUM ON THE RIGHT INSTALLED A NEW VW ENGINE IN HIS MIDGET WITH HELP FROM ERIC SORG..ERIC IS LOOKING FOR A VW MIDGET ROLLER FOR HIMSELF..(McPeek photo)

HAVE YOU RECEIVED YOUR AUGUST COPY OF VINTAGE OVAL RACING MAGAZINE..?

GENE VITIELLO'S #99 PINTO IS FINISHED AND HAS A NEW COAT OF PAINT..

THIS PICTURE OF GORDY WOOD'S #96 WAS SENT TO US BY DAVE WESTERMAN..IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS TAKEN IN THE EARLY 60's..

DAARA PRESIDENT BILL WENDT WAS AT KAMP MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN BOSWELL, INDIANA THURSDAY NIGHT DURING THE USAC INDIANA SPEEDWEEK SHOW..(Knapp photo)

HE WAS ON VACATION AND TOOK HIS FAVORITE TWO THINGS..COOKIE AND HIS MIDGET..(Knapp photo)

BILL PROMOTED DAARA WHILE DISPLAYING HIS CAR AND BEFORE THE USAC FEATURE HE RAN SOME LAPS FOR THE CROWD..JIMMYJEEP WAS THERE TO PUSH BILL AND YOUNG BRICE SIEGEL SERVED AS CREW CHIEF..(Knapp photo)

SCOTT KURTZNER'S DIRT MODIFIED IS TAKING SHAPE..THEY HAVE INSTALLED A NEW FRONT CLIP, REAR BUMPER, AND ARE INSTALLING NEW BRACKETS IN FOR THE MOTOR AND TRANNY..

HAVE YOU SEEN THE JULY 2009 ISSUE OF VINTAGE OVAL RACING MAGAZINE..?..THE FRONT COVER HAS A PICTURE TAKEN BY DAVE BURLINGAME OF #80 FRED STRICKLAND AND #8 SCOTT WINTER RACING AT VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY PARK..

LARRY LARIVEE HAS A NEW BULLET IN HIS #7/11 AND WILL BE READY FOR SPEEDWORLD AND NEW SMYRNA SPEEDWAY..(Larivee photo)

CAN YOU GUESS WHO OWNS THESE LICENSE PLATES..I KNOW IT MUST BE A MEMBER OF DAARA..

NEW MEMBER TOBI SMITH FROM TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA IS BUILDING THIS REPLICA OF THE #2X ED FLEMKE/BOB JUDKINS TRIBUTE PINTO PAVEMENT MODIFIED.

RICHARD SMITH HAS A NEW BULLET IN HIS CAR AND HAS ADDED A WING..READY TO ROCK..

RICHARD SMITH ASKED THAT I PUT HIS BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURE TOGETHER FOR HIM...FIRST NIGHT OUT IN A NON DAARA SANTIONED RACE WITH HIS NEW MOTOR AND WING HE MADE IT THROUGH THE SKEETER RACE IN GEORGIA..THE WINNER DECIDED TO DO A POLISH VICTORY LAP JUST BEFORE ALL THE CARS HAD CLEARED THE TRACK.. "BOOM BOOM OUT GOES THE LIGHTS"..RICHARD WAS OKAY BUT DID I SEE A "CAVEMAN" CAR IN THE PHOTO...

SCOTT KURTZNER'S MODIFIED #76 FRAME IS GETTING CLOSE TO POWER COAT TIME IN CENTRAL FLORIDA..

JIM KASERMAN HAD HIS DAARA FORD #21 ON DISPLAY AT THE MINNESOTA TWINS HAMMOND STADIUM IN FT. MYERS JUNE 26, 2009 DURING THE ANNUAL RACER'S NIGHT ACTIVITIES..THIS WAS HELD PRIOR TO THE FORT MYERS MIRACLE VS THE DAYTONA BEACH CUBS MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME..IN ADDITION TO THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO "CHECKED OUT" OLD 21, A PHOTO OF THE CAR AND THE DAARA WEBSITE WERE FLASHED ON THE LARGE SCOREBOARD DURING VARIOUS PARTS OF THE GAME..
JIM WAS INTERVIEWED AND THE CAR WAS FEATURED ON THE LOCAL NBC NEWS TELEVISION STATION'S 11 p.m. AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING SPORTS EDITIONS..BRIAN COLLERAN, SPORTS DIRECTOR, DIRECTED AND DID THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW..

THIS IS JOHNNY BENSON'S BEFORE AND AFTER SUPER MODIFIED CRASH...

JIM KASERMAN SENT THIS PICTURE OF JOHNNY BENSON, SR. WINNING YET ANOTHER OF HIS HUNDREDS OF RACES..BENSON DROVE THE CAR BUILT AND OWNED BY KASERMAN'S FRIEND JERRY ADEMA'S FATHER WHO OWNED A LARGE STANDARD OIL DEALERSHIP IN THEIR NATIVE MICHIGAN..

IF YOU MISSED IT LAST YEAR DON'T LET IT GO BY THIS YEAR...WE MADE SURE THERE WASN'T A SVS SHOW THAT WEEKEND..

REMEMBER WHEN NORTH FLORIDA SPEEDWAY HAD TO CANCEL OUR JUNE 5th SVS SHOW..WELL THEY RAN THE NEXT DAY..LOOK WHERE THE ARROW IS POINTING..(Razpewton photos)

WHO'S THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA..?..IT'S GORDIE WOOD AT A SVS RACE BEFORE HE WENT HOME TO WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK..(McPeek photos)

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