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Ross has put some of my family 8mm videos up on his facebook page. Ross Wece. Centralia, Turnpike, Haubstat.

It was a 1935 chevy coupe. The gold 88, before dad John Stearns owned it. That was it's last race as it was destroyed beyond repairable. There was another car being built at that time, the Nash Metropolitan, the crash at Benton expedited it's debut.

It was dusty that night and he ran into the back of another car that was stopping, he was pretty much wide open ready to back off for the corner.

Doug "The Flying" Cross was made famous at the Turnpike. His failed attempt jumping the flaming haybales was witnessed by a full grandstand and most notably thousands of the WSIL TV audience.

Name dropping drivers at Williamson County Speedway and Turnpike: Norman Bubby Jones, Dick Gaines, Bob Kinser, Tom Tepe, Hooker Hood, Cliff Cockrum who was a big influence on Steve Kinser. Car owners/tuners: Karl Kinser, Briscoe, M. A. Brown, Don Hawthorne, and a man I will idolize forever John...

I found this thread by doing a google for Cliff Johns. I occasionally do a search on racers whose names randomly pop into my head. Amazing the other names on here. Gary Easton is my dad, Bill Bost my neighbor, Joe Tom "Flying Dutchman" Reams granddaughter is soon to marry my nephew. A few years...

I must have built 100 sets of those Zoomie pipes like on the Gene's old car. Dad, Gary Easton, bought a huth tubing bender around 1976. Those pipes and wheels and front wing look to be around '78, the top wing style throws me as it was a much older style '72/74.