Tales of the "old days"

I'm an old timer who went with my dad who was a Mopar mechanic back in the mid-late 50's & early 60's. Then was gone for over 40 years. The first time we saw Dandy Don do his time trials @BC, I can remember my dad cussing that damn Ford is real trouble. Was he ever right. Back then everybody ran time trials. Then coming back after being gone, about 5 years ago on a rainy night @ BC, a dash between The Hammerman on the low & #50 on the high, door to door for the whole dash. Sat near finish line & couldn't tell who won & wasn't only one TTG announced the Hammerman won, but they gave the checkered flag to Dixon & been hooked since.
 
what did they call the lower class of mod at highland??was it cadets?me and jerry de.john brought our allied 57 chevys to highland one night,,i started on the front row outside,,dennis sellers in a coupe on the pole,,the track was right for the 57s that night,we ran 1-2 in the feature,,then spanky (burnells pal)took me to broadway,,never made it home that night,i stayed at spankys house in marine,,i think
 
been thinking about the old days. Back when i was in high school (late 70's) my friends dad bought Bill Faust's championship car and started racing. i remember stopping at the local store to pick up sponsorship yep beer for after the races. I remember standing in the infield during hot laps with the wedge wrench in hand ready to make adjustments before qualifying. I remember when i got to pack the track for the first time wow! And buying used tires from Walter Kunz thinking we really had something now. We never did win any features but won a few semi's and when we made the feature without running the semi we really celabrated.
 
Started going with Dad and his pal when I was about 5 or 6. It all definitely got into my blood early.. every Saturday nite at Highland it seemed. I still have all my programs from early to mid 80's. Bill, Bob, Ken, Mark Faust, Curt Allen, Dennis Sellers, Terry & Todd Issack, Chris Bargetzi.. Marty Sr., Tom Goodall, I still remember alot of drivers Guess who was my favorite though..? (Image Attatched?)
 

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drb28 said:
I remember the grudge matches at bell clair between Klein-Moser and Klein-Hammerle. I also remember a yellow car that had an automatic tranny at pevely, I think his name was Bo Bo Bob Nelson, I could be wrong tho, that was awhile ago
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That was BoBo Bobby Nelsons car and it still exists its one of Mcclintocks Vintage cars
 
Adam this is jeff i remember rootn for denneis sellers in that bad *** red deuce car and always going back to school and fighting with the trame kids cause they were rick kloos fans and relatives of rick boy those were the good old days great post buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
My first memory dates back to about 1976 or 77 when I sat in Kevin Goss' Triple Nickel at the gas station at the end of the road. That was right next to Godfrey Speedway. I was HOOKED! I remember one night about '86 when there was a big fuss between John Seers and Kenny Edwards. The Seets' wound up raccing the rest of the year at Tri City. Both were Saturday night tracks then.
 
Walter Kunz....:)
Outlaw8525 said:
Started going with Dad and his pal when I was about 5 or 6. It all definitely got into my blood early.. every Saturday nite at Highland it seemed. I still have all my programs from early to mid 80's. Bill, Bob, Ken, Mark Faust, Curt Allen, Dennis Sellers, Terry & Todd Issack, Chris Bargetzi.. Marty Sr., Tom Goodall, I still remember alot of drivers Guess who was my favorite though..? (Image Attatched?)
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