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CurtK
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Posted: Saturday May 19th, 2007 05:33 AM |
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| Not sure of the track but I believe by the name on the car and the drivers side profile that it's Doug James in a Barney Barnes #29.
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Posted: Saturday May 19th, 2007 07:18 AM |
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7W would be Dick Wilskey.
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Posted: Saturday May 19th, 2007 04:34 PM |
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Lined up behind Doug James it looks like Bob Gregg in the 27, Gordy Stewart in the English Bros. T in turn 4 and maybe Gary Miller from Calgary next to the wall with the small wheel wings.
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Posted: Saturday May 19th, 2007 04:43 PM |
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In Bobs other picture Palmer Crowell is in the 26 (Castle) car. Possibly John McPhearson in the 7 and Jack Eckman in the yellow car but can't remember for sure 30 some years ago. It was probably from the opening CAMRA race at Spanaway.
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Posted: Wednesday Jun 6th, 2007 03:49 AM |
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Bob46 wrote: After seeing flaggerinthree's picture of Art Boulainne's #18, I must have been just to the right taking pictures at the same time. See the #18 in the background of my picture.
The gentleman in the Tipke roadster is Elton (Ed) Patterson. Patterson Farms was a large sod farm in Prince George, B.C. Ed was quite a guy. He's 60 plus years old in this photo - came to the northwest from Minnesota and raced cageless sprinters in the midwest when he was a young man. I remember him telling me stories about "Itch" and "Scratch" Daniels and a few other famous old racers he knew. He raced this car and before it a Levy Jones sprint car out of Prince George for a few years in the 70's. The guy could work like a dog 12 hours a day humping rolls of sod onto his truck by hand and then work on his car for 4 or 5 hours at night. I think he went broke three or four times while I knew him. He really loved racing and thought nothing of loading up his stuff and hauling it off to Portland at midnight all by himself. I miss him.
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Posted: Sunday Jun 10th, 2007 05:03 AM |
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| Cool post, thanks for the info about Ed. That's what makes these forums so cool for me... I took a picture around 30 years ago of a guy I knew nothing about other than he drove a race car. All these years later, I kind of feel like I know what he was all about. Last edited on Sunday Jun 10th, 2007 05:03 AM by Bob46
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Posted: Sunday Jun 10th, 2007 06:54 AM |
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Here's a photo scanned from microfilm from the Prince George Citizen newspaper. (All that to say it's not very good.) The newspaper says it's Butch Fuller in the no. 50 and Ed Patterson, both spinning out at PGARA speedway in 1972.
There was a series of races held at PG and Quesnel for the supermodifieds from Sep. 15-17, 1972. Believe the races were CAMRA points paying races. In any event they were promoted by Ralph Monhay. Top ten at the end of the weekend were (name, number, city, points):
Bob Gregg, 21, Spokane (it says here?), 345
Brian Green (hey, hey), 28, Prince George, 213
Butch Fuller, 50, Everett, 100 (?)
Gerry McLees, 7, Seattle, 184
Doug Larson, 2, Quesnel, 161
Frank Weiss, 96, Calgary, 137
John Carroll, 36, Stanwood, 125
Larry Avery, 72, Edmonton, 109
Wayne Desabrais, 19, Calgary, 93
Ed Patterson and Cliff Hucul, 24, Prince George, 83
The sports reports from PG in the 1970s are great due to the arrival of a guy named Ron Allerton from the Kelowna area. He had covered Billy Foster Memorial Speedway in Westbank, BC for the Kelowna Courier for the years it existed and then Tillicum Raceway in Vernon before moving north. I've only looked at 1972 and 73 from that decade (and 1951 through 1967 from the earlier years) but want to get back to the university where the microfilm is stashed. Great information from a reporter who seemed to care. Driver Al Belanger mentioned his name to me a few years back when Al came south to be a part of the Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society adding Ralph Monhay to the list of Pioneers.
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briangrn
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Posted: Monday Jun 11th, 2007 10:11 PM |
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Digney in Burnaby wrote: Here's a photo scanned from microfilm from the Prince George Citizen newspaper. (All that to say it's not very good.) The newspaper says it's Butch Fuller in the no. 50 and Ed Patterson, both spinning out at PGARA speedway in 1972.
There was a series of races held at PG and Quesnel for the supermodifieds from Sep. 15-17, 1972. Believe the races were CAMRA points paying races. In any event they were promoted by Ralph Monhay. Top ten at the end of the weekend were (name, number, city, points):
Bob Gregg, 21, Spokane (it says here?), 345
Brian Green (hey, hey), 28, Prince George, 213
Butch Fuller, 50, Everett, 100 (?)
Gerry McLees, 7, Seattle, 184
Doug Larson, 2, Quesnel, 161
Frank Weiss, 96, Calgary, 137
John Carroll, 36, Stanwood, 125
Larry Avery, 72, Edmonton, 109
Wayne Desabrais, 19, Calgary, 93
Ed Patterson and Cliff Hucul, 24, Prince George, 83
The sports reports from PG in the 1970s are great due to the arrival of a guy named Ron Allerton from the Kelowna area. He had covered Billy Foster Memorial Speedway in Westbank, BC for the Kelowna Courier for the years it existed and then Tillicum Raceway in Vernon before moving north. I've only looked at 1972 and 73 from that decade (and 1951 through 1967 from the earlier years) but want to get back to the university where the microfilm is stashed. Great information from a reporter who seemed to care. Driver Al Belanger mentioned his name to me a few years back when Al came south to be a part of the Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society adding Ralph Monhay to the list of Pioneers. I remember that weekend pretty well. That dirty rat McLees beat me by a foot for the win in the main in PG. LOL Bob Gregg was 3rd. Gerry started from the pole and Gregg and I came from row 7 or 8 (CAMRA inverted starts). It was a lot of fun. Racin' Ralph and a local guy named John McMullen did a good job - I think there were about 25 cars and P.G. is a long tow from anywhere. Ron Allerton was a huge racing fan and did a great job helping us out in the local paper. His nickname was "Big Blue" - his entire wardrobe seemed to be blue, his car was blue - we rode him pretty hard about it. Belanger's nickname was "Uncle Al - the Kiddies' Pal". He's a character, too - when you visited him at his shop, he made you instant coffee with hot tapwater! Prince George, Quesnel and Williams Lake had a very competitive supermod tri-city thing going for years and sent quite a few good cars to CAMRA events down south. The car old Ed is spinning in is the Levy Jones sprinter he ran before he got the Tipke roadster referred to above. The Jones car (it was a bad handling piece that several people tried to sort out) was also driven by Cliff Hucul before he drove Art Boulianne's roadster. "Artur Macartur from Port Artur" Boulianne deserves a few chapters all his own. I will deliver the goods on this wildman another time.
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Posted: Tuesday Jun 12th, 2007 09:26 AM |
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Digney, you don't EVER have to apologize for the quality of photos you post! The few brain cells us oldtimers still posess can fully make up for a few lost pixels in the photos!
Thank you for taking the time, expending the energy, to help some of us relive our glory days! You are a gem!
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Posted: Monday Dec 1st, 2008 04:31 AM |
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| Wow this car is totally awesome, Bring back the early supermodified days please.
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Posted: Friday Dec 19th, 2008 06:05 PM |
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| So who was the inside driver?
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