Full-Size Stock Car Racing Fan and Story Author of Germany

Dear Race Fans,

My name is Thomas F. Lutz and i m a stock car racing fan, model builder for stock cars in scale 1/24 and story author for the german homepage StockCar-News.de

All stories i ve mad are for historical themes like "Lost Tracks", "Woman in Stock Car Racing", "The Others" (that means stock car race organizations beside NASCAR, like AAA, ARCA/MARC, USAR, USAC a.s.o.)and to bring the german race fans informations in german language also for "The Underdogs" (Do anybody in Germany heard about Wayne Watercutter, Bill Schmitt or Slick Johnson ? - will be next story).

At your nice homepage are a lot of interesting pictures from drivers, cars and tracks with your copyrights from owners.

My question is: Can we copy some of your pictures for my historical stories ? At all pictures i will put in your copyrights and link to your site, in case of your copyrights.

Stockcar-news is officially accredited by NASCAR and in cooperation with Servus TV (shows Sprint Cup races in european TV).

And any time when a story is publicated i will transmit the link to you for controls.

par example this is the 1st story from "The Lost Tracks Series" about the
Occoneechee Speedway, look at this:

http://www.stockcar-news.de/index.php/historische-rennstrecken/66-occoneechee-speedway.html

or look at:

http://www.stockcar-news.de

Plannings next are:
Lost Tracks series for Riverside International Raceway, Trenton Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Islip Speedway, Ontario Speedway and North Wilkesboro Speedway

Woman in Stock Car Racing Series
Part 1 from 1949 - 1971
Part 2 1972 - 1985
Part 3 from 1986 on

Driver profiles:
Wayne Watercutter
Jimmy Insolo
Bill Schmitt
Slick Johnson

The Others:
AAA National Stock Car Series 1950 - 1955
ARCA/MARC Permatex/Bondo-Mar Hyde/Re-Max Series 1953 - 2012
ASA AC Delco Series 1968 - 2004
ASCAR/ SCSA Mintex Series 2001 - 2005
USAC National Series 1956 - 1984
USAR Hooters Pro Cup 1997 - 2012

I would be very delighted if we could present our stories with your great pictures inside.

If any questions please e me

Thomas F. Lutz
Otzberg, Germany 64853

PS: pardon me for my bad english language

In that way i ve lookin actually for pictures from:
Sara Christian
Louise Smith
Janet Guthrie
Patty Moise
Ethel Flock Mobley
Ann Chester
Ann Bunselmeyer
Goldie Parsons
Shawna Robinson
Tammy Jo Kirk
Kelly Sutton
Erin Crocker

Christi Passmore

Lella Lombardi

Christin Beckers

Deborah Renshaw

Kelly Williams

Sunny Hobbs

Robin McCall

Lost Tracks:
Riverside Raceway
North Wilksboro
Trenton
Islip Speedway
Ontario Speedway
Raleigh Speedway
Texas Motor Speedway

also next series "The Underdogs" pix from:
Wayne Watercutter
Jimmy Insolo
Bill Schmitt
Slick Johnson
Jocko Maggiacomo

and series "The Others" (full size stock series beside NASCAR) pix from races of:

AAA National Stock Car Series 1950 - 1955
ARCA/MARC Permatex/Bondo-Mar Hyde/Re-Max Series 1953 - 2012
ASA AC Delco Series 1968 - 2004
ASCAR/ SCSA Mintex Series 2001 - 2005
USAC National Series 1956 - 1984
USAR Hooters Pro Cup 1997 - 2012

all pictures published in stockcar-news will given with informations and copyrights to owners

If any questions please e me: Thomas.Lutz@gmx.com

updated by @thomas-f-lutz: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Thomas,

The best approach would be to find the photo you like and send a message (by posting a comment on the photo wall) to the person who posted it asking for permission to use. I think most will be OK...but you will need to ask themindividually.

Unlike facebook we do not take over the photo rights of photos posted on our site. We leave those rights with the person who owns the photo.

Good luck with your article....and always please post links to your new articles. I think it is awesome that you are providing Germany with American Stock Car racing history.

JEff

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Founder/Creator - RacersReunion®

Thomas, thanks for keeping the history of American Stock Car racing alive and educating the public. I have many photos that you can use in your publications, give me a name or a track and I'll try and help out. Too many times we people get too upset if a photo is used from 40 years ago, where there's no slide or negative to make duplicates, if the photo isn't reproduced it will eventually be lost forever, I'm not one of those people.ThanksJim

That is very kind of you, Jim! Thanks.

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Founder/Creator - RacersReunion®

Welcome to the site Thomas. Great to have international influence in our sport. I will look forward to reading your perspective.

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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.

Also mine are yours for using. Photos and stories are for sharing the past with our present and future. I have the same feeling as Jim Wilmore does. And you sir keep up the good work over there..--------------------------------memories

Thomas, Welcome. You will, perhaps, find a lot of assistance here. There are many knowledgeable folks here that are historians on all aspects of racing. You may be able to get some good information and ideas from us. One member that you should probably contact is bnorton734. That's Brian Norton, of Michigan. Brian is the ARCA Historian and is a wealth of information. Go to his page on this site and look at his many photos. Brian's a pretty good guy and always willing to talk racing.

While you are at it, go look at my page also. I have about six hundred photos there from the mid 1960's to around 1973. I took all of these shots during the years I worked at various short tracks in the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky area. By a minor miracle, I located the negatives for these photos about three years ago. I had thought them to be lost for some twenty years or so. I then went out and bought a photo scanner so I could share them with other race fans who remember the good racing from back then. I found Racer's Reunion and decided that this would be about the best place I could show off my photos to people I know appreciate them.

I see you are looking for information on "Waco" Wayne Wattercutter. I attached a couple of photos of his early cars, a few years before he began driving in ARCA.

If you would like to use either of these, let me know, and I will send you the JPEG file. To myknowledge neither has been published in the print media, but both have been shared on the internet, in this site and a couple of other vintage racing sites.

I also may have some photos of Insolo and Schmidt. They would be in color and would be from the mid 1970's. I do not have any of them scanned, but I will go looking through my color negatives to see if I can find anything. I have a few West Coast shots, as I moved to California in the mid 70's and left ARCA and the great short tracks of Ohio for the Winston West guys, and the great short tracks ofSouthernCalifornia and Arizona. (It's a long story....) Anyway welcome ! We're all looking forward to reading your articles.