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Great Stuff Dennis !!!
Keep the history coming !!!
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Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks
Looking for photos/nformation on Bruce Warren
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Hey Dave , Here is the short write-up I did on the 1964 Ray Platte Memorial that I posted right here on RacersReunion on Oct 13,2010 along with the full field race results. A lot of the race results from the Modified-Sportsman division posted on the Ultimate Race Results site was copied from RacerReunion, or my website (Carolina Race Place). If you do a search right here you'll find a lot of full field results I've posted. ... Jack(as posted here Oct 13th, 2010)The 2nd annual Ray Platte Memorial Modified- Sportsman race was held at the 4/10 mile dirt Langley Speedway on October 25th, 1964. Forty-Four cars were in the pits attempting to qualify for the 40 starting spots in the 200 lap event. Sonny Hutchins of Richmond, VA turned the fastest lap at 20.83 seconds to win the number one starting spot. Doug Yates on Chapel Hill, NC driving the #1va was able to secure the outside front row starting position. Lap leaders were Sonny Hutchins, Ted Hairfield, Earl Moss, and Ray Hendrick. Hairfield was able to lead on 3 different occasions including the final 73 laps. Lil Bud Moore from Charleston, SC was able to work his way through the field getting as high as 3rd from a starting spot near the rear of the field before his steering locked up. Hairfield and McGinnis went the entire distance without a pit stop. There were 2 red flags, and 3 caution flags in the event. Hairfield won $1000 for the victory before a crowd of 5000 fans. http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/photo/langley-results-oct-251964
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Joe - Does your wife's grandfather have any photos of the Hussey Motors car, or anything from Coastal Speedway ? Would your grandfather be Richard Hussey ?
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That's it Jim. Oct 9th, 1955
I've been trying to get the complete finishing order for Pete, but so far only the top 15.
But, As of yesterday, I now have the full field starting line up with car numbers. I'll be giving a copy of this to Pete at Lakeview July 7th.
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Jim in 1954 the Feb. 19 race was only for Sportsman cars, but the Feb. 20th race was for both Sportsman, and Modified cars(in the same race). But, this still doesn't help finding out who might have driven the #37. I'll keep searching, asI know you will too.
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By the way - I was just able to confirm this week (with the help of Ed Duncan) that Larry Flynn did indeed drive the #14 with Ray Fox power to a 2nd place finish at Langhorne in 1955.
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Bill -
That would be great ! I talked to Ray last summer, and wanted to ask him a question which I forgot about at the time. I think Larry Flynn was driving his own car (#14) at Langhorne in 1955 when he finished 2nd, but never have been able to confirm that. If so, it probably had a Ray Fox engine. I wonder if Ray remembers anything about that?
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Oh no, just wanted you to know. Just about all the photos he has posted there about Larry came from my site(photo Pit #1). Larry was a great driver, and raced out of Myrtle Beach in 1955,56,and 57.
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Dave - Actually that shot originally came from my website (Carolina Race Place). I scanned it from the newspaper several years ago and has been on my website ever since then. It was copied to Legends of Nascar along with some other Larry Flynn stuff 3 or 4 years ago.