Don't forget those portable Ferris wheels turning up at all the tracks... at Richmond, for instance, in an area where they tore down 45.000 seats in turn 3.
When my kids were young, they got to ride the Ferris wheel at the old amusement park next to Nashville's Fairgrounds Speedway BEFORE the race, not during it.
Mark, here's a poster currently adverised on ebay for one of my 1984 Wrangler jeans promotions at Catamount Stadium in Vermont and our NASCAR North race sponsorship there with Ken Squier.
Thanks. I did not attend those races and have never seen a photo. One of the best things to come out of that was every Christmas Ken Squier would send me a gallon container of pure maple syrup from one of his family businesses. The backstretch sign in the photo was adverising the 1982 Wrangler 100 at Catamount.
Thanks, Mark. I did some Wrangler poster giveaways and race sponsorships with Squier at the Vermont tracks in the early 80s.
Wrangler 100 NASCAR North races at Catamount 1982 and 1983 and Wrangler Round-Up 100 in 1984.
Wrangler 100
NASCARGrand National Northrace
Catamount Stadium ,Milton,VT
May 22, 1982
100laps on 0.333 mile paved oval;33.333 miles
Zervakis had a fleet of #01 cars as seen in the photo taken at the Zervakis Southside Glass Shop in Richmond and posted by son, Butch:
Mark Martin also ran a #01 Cup car for Zervakis in 1983 at Charlotte's World 600. Note the 7-Eleven and Bullfrog Knits decals on the rocker panel:
Zervakis was also the winning car owner for the Oxford 250 in the consecutive years of 1980-1981 with Geoff(rey) Bodine wheeling his "White Tornado."
That's Bodine below in the #99 Zervakis White Tornado passing Butch Lindley in #16 enroute to the 1980 Oxford 250 win. Ironically, when Bodine went Cup racing, Lindley would take over the Zervakis ride for a while. Richmond, Va. built and based cars were extremely successful in the Oxford 250 races.
One of the more famous Hoehns & Eanes engines put Sonny Hutchins in the Emanuel Zervakis #01 on the Martinsville Cup front row beside Richard Petty, who lost the battle to turn 1 against Sonny!
Vermont radio station owner and P.A. announcer, Ken Squier, along with his ownership / promoter status at Catamount Stadium and Thunder Road Speed Bowl, once had an ownership interest in the NASCAR North Series, just as Bob Barkheimer and Ken Clapp had an interest in Winston West and NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model. When Squier had a falling out with his NASCAR North chief, Tom Curley, Curley left to form the rival American Canadian Tour - ACT - to compete directly with Squier and NASCAR.
