Not What You Ever Want to Find
Stock Car Racing History
I'm not finding any mention of racing in Mr. Clutterham's bios/obits, but I'm still guessing that the Mr. Clutteham from Soldier Field was a Chicago area Clutterham.
I'm not finding any mention of racing in Mr. Clutterham's bios/obits, but I'm still guessing that the Mr. Clutteham from Soldier Field was a Chicago area Clutterham.
I'm going to jump in the deep end and make some wild guesses about "Mr. Clutteham" from the Soldier Field race.
Clutte R ham was a common name around the Chicago area.
A Bob Clutterham is shown not making the field for a 1958 combined USAC/ARCA stock car race at Milwaukee won by Fred Lorenzen with Tiger Tom Pistone 2nd.
My guess is that Bob Clutterham at the 1958 Milwaukee race is also Mr. Clutteham at the 1957 Soldier Field race.
Further, there was at the time, a professor at the University of Illinois - Champaign named David Robert "Bob" Clutterham who authored a book titled "Interaction of Curved Shocks" during the same time frame as those Chicago and Milwaukee stock car races.
I wonder if the book author is also our Mr. Clutteham from Soldier Field and Bob Clutterham from Milwaukee?
If these fellows are one and the same, it appears that David Robert "Bob" Clutterham wound up down in your neck of the woods where he passed in 2009.
Allen Swenson was another "real" driver. My first search uncovered a 1999 obituary story in the Chicago Tribune.
As late as June 24, 1967, Clyde Swick was fielding a car at Macon (Illinois) Speedway, according to what I can glean from some abbreviated copy in that day's edition of the Decatur (IL) Herald on page 13. Not planning to pay for opening the paper, but maybe this will give you a lead:
Here are obits for Clyde Swick suggesting memorial donations to Victory Junction Gang Camp:
Watched Bob Derrington score a 5th place finish at Richmond in March 1965, one position behind Crawfish Crider, though Bob was 13 laps behind winner, Junior Johnson. Bob started over 50 races in 1965. Guys like him made the show.
Way off base, partner - but, then, Perry's neighbor & friend, Bud Moore fought to defend your right to share those thoughts..
I have to concur, Perry. I grew up in Richmond, "Capital of the Confederacy" - but we had better sense than to fly the Confederate flag from Thomas Jefferson's statehouse there. Heritage is a wonderful thing, but I just don't get the idea of flying that flag on a state capital's grounds. By the way, I once sported the stars & bars on the front of my '57 Chevy, below my Virginia tag and I'm a pretty competent student of southern history. I've just seen way too much mixing of apples & oranges during the whole debate.
The Daytona paper, as expected, didn't give much pre-race coverage to the Paul Revere event, but it did carry these pieces:
As usual, there were plenty of other motorsports activities going on the Daytona area surrounding the July 4th holiday. Here are several ads from the Daytona paper:
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal carried the AP Wirephoto below of Tiny Lund getting in his Paul Revere ride for a practice session:
Spartanburg's Gene Granger filed this Paul Revere 250 race report for the Herald-Journal:
Terrific personal memory, Dennis, to really bring your great report to life.