Winged Warriors - Michigan 06/70
Winged Warriors - Michigan 06/70
Even that Olds 88 is beautiful if for no other reason that I one can ID it as an Olds 88 in a second without having to look at the decals.
BTW, the street Olds 88 and Buick LeSabres with the 3800 V-6 engines were bad fast cars.
The Ayn Rand of Indycar
No one had to badge the Offy.
#99 Chargin' Charlie Glotzbach!
How about these big old Olds!
Scott Stovall. ARCA 1982
Bob Brevak. ARCA 1983
Bob Dotter. ARCA 1982
Marvin Smith. ARCA 1983. This car is in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame & Museum at Talladega.
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Keith Koether http://www.kkraceshots.com
Ex ARCA, ASA and local bullring crewdog. I remember when racing was really racing and the Talladega Express!!!
It's gorgeous.Originally Posted by DaveL
The fans should be the absolute last people considered on any decision that could effect a participant. Doc Austin
Lying was a no-brainer for me. Robin Miller
"I thought they booed [Danica] because she was being a complete jerk, but then they applauded for A.J. Foyt. Now I'm just confused."
That Cutlass #0 is stunning.
That Cutlass body remains my favorite body style.
Scott's cars were always good looking. I forgot that car is in the Museum at Talladega also. Last I heard Scott is flagging at Baer Field Speedway in Ft. Wayne, IN
I love photos from Daytona made early the first weekend before the contingency decals are applied.
Looks like you and I were on opposite side of the fence in 1983.
These were some of my favorite racecars! I was too young to see them in person but I remember seeing them on TV!
Spectacular photos Calhoun.
The driver of the #53 was none other than Tom Sneva. That #57 is in M.C. Anderson Valvoline colors. Obviously they didn't re-paint the car after they bought it. The #73 Pontiac looks nasty. It has "DNQ" written all over it.
Sure were!!! If that's the Clash lineup then that's Cale Yarborough in AJ's car for the Clash and Ricky Rudd in Bud Moore's #15 before he wadded it up coming into the tri-oval. As you can see I was a couple of stalls up pit road from Tim Richmond's pit for the Clash. If that's qualifing I could be anywhere. EDIT. Did it again and got my years screwed up. That's Dale in the 15. Ricky and Dale switched teams in 1984. GOOD GRIEF this getting old SUCKS!I love photos from Daytona made early the first weekend before the contingency decals are applied.
Looks like you and I were on opposite side of the fence in 1983.
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Here's Cale in M.C. Andersons car in 1982.
It's either practice or quals. There are cars mixed in that never would have been in the Clash.
Your right. There are a few ARCA cars mixed in there on top of a few Winston Cup cars that never made a Clash.
I made the switch from film to digital in 2006 after shooting ~20 rolls of film at Bonneville Speed Weeks. Like you, now it's not uncommon to shoot 1000+ shots at an event. My favorite right now is the Reno Air Races.Soooooo......... How many of us wish you could have had a nice digital camera back then.I know I sure do! These days I will take north of 1000 pictures on a race weekend with my dSLR versus film! These days it's mostly race boats.
There's one ARCA car in the shot of the Hoss Ellington #1, the rest are all Cup cars. You'll notice Cale's #28 is lined up ahead of that awful looking #73 Pontiac. If Cale hasn't wrecked the car yet, then the cars must have been lined up for either practice or quals.Your right. There are a few ARCA cars mixed in there on top of a few Winston Cup cars that never made a Clash.
Reno! Now that's definitely on the Bucket List!
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The photos were taken Saturday during practice.
If you'll notice the #50 on the right side of the third photo, this was the last day for those colors. Overnight, the 50s were peeled off and the #88 and Gatorade decals were applied. That's Geoffrey Bodine in the Cliff Stewart car.
Then of course Sunday it rained and Quals, Clash, and ARCA all happened Monday.
Steve Moore, started 26th and finished 31st in 1st qualifier, listed as out with Engine problems after 23 laps. DNQ for 500.awful looking #73 Pontiac
El Grillo Cantor
Thanks for jogging the memory. Now I remember having to call in sick for work because we raced on Monday. This was the year we hit a nasty snow storm in somewhere in Tennesee or southern Kentucky and it took us till Tuesday afternoon to get back to Dayton, OH. I climbed out of the motorhome and went straight to work. I worked 5:00PM TO 2:30AM in those days.
O/T @ Keith -
Since you were associated with ARCA, here's a little tidbit. The driver of our sprint car won the first ARCA (MARC) race ever held (Dayton, OH) and was ARCA (MARC) champion in its second year. His name was Buckie Sager.
Then these were taken on Monday.
I checked Moore's record. Looks like he mostly ran Daytona, Dega, and some of the other big tracks in whatever low buck hand me down the family could afford. I just wonder if they didn't make an effort to spruce up the car for qualifying and the 125, and make it look like a halfway professional effort.
Not quite the full DiGard Gatorade treatment, but as Calhoun points out it was an overnight conversion.
Great pics. Thanks to everyone who is contributing.
Roach
Check out this website. http://wthompson4.sports.officelive....ceresults.aspx Scroll down the page for ARCA / MARC stuff. If you have any pictures or info I'm sure Mickey would appriciate anything you could provide. Spent a LOT of Sundays at Dayton Speedway.
Ya, This was the year DiGard picked up Miller Beer as their sponsor. I need to dig through more of my old pictures because I should have a few of Bobby in the DiGard Miller car in 1983.
You already did. See post #33.
That was the year he demolished two cars before Tuesday afternoon. They had to scramble to get a third car down for the final practice before the 125s.
And I had forgot the details about the Gatorade car, but that is the aftermath of the quick conversion to Gatorade. Just the logo and numbers - no green stripes at all. Very cool pics.
A couple of other things I noticed about the '83 Daytona photos. Notice in mine there are two #27 Old Milwaukee cars. The Pontiac (that from the other pics they obviously ran in the Clash) and a Monte Carlo over against the wall in my first photo. And from my last photo you see an '83 'Bird for Dale. Then the ones from the Clash he's in the '82 Square Bird model. Lots of experimenting going on during practice Saturday!
Ya, if I remember correctly 83 was the first year with the new T-Bird and a lot of the drivers weren't real comfortable with the new body style yet. Most all the Ford teams brought the new and the old body style that year.
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