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Those are some awesome pics!

 

Jim Chapman

J.R. Hand

and the awesome Ford of Tommy Stanley

 

Is Jim Chapman still building cars out of Baytown?

 

I can remember watching that yellow Ford fly around Battleground and Big H.

 

 

I have some old Battleground pics I will post.

 

Post some more......

 

Some signatures from Battleground. I believe one special one is that of Ron Hughes whom was killed in a sprint car accident?

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The 22 sprint car was from the WOO when they came to Battleground...I think around 1989, The announcer said that the owner was an engineer and that was how a sprint car should be designed...Car was super cool....not the fastest...but I think that was due to lack of motor and driver. The 24 car was the magnificant mustang( built by chapman)...I have a few pic (not real good ones) of the blue mule too. Chapman race cars are still around...he did have a big driver..cant remember who right now...and I saw them at the thanksgiving STS race. I dont know when you got those autographs...but I had to be around somewhere...#6 troy phillips ran stock cars, but now works as a crew member for Bobby Hamilton jr. 42x Don morton now has a limited. AJ

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The 22 sprint car was from the WOO when they came to Battleground...I think around 1989, The announcer said that the owner was an engineer and that was how a sprint car should be designed...Car was super cool....not the fastest...but I think that was due to lack of motor and driver.

 

I think his name was Tommy Johnson, from the Dallas area, and your other info is correct.

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What car #....and who was the driver? The only ford drivers I remember were Phil Collida and Ed Kennedy (I am sure there were more) Those years were the only time I ever had a home track....lol

 

We bought the car later on and raced it as a stock car at battleground probably around 1996. It was a white car with green 97. I'll post a picture soon. We sold it to some guy in Willis who raced it in their stockcar class for a while. Dont know where it is now. It was a very solid car and had been rolled several times.

 

Also, I can think of one more Ford on dirt that was pretty fast. The number 9 of Dean Lyons was pretty quick and even won the championship in 1993? That was also a Chapman Car with another Kenneth Stanley Racing Engine.

 

We are actually going to race the asphalt modified series this year at HMP.

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Yes the 22 sprint looks like the car Tommy Johnson drove,I can't forget about how big the wing was,I think after that they put a max size limit on them.I thought he used to be a school teacher though,he may have changed jobs though. H used to have a roadster looking one years ago was low and flat looking like a thunder roadster.

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  • 9 years later...

Whoever posted the original post with the pics did not post the actual pics but rather posted a link to where the Dancers had them stored on their site. Now that they no longer have that URL, the links are no longer valid.

 

I wish they would post those pics for us, but this time upload the actual pics instead of posting a link.

 

Nick

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Saw that car a few times at the Devils Bowl in the 80s. Had a all aluminum big block and a funny car type dragster type steering wheel. Was a mid -pack rear of field car most of the time but every now and then they would hit on something and that thing would fly. Had a World of Outlaws race at the Bowl that was on the old Nashville Network show and the broadcasters were trying to come up with a name for it.

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