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This guy here was "dialed in." No one, and I mean no one could hang with this cat. He had it going on ALL of the time. He was a hard chargin' fool, but a clean racer. He and Paul Horelka, Tex Horn and Alvin Stewart dueled weekly at Austin in the hobby stock class. There's alot a of drivers who ought to feel damn lucky Pete never moved up to the Super Stock / Late Model class - otherwise, they'd see a whole bunch of his car's tail in their front glass......

 

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Does anyone know who this driver is? I can recall him being very patient, efficient and a clean driver. I never knew who he was but always pulled for him because I thought he had CLASS.......please advise.

 

 

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thank you 302 I am always looking for photo's of my grandfathers Frank Ferris and Buddy Woodall. This is a great picture of Frank's car with Jerry driving. I don't know if you remember but Frank built alot of the cars of the day he always said he liked a new one every year. Frank would have driven more but his eye sight wasn't the best for driving but it did not hender his chassis building ability. Just about every photo you find with a #19 with orange and white is his. If he would have made it though his cancer we were going to build a car for me to run dirt or asphalt we hadn't made our decision. but we never got that chance just wasn't part of the plan.

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Sorry to hear that Nathan. Frank had special talent. I know he and Leroy Brooks had collaborated on more than one instance. My brothers and I always loved to watch Jerry Stanley, Leroy Brooks and Cal Gustafson run the notorious #19. I dug up some more photos my brother and I collected over the years from Paramount, Speed-O-Rama and Pan Am. As you can see, a couple of the photos were taken using the old "instamatic" camera at Pan Am. Just a question for you, do you have any idea where the photo was taken of the 19 car at the dirt track? I'm certain the time frame was about May of 1976. I'll continue to post more photos for everyone to enjoy.....

 

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I am not for sure but I do know that they ran at Killeen, georgetown, and San antonio. my thought would be georgetown or san antonio but they could have made a trip somewhere else. I will show the picture to my mom to see if she remembers exactly where it was. But here is one of the same car and my grandpa woodall's car at killeen.

 

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Georgetown only ran a few years, maybe 75 to 77 or so. It is located at mile marker 268, on the Northbound side. The track was behind the building in relation to the Interstate.

 

In recent years, the place was a pecan selling place, with some antiques thrown in. Not sure if it is still in business, looked very run-down last time I went by it.

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drove by today I didn't see the car josh was talking about. I did turn down the little road right next to it and you clearly see the and how it is arched just like in the pictures. can't see the stands looks like they made it into a garage.

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I think the car Josh was talking about was a bit farther north, closer to Waco. It was definitely north of Temple. It was also on the northbound side of the road, and had a lot of old big signs, gas pumps, a few old cars, and such. Completely different than what was once the speedway.

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There still is not any back wall at killeen. back in those days if you went off the back it was a straight drop to rocks below. so you would usually need a wrecker to get back up. now they have made it into a smooth incline so you can go off the back and still make it back up. when we had the falcon here it still had the cage bent from going off the back.

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It's actually a cool idea. They've implemented the same concept at a dirt track in Ashland, Wi. The back stretch has no retaining wall, along with all four turns. The only "fence" is a concrete retaining wall on the front straight away to protect the fans (which also saves the cars and lots of money and work).

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I knew Frank very well in the days of Paromont Speedway. You may remember the name Leroy Farmer. If you've been around Austin racing, you have to know who he is. He's my first cousin, sometimes thats good and depending on how many cars he hit on the track, it could be a bad thing. Buddy was one of my favorites also. Oh, could I tell some stories about racing back then!! But, that's when racing was fun and wild. Fights in the pits and fights in the stands!!!!

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Right on MonaB. As far as I'm concerned, those were the best years of racing. I recall Leroy Farmer - a heck of a driver. I'm a huge Leroy fan myself (Leroy Brooks). I know both of them dearly loved racing - and I enjoyed watching them both. Do you have any old photos you can share here?

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I have hundreds. It's just getting them scanned in and put on a CD. It's going to take hours and hours. I have about 25 years of race car pictures to scan.

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The drivr of the #32 car is Pete Daughtery of Pflugerville, TX. He was a good fiend of my brothers and one of my favoerite drivers of that eime. Pete was a very good and clean driver and he always had a nice car. He ran with Calvin Gustafson way back when. Sure miss those days. Racing was racing back in those days.

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I think we went to the Georgetown track in the early 60s. Does that sound right? About that same time we raced at the Oahhill track near Austin. We were running Joe Frasiers 38 or 39 Ford coupe with a Ford Six. That thing ran well on dirt. later Joe took the same car and ran Austin with it. Lifetime ago but lots of fun................

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The driver of the #97 car was my cousin, Roger Jones. He raced at Austin Speedarama in the 70's. Some of ya'll might remember him from the wrecker business. He owned Austex Towing until his death in 1998.

Those were the good old days. I took up drag racing in 1984 and now my daughter took over the driving duties.

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I remember going to watch Roger as well as some of my dad's other friends like Bobby Murdoch, Alvin Stewart, Waldo Harper, Lee Roy Brooks, Mac's cars (Lee Machen) and many others , there were some legends back in those days

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