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RETrott, IRT to post #14, it was Buddy Pacluda (SP) who owned the #23 - their previous modified has been the #57 in which Bill Ferris had died in turn one - I actually remember all this because I had dated Buddy's daughter Barbara during this time and had seen the #23 in the garage of the family home many times during the racing season....

OK, all this recently posted stuff musta happened at Meyer after I left there in '73 'cause I don't recognize any of these cars, although the names in the clippings are very familiar... Any idea when these pictures were taken?

If you noticed on the #91 Ford that the "mechanic" is listed as "Tommy" on the front fender... We actually towed this car to Sam Houston High School and rebuilt the engine in the Auto mechanics shop, making a few modifications to the factory stock motor, then towed it back home to the north side of Houston to finish the engine details....somehow I sincerely doubt that too many other Meyer Speedway cars, or portions of them at least, were built in HISD facilities!!!! That "Late Model" series didn't last long, however, and by the end of July I went off the join the Navy so I missed the remainder of the '65 season at Meyer....

Tried this earlier and it didn't "take" so here goes again - trying to get back into this because it's been awhile - top photo is me, my "uncle" and my dad, with the short-lived "late model" season of 1965... Me and Louis Spurgeon, I believe 1968 - I was home on leave and "pitting" for Louis - gave me entrance to the pits... Long ago I had posted several photos of Billy Perran from early 1963 and SOMEONE on here said they believed they had a photo of his tweety-bird '37 Ford from 1962 somewhere, and I am still waiting patiently for that SOMEONE to please post it for everyone to see!!!!!

Today is a Butch day...I earlier posted 2 pics of Butch Biggs in his #77 Limited Sportsman, and now, Butch Harris in his modified something-or other Butch Harris car only, from 1971 And all these of Butch Ontrack from 1972 - Please don't ask me 40 years later why I have so many ontrack photos and not a single photo of Butch with the car!!! But I hope these will help....

Look what I found!!! Butch Biggs with his car and crew and one of just the car, I knew the name was familiar so I looked again...Hope these are what you are looking for...

the name is vaguely familiar but I don't seem to have any photos of Butch - Sorry, I am not sure why I don't - was he a full-time driver?

Sorry to be so late in replying, but I don't get on this site that often - I actually have some photos of Butch ontract at Meyer - I will scan them and try to get them posted tomorrow sometime....

the name sounds familiar - what did he drive?

all these photos look familiar to me, I wonder why?

Regarding post #715, those large photos look like there were scanned directly off my original 8X10's, nice to know some of them actually survived this long - again, has it really been 40 years?

Well, if you're looking for "New" pics you're out of luck, mine are all 40+ years old...damn, has it really been THAT long??

OK guys, I spend most of the summer at the hospital with my wife - she's doing well and back to work now - so I'm still trying to catch up on EVERYTHING around here. Getting almost done and will definately get back to posting soon...please hang in there!! C U Soon...

Hey, all those photos look familiar!!

OK people, I only went to 1 race, I think in 1968 at Moody/Clary Speedway in Navasota, so I'm certainly no expert on ANYTHING that ever happened there...however... I took this picture off the open wheel section of this site...other than the enlarged rear window, doesn't this car look like... this car of Jackie Woosley from 1964...the hood/grill combination, fashioned by Billy Perran, is too similar NOT to be the same car!!