mfbarnes

Yeah, it's sad indeed.

Jim, Larry and Randy, look at that track real close, now look at that track behind the school. That's a 440 yard track and field track, that I am pretty sure is a measured distance if they run track and field distances.

Now look at Meyers, that is suppose to be a 1/2 mile, sure looks longer to me, could be the reason I always seemed to run out of gear on the straightaways there. Bill White used to always tell me to gear long, and I usually did so, but if you geared for a normal 1/2 mile I always seemed to be floating the valves before the end of the straight. Did anybody bother to actually measure that 1/2 mile?

Going to scale in the picture, it looks closer to 7 tenths, if it was a 1/2 you had to be riding the bottom all the way around.

Right you are Larry

Somebody in one of these Meyers threads asked about this Bronco, can't for the life of me remember who asked, but here it is.

Was that the joint there by the drive-in @ Telephone and Winkler? If so been there many a time.

Still diggin through photos, bear with me............

[resized by Nick Holt, 6/27/08]

No wing but it's Munson and it's Orange looking.

Close up

The Piggly Wiggly Special

Team work

There was a car owner that I has not been mentioned and that is Poncho Locklin [sp] I believe that ronnie chumley drove for him.He had a wrecking yard or a garage in Pasadena.I also remember a white modified that ran at Meyer only other thing that I remember about that car it was sponsored by Frizzel a car dealership in Houston.

Ask and ye shall receive

Here's one of Pancho's cars I think Bill Blumrick Drove

This may be one you are looking for

And this is a Pancho Car Jackie Woosley drove I'm pretty sure called it the "Batmobile"

That's the one and only Pancho Locklin in the Orchid colored shirt and the Hat way before Jack Roush made it cool.

Here's a better picture of the Blue Trey

And by the way it's for sale contact davidtom@att.net

A gut named Joe Henke owns one of the Pontiacs that HB drove in Nascar, I saw it at a carshow a few years ago. I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll have to dig around.

Check this video out, just found it amazing.

Lee also drove a Mod Stock #35, I will dig up some pictures of it somewhere. I have some other boxes still to go through. That #35 was owned by Frank and SJ Wells out of Old Ocean, TX I am pretty sure.

Talk to Lee Cade all the time. He hangs out on Lake Fork sometimes, travels in his motor-home still trying to sniff fumes, at racetracks. He turns 81 June 8th, his legal residence is the Escapees RV park up in Livingston, but he's all around most of the time. Known Lee for 50 years, raced all over the country with him, not a better friend in the world. I bought Him a 30 lap deal at Texas Motor Speedway for his 80th birthday, and you know that old fart tried to go out and qualify that thing. He stayed on the chip most of the time. instructors on the radio kept jumping his ass about his speed, hell he's about deaf anyway, so he never backed off. We had a great time that day. Hot laps and Hooters Girls, for two ole Buddy's way past their prime. Our wives went to the mall and got even though, oh what the hell, can't take it with you.....

Full Time ASCS, Kent will race till his last breath. He came by my shop today to pickup an extra fuel pump, and to drop off some heads to be re-worked. Kent knows nothing else but racing, we got him a blue WalMart smock (with a name tag and all) and a roll of smiley sticks as a gag gift last year. He wore it in the pits all weekend. He's still the same ole Kent, never a dull moment. Still very competitive on track also.

All those wondering about Kent Lewis Sr. Here is a recent photo of ole Kent.

Welcome Tim, all photos videos whatever are very welcome. I got you email this moring just hadn't got around to answering it yet. Been busy in the shop building motors story of my life. If you need anything feel free to ask.

Larry,

If you watch the close up on the Red Mod Stock with no number, it looks like MJ behind the wheel, or atleast it's someone that sets in the seat and has the same lean as MJ. It's hard to tell. There are some film clips that appear to be the same day that almost appear to be a test and tune, just making some laps. Just wish we had the original film and not a bunch of pieces. But I think the ARCA is definately '66, that the year Iggy ran that Plymouth, he ran a Ford in '65. He switched over to Plymouth at Clark County Speedway in May of '65, that was after the Meyers race that year.

Larry,

Those things are so edited up, the Tape that was given to me came with a box of slides, and some 8mm film reels that I am trying to get transferred to DVD. I wish I had Mack's original stuff because that would be the thing to have. No one seems to know what happened to them, I was told they may have perished in a fire when a garage burned down in Lake Charles. Don't really know for sure. Some of those things are from Daytime shots are from '66 and 65, and were poorly edited. I am just delivering them as I got them, it's just good to have some footage. I have some footage of racing that all of a sudden breaks into some young kids birthday party, and he's blowing out candle's. I just wish I could get my hands on the archive that HMP has. I can't understand, other than it's a pain in the butt and not cheap, why someone over there hasn't put together a DVD or something. All the Big Shows that were put on at Meyers and Big H, it could fill volumes. I've gotten to old and fat to get in a sprint car anymore, of course age it's everything, my good friend Kent Lewis still runs ASCS every weekend. Me I am too busy fixing what the kids tear up. Oh well it makes me happy, but these grand kids are something to watch. I have a 13 year old grandson in Minis and a 15 year old granddaughter in 360's and SST's. I work harder now retired than I did when I was young.

Now the night race I can talk about, the film is not in it's entirety, but it is what it is. It came from 1973 and was shot in B&W 8mm. There were actually two #2's that night and two #7's. This was really nice big show put on at Meyers in 1973. Lap times were fast fast.

The three USAC cars you see are Bill, me and Lee Cade. Lee was in the #2 Sprinter and Myself in the #5 and the #7 was Wild Bill. Bill was having serious injector problems, and never had the car at full song, T-Bird or someone has a picture of Bill sitting in the car floating around somewhere. But even with a car starving for methanol, Bill was all over us. If he would have had all his ponies working, we would have been in real trouble. Lee is suppose to be digging out a bunch of 8mm stuff from our cultured past, the majority of it is USAC stuff in the Midwest, but quite a bit will be from Texas, and a lot of Devil's Bowl stuff. I sat down last February (2007) to try and start sorting this stuff out and it turned out to be a lot more than I thought it would be. I ended up buying a slide scanner, that works really nice, but got burned on an 8mm film converter, (not worth a crap), so I am farming it out by the inch (literally they charge by the inch). eventually I hope to have a nice finished product on DVD. Working on getting together some Moody and Clarey stuff too. My Dad passed away a year ago this month and I am still digging through a lot of his stuff too.

This is some of what's left of those days. Excuse the mess, I am supporting three sprint cars this year and some local boys that just need help, and my shop is a disaster area. I swear I am cleaning it today.

The whole thing was a real fix for us, we were so light and overpowered, the true supers were at a disadvantage. The power to weight ratio was a huge gap.

The #2 true Super Mod was Tony Walters

The #22 sled was Hugh Richards (I'm pretty sure Clay Reeves owned that car)

The #31 Mod Stock was Jimmy McKenzie

The #92 was Dub Rollins I'm pretty sure. (Dub was actually from Corpus)

The #7 Super I think was Jim Gresley

The #6 Super was Billy Perrin I'm pretty sure.

Don't know who the #92 Mod Stock was

Super #11 Jimmy Griggs out of Mobile

I also will be uploading some clips from Almeda, and as I said Moody and Clarey, and several other dirt tracks.

I'd like to see some of these fickled NASCAR driver strap up and get in one of these Modifieds and make a 100 laps at Joe Meyers Place. No power steering, very little suspension, they'd be no coil binding and bump stops here boys. Their might be a couple that could hang. I say Ryan Newman drive 400 laps at Bristol w/o power steering, that was a feat in itself. Oh well Meyers was the place to be.

Yep that's Sonny in the 44 Meatball Modified

Ronnie Chumley in the #16 Modified

Cowboy Johnson in the #33 Modified

Billy Griswald in the #9 Modified

Jackie Woosly in the Batmobile #4 Modified

Charlie Schilds in the #1 Modified

Bill Brumley in the #7 Modified

"Galveston Gambler" Joe Plowman in the #28 Modified

Don Stoddar in the # 57 Modified

Bill Brumley in the #7 Modified

Blackie Lothinger in the #75 Modified

not sure about the #22 Modified

Could have been Mike in the #24 Bronco.

Okay here's a night race for you to strain your eyes on.

Okay here we got Jim putting on a driving clinic, you folks in the infield might want to back up some!

Man this uploading takes forever, but here you go with another

Stick around Jim I got some uploading with some of your more creative driving styles in it.....

Actually I did some digging and it's 3-27-66 #30 Iggy Katona won the race. Please don't kill the messenger. I just dig the video.

http://hscr.topcities.com/ARCA/1966ARCAIndex.htm

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