txtom Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 A few pics from a crash in the Main event held on 22 July, 1978. Everyone will recognize the cars of #7 Hubert Bean and #11 Monte Nichols, but who knows the third, the one with the back end sheetmetal taken off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FryarFan Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Norm Blythe from Houston Billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted January 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Yup, I think 78 was the last year he raced here. Here are a few more pics from that night. Notice pic #4, where we can see old friend Herb Stelzig directing how they will get Nichol's car off the back of the Blythe car. Incidently, these photos were originally taken by Bob Cox of San Antonio. This night, Blythe won the first heat, Bean the second. Charlie Koen won the dash and the feature. In the last pic, you can see Bean running with some sheetmetal gone; both he and Nichols were able to patch their cars enough to run the main. But they both got caught up in another incident with Charles Evans which ended their night. That #50 car in the pic with Bean is Paul Gelpke of San Antonio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 In that same picture the guy in the forefront of the shot and the dude kinda standing on the LF tire... You Corpus folks should recognize these. Mel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted January 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Here is another crash sequence from two weeks before the one above. This is the #77 of Lou Rigey, who was from Victoria, and later Cibolo. He got there late, asked to hot lap before the heats, and this is the result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdaddy Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 That last sequence of pictures reminds me of a time here in CC when one of the Sullivan boys, (I can't remember if it was Scot or John) got sideways on the wall in turns 3-4 like that but came back down on all fours and kept going. I think he only lost one spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FryarFan Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 And how about a couple of faces there in the pic where you see Blythe's front end just pulled out of Bean's door and there is a wrecker in the background. Looks like good friend Len Hayden(who we lost just a couple of years ago, r.i.p.) over the top of Bean's decklid, and just to the left is car and track owner Don Bierschwale. I remember Hubert saying it wasn't very exciting feeling like Blythe's fan was right in his ear. And a little coincidence on the Rigey flip....if I remember right....that was the second #77 to get on his top in a very short time frame.....(txtom will correct this as I can never remember how it goes) ...it was either Dick Munday from Sealy....or Dick "can't remember" from Munday.....that went over on the front straight sometime right around this same time.....everybody started wondering if the double 7's were jinxed. Billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted January 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 That was Dick Mundee out of the North Houston area in the other 77. I think Mundee may have been in 79 or 80, but I am not sure. I will look around for some reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 That last sequence of pictures reminds me of a time here in CC when one of the Sullivan boys, (I can't remember if it was Scot or John) got sideways on the wall in turns 3-4 like that but came back down on all fours and kept going. I think he only lost one spot. scot ...scot also went though the bushes out of turn two at riverside ..we could hear his motor reving up and he came out in turn three ..lost aboult two spots ..lucky he didnt end up swimming in the oso .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted January 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 I'm thinking I know this guy......... This is not in 78, probably 81 or 82. Bubba Menard and his crew found a way to make a gear change a lot easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 I'm thinking I know this guy......... Bubba Menard and his crew found a way to make a gear change a lot easier. looks more like a spring change . keep the pics comeing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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