txtom Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 This is a little different, not a Texas track, but a racer we all watched for several years. Any guesses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I'm going to make a wild guess... Clarence Lovell?? Nick Holt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted April 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Sorry Nick, and I'm gonna add another picture of another car this same driver campaigned. Hint on driver--most of the time we saw him, he had a different number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORSEPOWER Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Is it Freddy Fryar? I know your are a big fan of his just like I was when I was a youngster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted April 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 You got it horsepower. The first is a '55 chevy that I think was taken at Birmingham. The second is another car he ran over in the southeast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FryarFan Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 That's what I get for not checking in last night......beaten to the punch. The smile in the first one that gives it away as Freddy. It may be Birmingham, but it could also the Nashville with that overhang on the front stretch... txtom...where did ya find the pic?? I have seen it or something a lot like it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted April 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I knew Billy would recognize that smile! I don't think my scanner is very good, but here is another picture for ya'll-- A friend sent me the first two pics, and I'll try to find out where he got them. The Nova Pic is an old print I have laying around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORSEPOWER Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 I knew I had seen one of those pictures b4, I used the power of the internet. I found it at http://www.retrorockets.org/1/Volume38.htm, he also had a bro named Harold that was killed in a racing accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FryarFan Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Yeah, I had seen that mod on the retro site. If anyone has some time to surf there are a ton of good pics there of a lot of old cars and races. BTW, as the story goes, Harold was killed when a driveshaft came off another car and came into his. After that, drive shaft loops were then made mandatory in several places and sometimes were called the "Fryar loop". And so it goes............... Billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildRacer5 Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Tom, Was the last pic of the 14 car taken at Longhorn Speedway years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted April 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Yep- That is the old fencing at Longhorn.. Drove by Longhorn last week, hard to look at it in the condition it's sitting in right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildRacer5 Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Thanks Tom, I'd regonize that old fencing anywhere in any pic. It is sad about Longhorn. I grew up at that track. That is why I love racing today because I spent a lot of nights out there. The last I heard about Longhorn it will never be the same. It has sat so long that it has lost all it's grandfather clauses with the electrical and sewer and everything will have to be updated if it ever reopens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Robinson Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 Here a photo of Freddy in about 61or 62 you can find a few more at the Alabama Auto Racing Pioneers website Freddy raced alot in Alabama http://www.aarpinc.org/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter1t Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 Myer Speedway 74? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETrott Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Could be '74, but looks a year or two earlier. If the kid on the right can't tell you, the little guy on the left might know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter1t Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Could be '74, but looks a year or two earlier. If the kid on the right can't tell you, the little guy on the left might know. I had a picture of him holding me next to the same car that night. That dates it after May '73. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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