CATAMOUNT COMPETITORS

Beaver Dragon [second from left] Rodney Weed [far right] and others look over a Camaro set up for crew chief Steve Poulin to drive in a SCC race.

When things just started to be falling into place, Catamount experienced a radical change when NASCAR pulled out after failing to see eye to eye with Tom Curley. As the Northern NASCAR pulled out, taking with it the familiar metal - bodied late models that had scored such a hit for years, Catamount and its sister tracks had to replace the cars and the several top name drivers that remained loyal to Daytona and went away with the sanctioning body and its cars.

What was found as a replacement was the ASA - style partially - fiberglass bodied Pony cars - most particularly Camaros. Those late model teams that had chosen to stay with Curley and Catamount found themselves having to sell off their NASCAR - legal equipment and re-fit themselves with the smaller cars tht had been made famous by builders like Ed Howe and drivers like Butch Miller. A few teams came in to take the places of the departed Bob Dragons, Stub Faddens, and others, but some of the magic was gone.

Curley had managed to retain the lions' share of his stars: Beaver Dragon, Robbie Crouch, Claude LeClerc, Jean-Paul Cabana, Dave Dion [part-time], Gardiner Leavitt, Jamie Aube, Kevin Lepage and the E.J. Prescott team, and more. They would be supplemented with a few drivers from Maine, and Paul Richardson and Jack Bateman, from Massachusetts. Towards the end of Catamount's history, the door would be open. In it, would come teams such as Junior Hanley and Russ Urlin; out, would go Crouch, Aube, Dion, and Barney McRae. Sadly, the last track record for the fastest lap would belong to Urlin, an unfamiliar invader from Ontario.

MAIN COMPETITORS PAGE	Pascal "Magnum" Site ACT Promo Sheet for 1986 Pascal "Magnum"Site ACT cars line up at Autodrome Ste. Felicienne	Dragon Family Photo Beaver Dragon Milton, VT Dragon Family Photoe One of Beaver Dragon's cars - lettered here for crew chief Steve Poulin.	SOSCAR Site Photo Russ Urlin Ontario Mike Cain Photo After setting Catamount's final record lap speed record	Mike Cain Photo Jamie Aube leads Cabana and Crouch at Catamount around 1986.
COUPES ERA	Mike Cain Photo Barney McRae leads Beaver at Catamount in 1986.	Pascal "Magnum"Site Jean-Paul Cabana, Beloeil, QU Winner of last race at Catamount with this car. Andy Boright Photos	Mike Cain Photos Robbie Crouch, Georgia, VT Mike Cain Photo	Mike Cain Photo Kevin Lepage, Shelburne, VT
EARLY FLYING TIGERS	Mike Cain Photo 66 Mike Weeden, 22 Tom Quinney	Mike Cain Photo Milt Wright, Hardwick, VT	Mike Cain Photo Paul Richardson, Ogunquit, ME	Mike Cain Photo Ralph Nason, Newburgh, ME
LIMITED SPORTSMAN	Mike Cain Photo Ricky Craven, Newburgh, ME	ACT Photo Roger LaPerle, Ste. Eustache, QU	Mike Cain Photo Ken Squier and Tom Curley hold a drivers' meeting	Alan Ward Photo Anyone know these two ?
HURRICANES	Andy Boright Photo Ralph Nason, Newburgh, ME	Andy Boright Photo Dave Dion, Hudson, NH	Andy Boright Photo Andre Beaudoin, Quebec City, QU	ACT Site Photo Bub Bilodeau, Maine
LATE MODEL SPORTSMAN Early Later	MrChevyBlack Web Site Photo Who's this ?	Outside Groove Photo Daniel Wolfe, Quebec	Outside Groove Photo Lucien Rocheleau, Quebec	Christina "Ti-Gaz" Genest Photo Claude LeClerc, Repentigny, Quebec
MINI STOCKS	Outside Groove Photo Jack Bateman,
GRAND AMERICANS	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Mike Cain Photo Steve Grissom, ALL PRO Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Mike Cain Photo Mike Eddy, ASA Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION M. Martin Site Photo Mark Martin, ASA Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Mike Dannic Photo Harold Fair, ASA Star
STREET STOCKS	STOCK CAR CONNECTION MrChevyBlack Web Site Photo Neil Bonnett, Hueytown, Ala ALL PRO Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION MrChevyBlack Web Site Photo Rusty Wallace, St. Louis, MO ASA Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Photo Source Unknown Billy Bigley, may have represented ALL PRO in the SCC at the beginning of his career	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Photo Source Unknown Butch Miller, ASA Star
ACT CARS	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Photo by Rick Kimball Bob Senneker, ASA Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Chasin' Racin' Photo Bobby Gill, ALL PRO Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Mr. Chevy Black Site Bobby Dotter, ASA Star	STOCK CAR CONNECTION Unknown Source Unknown, unless it's Urlin
NEW TIGERS
LIMITED SPORTSMAN 2ND ERA 1976

Magnum Website Photo
Jamie Aube [41] tries his luck in the GASSC race at Sanair.

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