SO, THAT'S WHERE                
THAT CAR WENT !
RECYCLED RACE CARS

From LVC via Russ Blake

We can't do this with today's cars. Their fabricatred ability to replace sections of the and bodies easily means some cars last hrough seven owners . Ergo, most cars last this long now.

From Virginia Winne Decker Collection via C. Hertica A typical Johnny Flach photo from the early 1960's. HIs car was connected with the important Fred Searing racing stable.	From LVC via Russ Blake The Johnny Flach car is said to have nede up with Russ Blake.	Source Unknown Johnny Flach with young crew Stan Wetmore and Louie Searing. Their subsequent cars looked very similar to Flach's, adding to confusion in tracking them.	Ladabouche Collection The Lou Searing car at Fairmont circa 1964.	Ladabouche Collection The Stan Wetmore car at Fairmont circa 1964. It may have been the Flach car.	Source Unknown Someone has either a restored Flach car or an accurate tribute car.
Courtesy of Ron Hoffer Bob Hoffer's X9 cars had been coming off the Hoffer farm in Argyles, NY for a number of years.	Ladabouche Photo Bob is seen backing his final X9 into a pit area at the Vermont State Fair in 1962 .	Ladabouche Photo With Bob's unfortunate highway death, the car was sold to Irish Ed Kelly of Graville, NY in 1963 .	Ladabouche Photo Kelly did not keep the car long before selling it to Norm Scarborough and driver, Vince Quenneville, Sr. .	Visconti Family Photo When Scarborough and Quenneville parted ways, the car went to Art Visconi - also of Granville - iin 1964 .	Ladabouche Collection Visconti, in action in 1964 . The may be still lying over a bank - somewhere near Vergennes, VT.
Devil's Bowl Program Photo by Bob Frazer One of the best cars Will Cagle ever had was this sedan, built by Bob Rossell. Will, with the car in 1969 .	Courtesy of A. Ainsworth Apparently, Cagle had Butch Jelley drivew the car sometimes, particularly at the Valley.	Probably from A. Ainsworth Ken Tremont says that sedan was sold to Brandon, VT businessman Curt Prescott, who used Jelley as driver for a while .	Chuck ElyPhoto via Leb. Vall. Classics Apparently the last place the car went was to Arnold Fleury, who put veteran Bobby Leach in the car .	Chuck ElyPhoto via Leb. Vall. Classics Apparently the John Warren Constr. sedan, driven by Tom Corellis was often mistaken for the Rossell car, It was built by Willie Minor.	Probably from A. Ainsworth Ken Tremont says that he built two sedans jsut like the Rossell car - this one he kept for himself.
Ladabouche Collection Dexter Dorr came out of Manchester, VT already able to build nice cars. This, his first, added class to a very crude hobby division at Fairmont in 1964.	Ladabouche Collection He then sold that car to Bob Ames, of Proctor, VT [seen here as P59]. Ames struggled to drive it.	Ladabouche Collection When Rutland's Ralph Soulia was leading the VT State Hobby points in 1966, he wrecked his car. Ames offered the P59  to finish out what turned out to be a successful title chase.	Jerry King Collection Here Soulia [ctr] poses with Ames [rt] and mentor Jerry King as champion.
Ladabouche Collection Dexter Dorr came out of Manchester, VT already able to build nice cars. After this hobby, he decided to move a class in 1965.	Courtesy of Ted Vogel Sr and Jr. Dexter built this sportsman coupe for the 1966 season.	Ladabouche Photo This night time shot shows the final graphics.	Bob Frazer Photo via Cavalcade of Auto Racing Dexter Dorr .	Ladabouche Collection Dexter Dorr sold the car to Vince Quenneville, for the inaugural year at Devil's Bowl in 1967.	Bob Frazer Photo via Dev. Bowl Program Bob Harrison was the final owner of the car - around 1968 or 9 .
Ladabouche Photo Jean - Paul Cabana hauled into Catamount in 1972 with a 1964 Chevelle back up car. It was distinctive becasue it had a door post [and almost no one else used that body style].	Ladabouche Collection The distinctive body with door post is easily seen here .	Ladabouche Photo The Chevelle was sold to Jack Dubrul around 1972.	Dubrul sold the car to Brandon Uased Car dealer Austin Dickerman, who painted it trademark yellow and blue. There is no photo of this version.	Catamount Program Photo After a brief and frustrating time with the car. Dickerman sold it to Ray Richards and rookie driver Bob Ellis  They won the 1973 Northern NASCAR Rookie of the Year.	Courtesy of Andy Boright The car having been through four owners and thrrigors of the 1973 season, Richards eventually replaced the body.
Russ Bergh Photo via Herbert Family Coll. Hudson Falls' Henry Caputo began fielding red and white coupes in the late 1950's. Courtesy of Otto Graham	Russ Bergh Photo via Dave Dykes Around 1959, Caputo had a more modern coupe built for Ken Shoemaker.	Russ Bergh Photo via The Shoemaker Book The car's roof became a story unto itslef: flaps for the Valley, an antenna mount, and a brake light all adorned the roof before Henry was forced to sell out to Chris Drellos.	LadabouchePhoto The potent Shoemaker 111 as it looked in 1963 at Otter Creek Speedway . Ill, Drellos would sell oout after the season.	Russ Bergh Photo Ladabouche Collection This scene was frequent in 1963  The square flap cutouts are seen clearly here, a carryover from the Caputo era.	Courtesy of Conde & Parry Site The ended a long career owned by long - time car owner Frank Trinkhaus.
Courtesy of Warrensburgh Historical Society In the earlier days of Warrensburgh Speedway [or Ashland Park Speedway] the half of the list of participantswho weren't named Baker were likely named Duell. Vern Baker put together this potent Hudson for Wally LaBelle.	From Dan Ody's 8MM Old Speedways DVD's The Super 6 and Wally, at Whites Beach Speedway, a sort of sister track to Warrensburgh.	Courtesy of The Hackel Family This 1950's shot at Warrensburgh shows the car lined up last to go out to race. It wouldn't stay last long.	Ladabouche Photo Ten years later, Vern would reseurrect the car and put Athoi, NY's Ed Baker [no relation] in as driver.	Ladabouche Photo Two years later, the CVRA made Vern put fenders and a hood on it. It never looked quite right.	Ladabouche Collection Bob Frazer Photo FInally, around 1964 or 5, Vern salvaged the old 6 PAC and had a somewhat unsuccessful run with this crossfire Hudsoin Terraplane.
Bob Mackey Photo Bob Bruno Collection via john Rock Vic Wolfe built such great cars for Bob Bruno that everyone wanted to buy them. Even when all they had was a limited sportsman, Bruno could beat many of the full sportsman cars.	Courtesy of Gerard Major Prominent Canadian Frank Hodge was one of the first buyers.	Courtesy of Gerard Major The Frank Hodge car was to become his trademark Lucky 7, versions of which he drove for years.	Bob Mackey Photo Cavalcade of Auto Racing Wolfe friend Howard Healey bought one for Ernie Reid.   Bob Mackey Photo via John Rock The Healey 66A would become #70, driven by Reid and by Sapphire LeClaire [above].	Bob Mackey Photo Courtesy of John Rock One of Bud Besor's 50's was said also be a Wolfe car.	Bob Mackey Photo Courtesy of Mike Watts, Sr. Wolfe also pioneered the use of the GMC cabover hood on coupes. Jack Dubrul [above] bought that one. Most of the cars with this hoods didn't stay cool enough.
Ladabouche Photo Ray Lasnier, body man extraordinaire, fooled around racing  Hurricanes and the nifty but underfunded late model sportsman.	Bob Doy lePhoto Ladabouche Collection Then he built this sweet Firebird for Catamount's Grand American class. One of my all - time favorite lettering jobs I did on a car, too.	Ladabouche Photo Ray sooned tired of racing again and sold the car to Joe Myers. Again, I lettered it.	Unknown Photographer Catamount Program When Myers and Norm Andrews traded cars, Norm ended up running in the GA's and Myers went late model. [Car 4]	Courtesy of Kathy DeBoer The last owner of the car was Joey LaQuerre, who put a Camaro body on, The Speedway 51 owner still has the car in East Montpelier, supposedly.	Courtesy of Andy Boright It sure was a beauty !
Courtesy of Jo Towns via Otto Graham When Henry Caputo sold out to Chris Drellos, this 111 car of Ken Shoemaker was the best car,	Courtesy of Otto Graham Ultimately Drellos had that 111, the 111A [above] and another '37 Chevy, the 11. Ladabouche Photo	Courtesy of Conde & Parry Site When Drellos became ill, he sold the 111 tocar owner Frank Trinkhaus.	Ladabouche Collection Ernie Gahan bought the other 111, and it eventually became a 50NH, I would imagine.	Ladabouche Collection Cliff Barcomb bought the Corey 11 for pugnacious driver Buck Holliday.	John Grady Collection Holliday didn't do much to keep the car looking sharp, but it was fast.
Rogers Family Collection Butch Rogers learned welding from his racing father very well. Using his own ideas and some steering ideas from a Dex Dorr car, he came up with this innovative Camaro for Devil's Bowl.	Rogers Family Collection Butch would sell the unique car to friend and neighbor Charlie Brown, who ran it until it was irreparably wrecked.	Ladabouche Photo While he was a Rogers brother - in - law, Bruce Milo built a Camaro just like Butch's. [Above is a modified he built later. The Camaro was sold to Lee Nutting.	Ladabouche Photo Butch built a second Camaro a few years later. Racing was bothering injuries he had sustained in a  traffic accident. The Camaro was sold to Lee Nutting.	Source Unknown Reggie Lusiier built a second Camaro in the same manner as the Rogers cars. This shot is the only one I have of it [24].	Rogers Family Collection The Butch /Charlie Brown car still sits on the Brown farm; Reg still has his car; but I don't know about the 2nd Rogers Camaro or Milo's.

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