COXSACKIE SPEEDWAY

COXSACKIE SPEEDWAY
[Possibly Also Once Called Race Park Speedway]
Coxsackie, NY

Both Photos Courtesy of Dan Ody

The familiar turn one view that most people know Coxsackie from. Below - Another view.

Courtesy of Roger Ginder via Joe Grossetti

Courtesy of Joe Grossetti The great explanation on the shot from the photographer says it all. We need help with names on all 3 cars.	Courtesy of Joe Grossetti A rough and ready looking Carl Fink with the familiar 62Jr car.	Courtesy of Joe Grossetti For those who don't know - SNAFU was an acronym made up during WWII.You can pretty much figure what the FU stood for. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Chuck Bennett, Northeastern African American racing pioneer. He joins the likes of Johnny Kettel, Bo Green, and Bennie Myers.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Postcard shot of a car crashing in full view of the folks on the familiar t urn 1 banking at Coxsackie.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Opening day, 1952. A nice crowd on the bank. Maybe they had no stands,
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Opening day, 1952 winner Fred Searing. Maybe we now know why his son was named Lou. Good people.	Jack Meeker Photo via Joe Grossetti An aerial while the track is apparently still in operation.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti April, 1953 shot of wet conditions after what appears to have been a heat race.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 7 or possibly F7. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 11. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Driver gloves even !. We need help with driver name for this car.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 23. This guy has more photos of him than anyone else except maybe Spaulding or Garrison. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 23, with the whole damn gang. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 23 again. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 28 Bill Redner and crew. Any relation to Hoppy Redner?	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 38. At a distance, this car looks like a #38 Stretch Van Steenberg drove, but I am not convinced that is Stretch in the car. Looks like him. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 38. Not Stretch. Below - The SVS 38 at L. Valley. \| Courtesy of Arnie Ainsworth Same car - that's pretty obvious.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 334. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 117 getting win. This is not the Garrison 117. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 336. Someone named Carlson apparently involved here. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car F-7. Confident looking guy. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Carl Fink. Same shot except in black and white.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Cars in the pits. Definitely newer version of the 117. We need help with drivers name for these cars.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Great shot of a skirmish. We need help with drivers names for these cars.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 48 and lots of company. Don't know what's going on but it is a great shot. We need help with these names.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti I love this shot - might be the best one. I am surprised to see bleachers. Don't you love the "safer barriers ? Cement. We need help with drivers names for these cars.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Huck Spaulding, from Catskill. He drove ice racing cars until he was about 150.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Huck Spaulding again. Very professional - looking car.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Huck Spaulding again. Driving Jim Brush's 27 at Coxsackie. Sometimes George Welch drove it.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Great view of the pits.. We need help with drivers names for these cars.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Another great view. We need help with drivers names for these cars.	Courtesy of Joe Grossetti Come one, come all.	Courtesy of Joe Grossetti Joe's program. I have one, too, if I can find it.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti The well -traveled Stan Disbrow, from Poughkeepsie, NY	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Great action show with a smoking Car 5 on the pole.
Columbia Green News Photo via Joe Grossetti More action, with Fred Searing leading the pack. We need help with driver names.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti The 01 with a spare wheel at the ready. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 32 and pilot. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Car 54 and pilot. We need help with driver name for this car.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Howie Westervelt of Ravena, NY. Looks like him and the car number is accurate for the time.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti The smokey Car 5 from a previous action photo and the snappy - dressed pilot. We need help with driver name for this car.
George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Duke Southern, apparently a NJ driver. Professional - looking entry.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Doug Garrison winning May race at Coxsackie in 1953.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Amy Garrison Dauski via Joe Grossetti Doug with his Coxsackie car. Apparently very good equipment.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Another Garrison win.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Amy Garrison Dauski via Joe Grossetti Another Stillwell Motors 5 victory. It's too bad better records were not kept in this ewra. Drivers like Garrison, Westervelt, and others likely set records we think people like Hearn are the first to set.	George T. Morgan Photot Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Doug winning a Coxsacie race with Barney Tompkins' 99. We need help with driver name for the 95 car.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Hal McCarty was a top driver of that era - at several tracks.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti A different car for Hal here.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti George Welch driving Jim Brush's 27 at Coxsackie. Sometimes Huck Spaulding drove it.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Link Pettit, with his father-in-law Martin Lawrence's 00. We saw this car in Vermont in this time period.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti A night race win for Pete Winnie, who also appeared at tracks like Rte 66 Spdwy.	George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Pete Winnie with something approaching race tries.
George T. Morgan Photo Courtesy of Donna Kreeber-Mateer via Joe Grossetti Another Stan the Man win. Check out the little girl so close to the track.					Irv Conron Photo via Joe Grossetti Art Stuarts, Jr. - father of the Valley's Uncle Art, was chief pit steward at Coxsackie for a time.