West Haven, Vermont

Covering Mostly Pre - 1990 History

THE MIKE MATERIALS [BRUNO, RICHARDS, AND LADUC]

MIKE BRUNO : PHOTOS & MATERIALS NOT DISPLAYED ELSEWHERE

Mike Bruno Collection Butch Rogers is trophied by Paul Cummings as Jim Frye and Tom Perry look on. Possbile West Haven Speedway scenario. Butch won a title both in 1977 aand 1981.	Mike Bruno Photo Russ Betz arrives with the potent 59 CT. Then driven by Rene Charland.	Mike Bruno Photo Stub Fadden and Dan Bridges. Northern NASCAR - First Pavement Era.	Bruno Collection Denis Giroux, Montreal, QU The famed Emrick 50.	Bob Frazier Photo Bruno Collection Chuck Ely, John Bruno, and Ray Nutting collect hardware. Earlier Dirt Era Probably.	Bob Savoie, Broadalbin, NY Mike Richards' 75.
Mike Bruno Photo The Tremont Falcon. First Dirt Era.	Which Track Photographer is not Known Harry Peek. John Bruno's 22 - Second Dirt Era.	Mike Bruno Collection How sadly prophetic was this article. Leon would die at Devil's Bowl of a heart attack years later.	Mike Bruno Collection C.D. Coville. Second Dirt Era. Mike Richards' Car.	Mike Bruno Collection C.D. Coville. Second Dirt Era. 1984-5.	Mike Bruno Collection D Bowl Opens the New Era. First Pavement Era. Northern NASCAR.
Mike Bruno Collection D Bowl Poster. Cannot Determine the Era.	Mike Bruno Collection Sonny Rabieau, Brattleboro, VT. FIrst Dirt Era. Leo Vallancourt's Car.	Mike Bruno Collection 1969 Ivie O'Donnell Article. First Dirt Era.	Bob Frazier Photo Mike Bruno Collection Bob Ellis, West Haven, VT 1St Pavement Era. Ray Richards' NASCAR Late Model Sportsman.	Mike Bruno Collection Will Cagle, with All Star League Helmet. D Bowl never got a ASL Team.	Mike Bruno Collection Claude Hoard, Eagle Bridge, NY. Second Dirt Era.
Bob Frazier Photo Mike Bruno Collection Pete Corey in the Durrum 222 Midget. Early Bruno Wrecker Behind. Probably Louie's.	Mike Bruno Collection 1976 Bowl Points Did Chase Influence Gibby to Come Later ?. Second Dirt Era.	Mike Bruno Collection Denny Soltis, Torrington, CT Second Dirt Era.	Mike Bruno Collection A Somewhat Weathered Aerial View.	Mike Bruno Collection Ed Foley, Leicester, VT Austin Dickerman 357	Mike Bruno Collection Jack Cottrell, Rock City Falls, NY A Very Early Car For Him.
Mike Bruno Collection At Devil's Bowl with the Tremont Falcon.	Mike Bruno Collection Matt Waite, E. Dorset, VT We Lost Him Too Early.	Mike Bruno Collection Matt Waite, Vince Quenneville, Sr., and Hector Stratton in Vic Lane.	Mike Bruno Collection Maynard Forrette, Amsterdam, NY. The Cyclone was Originally from Ellenburg Depot, NY.	Mike Bruno Collection An 2006 Article About Mike and Other Local Drivers.	Mike Bruno Collection A Wonderful Photo: Norm Scarborough is advising Bob Ellis and Ray Richards on Their LMS. Ist Pavement Era.
	Mike Bruno Collection Ray Dalmata. Johnstown, NY 2nd Dirt Era.	Mike Bruno Collection Vince Quenneville, Sr. Brandon, VT Ist Pavement Era.	Mike Bruno Collection Vince Quenneville, Sr. Brandon, VT The Fat Rabbit Norm Scarborough Oversees Detail in 1968, Their Championship Year. Ist Dirt Era.	Mike Bruno Collection Rudy Charbonneau, Whiting, VT Ist Dirt Era. The Diminutive Driver was the Third Classmate in the Tiny Whiting Elem. School to Vince Q. and Norm Scarborough

MIKE RICHARDS : PHOTOS & MATERIALS NOT DISPLAYED ELSEWHERE
Most of His Stuff is Already on Other D Bowl Pages

1970 Promo Poster.

A Pre - D Bowl Oldie - Fairmont Speedway. P1965 set the stage for Devil's Bowl, bringing in the overhead V-8 sportsman and seeing the hobby class upgraading itself.	Mike Bruno Photo Russ Betz arrives with the potent 59 CT. Then driven by Rene Charland.	Harmon Bove Race. 1969 Dirt Era I.	Jelley Wins at Bowl. Dirt Era I.	Ivie O'Donnell Column on Beaver Dragon. Dirt Era I.	Beaver Dragon Article 1969 Dirt Era I.
Another Thrilling Dirt Program at D Bowl. 1968 Dirt Era I.	CJ Mad About News Coverage. 1970 Pavement Era I.		CVRA Rainout 1970 Pavement Era I.	Cagle to Run the Pavement at D Bowl. 1970 Pavement Era I.	Bob Pick to Drive at D Bowl 1970 Pavement Era I.
Sports Car Shows at Airborne and D Bowl 1970 Pavement Era I.	CVRA Rainout 1970 Pavement Era I.	Mr. Clean, Marcel Godard, WIns One. 1970 Pavement Era I.	Bob Dragon Win Streak Article. 1972 Pavement Era I. I GUess they Figured One Red 71 is the Same as the Next.	Beaver Wins Season Operner at Catamount. 1973 What Could be Better ? He'd Win the Next one, as well, at the Bowl. Pavement Era I.	Beaver Wins Season Operner at D Bowl, too. 1973 Pavement Era I.
Crouch Wins at D Bowl. 1970 Pavement Era I.	Crouch Wins at D Bowl. 1972 Holy Crap Did They Murder Crouch and Kourafas' Names ! Pavement Era I.	Bobby Allison at D Bowl. 1972 Pavement Era I.	Snowmobile Racingat D Bowl. Year and Era Unknown.	Jelley on  D Bowl Program. 1976 Dirt Era II.	Covilleon  D Bowl Program. 1976 Dirt Era II.
		Pancho Carter at Rutland fair.	Sonny Stevens won the Rutland fair race the year before Pancho Carter.

SOME RAY RICHARDS FAIRMONT AND D BOWL CARS

The George Pritchard  - driven RR, at the Rutland Fair. 1962 The frame was wrecked; the body ended up on one of Beaver Dragon's D Bowl #75's.	The George Pritchard  - driven RR, at the Richards garage. 1962 It only ran briefly in 1962.	1st Hobby Car at Fairmont. 1963	The Jim Spaulding - driven 15, at the Richards garage. 1965. It only ran briefly in 1964 and 1965.	Jim Spaulding. Ray Richards with theca at Fairmont before the overhead V-8 was installed 1964. It was bought somewhere in Conn. or Mass..	Covilleon  D Bowl Program. 1976 Dirt Era II.
The Former Norm Cyr car. Run briefly in 1967. Beaver won his famous Catamount victory in this car in 1966.	The next D Bowl car, with Ray. 1967. It looks like a former Riverside Park pavement car.	The next D Bowl car, with Ray. 1967.	Arrival in West Haven with Ray's Caddy. 1967.	The Jiratoms stood for Jim [Spaulding], Ray [Richards], and Tom {Perry].	Ray summarily disposed of the car at D Bowl in. 1967, tangling with Charlie McMahan.
Beaver Dragon, with a Richards entry 1968. This body was  on the ill -fated RR car from 1962.The running gear may have come from a builder in Agawam, MA.	Dragon Family Collection Beaver, with the first Richards car for him. 1968. This was the former Taggart car of Russ Shaw and would become Bob Ellis' 76.	The Ellis 76. The roofline and the way the body sits looks just like the 43.	Two Richards dirt modifieds	he Ellis 76 Late Model Sportsman. Mike and Ray ran this Caban - built car for Bob Eliis in 1973. Won Rookie of the Year over some much better - financed competitors.
Bob, Ray, and U NK crewman.	Earlier fabricated midifieds.

My favorite of Mike's collection: I call it The Devil's Bowl Mafia: Ray Richards, Steady Eddie Allen, sign painter Mal Brown,
Norm "The Fat Rabbit" Scarborough, Al Ryan, and the flamboyant Austin Dickerman. Sadly, only Ray and Ed are left.

 
Another 1970 Promo Poster.

MIKE LADUC : PHOTOS & MATERIALS NOT DISPLAYED ELSEWHERE

Mike Laduc Photo Sonny Rabideau. Leo Vallancourt 333 . Beside Johnny Kollar Dirt Era I.	Uncle, Phil Laduc . Dirt Era I.	Uncle, Phil Laduc . Dirt Era I. Later Car.	Phil Laduc's Sportsman. Dirt Era II.	Mark O'Neill. Chester, VT . Dirt Era I.	Mert Hulbert, Oak Hills, NY . Toward the end of the Danyow Champlain Construction era. Dirt Era I.
Mike Laduc Photo Future VT State Champion, Ralph Soulia. . Dirt Era I.	Mike Laduc Photo Eddie Allen's 33 and the Clayton Ryan 211 pit near each other. . Dirt Era I.	Mike Laduc Photo Charlie laduc's Henry J. . Dirt Era I.	Mike O'Neill Collection Another Bowl rainout. CJ was the quickest on the trigger to call one than anyone I ever knew. The Lulecks, Jim Byrne, and Mark O'Neill are identifiable here. Dirt Era I.	Mike O'Neill Collection Devil's Bowl ad featuring Mark O'Neill. Dirt Era I.	Cousin Tim Laduc with an earlier Pro Stock. Dirt Era II.
Mike Laduc with his Pro Stock. Dirt Era II.	MIke Laduc. Father Elroy Laduc at Right and Joe Zuccarello. Dirt Era II.	Allen Higley's support division car. Dirt Era II.	Vince Quenneville at Syracuse. Dirt Era II.	Butch Jelley. Dickerman's Station Wagon Mod Dirt Era Ii.	Mike Laduc's recreation of the Jelley 357. Dirt Era II.
Paul Parker. Beside Pete Corey Jr. Dirt Era II.	A and A Ward Photo Charlie Wilbur. . Dirt Era II.	Sean Delaney. With Pete Delaney . Dirt Era II.	Win Slavin. Clayton Ryan 211 Dirt Era II.	Mike Bussino. Mike Laduc's 5Aces . Number Honors Jerry King. Dirt Era II.	Mike Bussino. Mike Laduc's 5Aces . Number Honors Jerry King. Dirt Era II.

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