FABULOUS FACEBOOK FINDS    

I sincerely hope I don't already have a page like this. I looked and looked, but couldn't find one on the site. This is featuring some of the most exciting
photos I have found roaming around on the various vintage racing facebook pages. Many are rare and obscure. Some are less so, but simply
ones I haven't been able to find before.

Courtesy of  John Gallant A young Doc Blanchard in what might be Red Cromer's Oldsmobile. There has been a number of 49's and of Blanchard cars; but I never saw this one before.	Courtesy of  LaQuerre Family It seems like Joey LaQuerre has raced forever. I had always heard about his father, Armand - but this is the only photo of the racing patriarch's car. It might be Joey, himself sitting inside.	Courtesy of  Corey Kennedy Pico Raceway was the first track I ever  attended. I was well aware the Romano family not only ran the track but had at least two race cars. This shot of Big Bill Anderson is with the rarer, harder to find team car to Al Romano's 303.	Courtesy of  LaQuerre Family West Sand Lake, NY's Bill Stevens was at the frist race I saw at CJ Richards' Fairmont Speedway. I photogrpahed he car in September and captured his young daughter. A few years back, the daughter contacted me through Facebook and this photo is one of the results.
Courtesy of  Sam Barlow  I had seen the 1963 United Stock Car racing Club's Grand American show at the fairgrounds in Rutland, VT. BOb Devine had run a steady third all day unitl leaving the track and striking a woman in the parking lot. It took me years to find a photo his '61 Chevy he drove that day.	Courtesy of  Woody Woodbury Fairmont Speedway rookie Chet Doaner had picked up a Claremont Speedway car for his first season. Later. Chittenden, VT's Bob Taylor bought the car. I waited decades to find a photo of it as Taylor's - he is at right. He wrecked it end for end  not long after debuting it.	Courtesy of  John Lutz During his three year time at Northern NASCAR, John Rosati had three Ford Fairlanes, either built by him or the famed Fred Rosner. One was sold to the tempestuous Devil's Bowl driver Bucky Dragon. I finally got a pohot of it as Dragon's car [while it lasted].	Courtesy of  Dennis Bulger Collection via Chas Hertica Butch Jelley's Y was always a favorite of mine, This car was a surprise to me as I always thought his '37 Ford was his first. The photo is extra neat because it also shows the 151 of DOn Leffler. a car I had seen at the first Fairmont Speedway show in 1962.
Courtesy of  Arnie Ainsworth I never saw a photo of the Butch Jelley's Ed Winn - owned Y looking as new as it looks here.	Courtesy of  Marty Kelly Jr. I waited for years to get a good shot of Charlie Brown's 17 - the former first car of Butch Rogers.	Courtesy of  Rick Parry Rick Parry found this amazing shot taken at Pete Corey's body shop. The Studebaker, headed out for its maiden voyage. The coupe he built after losing the Falcon sits in the background.	Courtesy of  Rick Parry Pete Corey with the coupe he built after losing the Falcon. The Crescent Hillbilly reference is first seen, as well as the stuffed TIger which used to ride on the Falcon.

Courtesy of  Rick Parry The Cross - owned 47, withits various hired drivers, was always a favorite of mine. This was a far better photo than anything I had prior.	Courtesy of  Sam Barlow Roadster specialist Del Moak, with what is said to be the first Toll Gate Ice Cream car. Moak had driven his own powerful "Deep 6" roadster prior to this.	Courtesy of  Justin St. Louis I asked and asked for an early photo of Fast Eddy Keenan, from Warrensurgh, NY. Devil's Bowl's Justin St. Louis finally came up with this.	Courtesy of  Bruce Brockett This is a very rare photo from Whites Beach Speedway. Ed Brockett with his Gold Comet car. Either Ed or his son ran a Studebaker in the semi late models at Malta later.
Courtesy of  Alan McDonald Jim Hoyt poses with his newly - designed 55 [with input from Ed Belinger, Sr]. Little did he know he would crash on the Fonda frontstretch, breaking the car into several pieces.	Courtesy of  Rick Parry When Bill Fowler brought out his new version of the 27Jr, all I had ever seen was the car with the rear of the body cut off. Here, we have the full body and driver Paul Marshall, whom I never saw drive the car.	Frank Simek Photo [obviously] Simek got a good shot of Skip Roots, a local Fonda driver from nearby Gloversville.	Courtesy of Ronnie Caisse Hunt  I had taken two photos of this car, but was never certain of who drove it [kind of driver by committee]. This time, photographer Bob Frazier shot Skip WIlcox at the contorols at Fairmont.
Courtesy of  Tim Rogers NY driver - for -hire had innumerable rides over the years. He partly owned the 1NY, one of his most popular rides. NH's Ted Brown enters Devil's Bowl with that car - having now been owned for the third time.	Russ Bergh Photo Courtesy of  John Chest Kids get a ride at Fonda with Canajoharie's Willie Chest. They couldn't have climbed in with a nicer and more popular driver.	Courtesy of  Scott Belknap Former open wheel driver in the 1940's, Art Spoar [Spore - take your pick] was one of Pete Corey's less - known car owners in the early years.	Courtesy of  Ayotte Collection Like the Charlie Brown car above, Bruce Milo's Camaro was one of the Butch Rogers - influenced late models of the 1970's at Devil's Bowl. Bruce was known to occasionally invade Brookfield.

Courtesy of Walter Newell  One of all - time favorite racing classes was the Oxford Plains six cylinder, large - bodied Chargers, and Charlie Martin was my favorite Charger.	Courtesy of  Silodrome.com Some photographer caught the Herny Caputo Plymouth [11] from Hudson Falls, NY mixing it up with the big boys on the Daytona beach course.	Courtesy of  Irv Taylor I have several photos of the Rollie John son /Richard Welch 77, but I never saw this graphics package. I think Johnson still owned it and Irv Taylor was driving then.	Courtesy of  Jim Kelly Future car builder extraordinaire Dexter Dorr of Manchester, VT with his first sportsman coupe at Victoria.
Bob Farlee Photo Courtesy of Joe Cryan We are all pretty familiar with George Janoski's long - lasting Chevy sportsman coupe, but this one is earlier and is a Ford. Notice the Koszella 15 of Ernie Gahan is also a Ford back then.	Russ Bergh Photo Courtesy of Jim Kelly This is the infamous Mel Austin crash into the tower at Victoria. It shows where Tom Douglas got his first car from. All TD did was add a 1 to the number.	Source Uncertain - Canadian 8MM Some old 8MM footage caught future Catamount Stadiumn co-founder Jack Dubrul trying out some racing at Quebec's Fury Speedway. This was his flathead pavement Thunder Road car.	Courtesy of Flemke.com This is said to be a very young Jerry Cook posing as a driver. Must be he was at a non-NASCAR track where he could Drive. In 1963 he still couldn't drive his own car at NASCAR - sanctioned Otter Creek Speedway.
Courtesy of Flemke.com A very young Ron Narducci, somewhere in Western NY, with a very early car.	David Frazier Photo I had heard the story of Bill Stevens selling his last S29 to the HOffer family, and the car was summarily wrecked that same week at Devil's Bowl. Here's the car, with the S29 changed to X9, before the wreck.	Resent to me By Big Bigelow There are few photos of the 1961 Lebanon Valley show staged at the VT State Fair. This one was  a thrill when it came out: Bill Webb [33] and Doug Garrison in the Riiska yellow X. Most shots show Webb, but Joe Messina supposedly won.	Courtesy of Mark Austin 1965 was a difficult year for Thunder Road. With the advent of Catamount, NASCAR had taken over both tracks, giving T Road's beloved flatheads a one year grandfathered tenure. Frustrated by the totla dominance of the overhead V-8's from NY and Quebec, Ken Squier threw them out midway through the season. This shot shows a tangle up that happened before the sportsman cars left.

Courtesy of Gary Nephew One of the all - time favorite racing stories in Cnada for me was the management of Riverside Speedway, frustrated with freeloaders watching the races in the trees. When the track tried tear gas on them, the stuff drifted into the paying spectators instead. This shot shows some of the tree toads watching off turn four.	Courtesy of  Annette Azchet-LaTaif Johnstown, NY's fun loving Red Knoblauch had his car painted to look a lot like  the Mott 3 of Pete Corey to mess with the latter's fans.	Russ Bergh Photo Courtesy of  Ed Biitig This early ride for Canajoharie's Bob Sitterly is in obvious distress. Sitterly's son, Otto, would also go"on to be a successful driver [mostly in supermods].	+ Courtesy of  Doug Post A young Ray "Zero" Brown with his car at the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx in the late 1940's. There are almost no photos of stock cars racing in the huge indoor venue.
Possibly a Frank Simek Photo Courtesy of  Lou Lazzaro This became my all - time favorite Fonda pit photo because it shows So many obscure teams. Al Sanders brought two cars - A3 and the A2 on the trailer; Jim Thomas' 60, the former Willie Chest car; Tom DOuglas' first 991; and Hank LeClaire's 21 are among these.	Photo by and Courtesy of  Joe Cryan Joe Cryan put this shot on one of the Facebook pages. Henry Caputo's Plymouth coupe. Caputo was all first-rate with matching haulers and so forth. I think the car ended up with the Richard Welch 77  team later.	Courtesy of  The Myers Family Without all of these vintage racing facebook pages, we'd not get to see people like Beech Ridge stalwart and racing pioneer Benny Myers.	Photo by Russ Bergh  Courtesy of  Bob Novak It was a thrill to see a photo of a car I saw way back at Otter Creek Speedway in Vergennes, VT in 1961 or 1962. Doc Blanchard's 95. possibly a former Ray Vine car. The car is pictured in the Otter Creek action photo furhter above.
From Stock Car racers' Reunion Site Where else but Facebook pages would you catch Junior Hanley driving this kind of car ? No 72 yet.	Mike Maqssaglia Photo JIt looks like Mike almost stood on his head to get in this shot of Northern NASCAR driver Lennie "Tiger" Stockwell and his unique hauler.	From Christina Olsen Kilburn The Midwest had its James brothers, New Jersey had its Cordeleone brothers, and we in Vermont proudly have these guys - the Lussiers. All four raced at Devil's Bowl. From left: my friend Chris, Yogi, Mike, and Reggie. They could get a ton of performance out of a shoestring budget.	From Lew Boyd This shot shows the tendency of the high buck Kiekhaeffer team to innovate in the NASCAR Grand Nationals in the 1950's. Butch Jelley's Y had a similar exhaust system in 1962.

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