The Starrin Family Photo Page

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Both Starin cars are shown in this photo in turns one and two at Whites Beach. It is likely that
Jackie is in the white car and the two tone is driven by Stan Burroughs. The 73 is probably Fred Searing.
The entire crash sequence can be seen on the Whites Beach Speedway page.

Jackie Starin drove stock cars at tracks such as Whites Beach Speedway and Hudson River Speedway in the 1950's. She and husband, Sonny fielded cars, mostly with the number 550. Besides Jackie, who is obviously one of the unheralded pioneers of female car racing, the 550's were sometimes driven by the likes of George Emden [aka Jerry Jerome] and Stan Burroughs. While Jackie receives little attention for her groundbreaking participation, Emden [a former roadster racing promoter] did achieve notoriety as having one of the worst crashes [in one of the 550's] in the history of Fonda Speedway.

The main characters in the Starin team are: Ed Abel [engines], Bill Musconi, Sonny Starin
[bodies] and Stan Burroughs, one of their stable of drivers. Other drivers included
Jack Harris, Jerry Jerome, Jackie Starin, George Baumgardner, and Herb Dunleavy.

The particular 550 Emden, driving as Jerry Jerome, wrecked, was a former Bob Whitbeck car which no one including Pete Corey could get to handle. No wonder he wrecked it. Jackie is featured in a series of shots of a spectacular wreck at Whites Beach, in her white 550. Luckily, she is not the wrecking car.

I met the Starins at the Saratoga Auto Museum during the 2012 Lost Race Tracks conference. Stupid me, I never thought to get a photo of Jackie and Sonny.

Ladabouche Collection Jackie Starin has missed the wrecking car 34 in this shot.	Starin Collection Jackie Starin, The white 550 at speed, at Whites Beach. Driver is unknown.	Starin Collection The white - bodied car at home - apparently being repaired.	Starin Collection One of the Starin Fords having distributor problems either at Whites Beach or Perth.	Starin Collection One of the Starin entries on its side. Might be Stan Burroughs on top.
Starin Collection The two toned 550, often driven by Jack Harris.	Starin Collection The 550 Jr that Jerome drove, being serviced.	Starin Collection George "Jerry Jerome" Emden, drove this Bob Whitbeck - built car from 1954 to 1958.	Starin Collection Supposedly the first flathead to win at Fonda.	Starin Collection Another 550Jr shot. Below - What thecar looked like when first build by Whitbeck.
Starin Collection Jerry Jerome sits, stunned, on what is left of his 550. This was the former Whitbeck car..	Starin Collection Jack Harris, with some sort of win at Fonda with a 550.	Starin Collection This snazzy #8 coupe is sitting at the Perth track, but I have seen it at several tracks, in photos. Anyone know who it is ?	Starin Collection Hollywood Speedway [formerly Route 66 Speedway] pit passes .	Starin Collection The pits at Perth's last speedway. Jeep Herbert's 1st car [451] with the Reg Lanphear car in the background.
Starin Collection The car 8, in the Perth pits. A man is adding water.	Starin Collection A Perth pit scene.	Starin Collection Apparently, a Perth wreck. Hard to tell.	Starin Collection A large #44 sedan, at Perth . This is Ken Pappy Delong - future Whites Beach promoter.	Starin Collection Car 10, at speed, on the Perth track.
Starin Collection An unidentified sedan off the Perth track.	Starin Collection Wow, does that look like Pete Corey passing by the Y3 pits.	Starin Collection This was apparently one of the roadsters that used to run at the track.	Starin Collection Ol' "Leadfoot", Carl Taber -	\| Starin Collection Cars line up on the Perth track. Herbert and Delong are recognizable.
Starin Collection Apparently, a wrecked passenger car at or near Perth.	Starin Collection This might be Sonny Starin, around 1958, working on the 2 tone 550.	Starin Collection The 2 tone 550, at speed, at Leb. Valley. Driver Unknown.	Starin Collection Another shot of what I call the 2 tone 550. It had the same color scheme as the Jerome 550 Jr.	Starin Collection The 2 tone 550, again, probably at Ed Abel's.

Courtesy of Andy Fusco
George Emden was one of a trio of promoters who ran this track near Perth, NY

Bittiig Collection
Fonda Hist. Book
Using the name
Jerry Jerome, Emden bought this car
built by Bob
Whitbeck, of Canajoharie, a man who promoted roadsters before Emden did.

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Jerry Jerome, on
the pole at Fonda
with the Whitbeck car.
Here, he has it
numbered 777.

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Now numbered as
550Jr, under the
Starin banner, he
wins an important
flatheads - only race
at Fonda in
Sept of 1958. Later that night he would run the
regular feature.

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The 550 Jr was
involved in a horendous wreck with Don Wayman.
Jerry sits, stunned on
the car; Doc
Blanchard's H2 is in the background, having
gotten the Jerome radiator through the windshield.

Feuz Collection
Fonda Hist. Book
The Wayman car
was also destroyed.

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The 550 Jr lays on
its side as crewman
Ed Abel looks on
in disbelief.

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The 550 Jr chassis
was used in building
another 550.

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A good look at a happier Jerome - prior to the Fonda wreck.

Starin Collection A future stock car, at someone's AMOCO station.	Starin Collection More of the future 550	Starin Collection What is this ? About a 1939 Ford ?	Starin Collection Parts are starting to come off.	Starin Collection One of the boys mugs it up for the camera.	Starin Collection Work is under way.	Starin Collection Sonny at work on the project.	Starin Collection More workers are added.
Starin Collection Same scene; different moment.	Starin Collection The 550 Jr chassis was used in building another 550.	Starin Collection Supervisors have been brought in to keep the crew on track.	Starin Collection These cars were very high tech - compared to today's junkers. :)	Starin Collection Possibly Bill Musconi at work on a bare chassis.	Starin Collection Imagine comparing those shops used by builders in those days to today's facilities.	Starin Collection Ed and Sonny, I believe.	Starin Collection Body work has begun.
Starin Collection Eat your heart out, Maynard Troyer !	Starin Collection More body work.	Starin Collection A finished and primered 550, perhaps waiting to go to Whites Beach.	Starin Collection Hooking up.	Starin Collection Ready to go. This looks like the white or gray one. My Guess]	Starin Collection After paint.	Starin Collection Might be the same body, who knows ?	Starin Collection Used hard and put away wet.

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Jack Harris with a Fonda heat win soon after that car was completed, but before the paint job.

Starin Collection 1950's decal.	Starin Collection Another 1950's racing decal.	Starin Collection Another 1950's racing decal.	Starin Collection Another 1950's racing decal.	Starin Collection Another 1950's racing decal. Very special to all of us who loved the Golden Age of Fonda.	Starin Collection Another 1950's racing decal.	Starin Collection No Women. That dates this pass just a bit.	Starin Collection Empire Raceway, Menands stubs.	Starin Collection 4 Fonda ticket stubs.
Starin Collection A Fonda ticket stub that mentions Jeep Herbert. 1956	Starin Collection 2 Fonda ticket stubs that mention Pete Corey 1956	Starin Collection A Fonda ticket stub to the drag races.	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR Pit Pass, the week of Grand National races at the track. Yr Unknown	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR Pit Pass, the week before the Jerome wreck. 1958	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR Pit Pass, the week after the Jerome wreck. 1958	Starin Collection Early Langhorne Pass. Yr Unknown	Starin Collection Langhorne Pit Pass 1960	Starin Collection Lebanon Valley Pit Pass 1957
Starin Collection Lebanon Valley Pit Pass 1957	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR Ladies Pit Pass, likely for Jackie. 1958	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR License 1949 NASCAR had just begun.	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR License 1949	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR License 1949	Starin Collection A Fonda NASCAR License 1949	Starin Collection Part of Sonny's NASCAR License 1957	Starin Collection Part of Sonny's NASCAR License 1960	Starin Collection Sonny's NASCAR License 1960 Now ya know his real name.
Starin Collection Part of Sonny's NASCAR License 1960	Starin Collection The front of a Fonda NASCAR Pit Pass, the week of the Jerome wreck. 1958	Starin Collection The Starins were both big go-kart racers.	Starin Collection Another Ticket Stub.	Starin Collection Did I mention The Starins were both big go-kart racers ?	Starin Collection 'Nuther go-kart track.	Starin Collection Likely, Syracuse.	Starin Collection Whites Beach Speedway Ticket Stubs.	Starin Collection A mimeographed Whites Beach Speedway Ticket