From Dan Ody's 8MM
Old Speedways DVD
Wes' first stock car
which was called "Moody's Goose". He got it for about $5.
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From Dan Ody's 8MM
Old Speedways DVD
"Moody's Goose" lays down a smoke screen going into Turn One at Saranac
Lake. |
From Dan Ody's 8MM
Old Speedways DVD
Find the smoke and you'll find "Moody's Goose"taking the green from Art
Prairie at Saranac Lake. |
Wes Moody Collection
The first real stock car
Wes built. He had drivers like Ken Dukette try it before he did. |
Bob Mackey Photo
via John Rock
Ken Dukette poses with the Moody's Boat Livery 66 at Airborne. |
Bob Mackey Photo
Via John Rock
The Moody's Boat Livery 66, in color, at Airborne - in the background. |
Bob Mackey Photo Via
John Rock
The Moody's Boat Livery 66, at speed, at Airborne.
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Moody Collection
Aaron
Hoyt, a long - suffering father figure to Wes and dad to Moody pal Jim
Hoyt. |
Moody Collection
The
Old Man,Wesley Moody, Sr. . You did not mess with this man.
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Moody Collection
Wes'
first really competitive car, a former Don House XL-1 out of New
Jersey. |
Moody Collection
Jim
Hoyt's Eddie Bellinger, Sr - inspired coupe.He and Wes would go to
Fonda and annoy the regulars there. Hoyt's car ended up in three
pieces one night. |
Moody Collection
The
1st cojupe with the familiar color scheme. Posing at Saranac Lake
with Bobby Ecert. |
Moody Collection
Wes,
with one of his first feature wins - at Saranac Lake. That's flagger
Art Prairie.
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Moody Collection
Wes,
with an earlier car at Victoria Speedway, a track where he once
irritated both his union father and the local regulars by breaking a
picket line.
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Moody Collection
Wes,
Sr., in an oil painting of an early Wes coupe. |
Moody Collection
Wes,
with one of his 1st devil's Bowl entries. |
Moody Collection
A
young Wes with a newly - completed coupe in the yard of the marina
and snowmobile dealership. |
Moody Collection
In
the snowmobile racing days. |
Wes Moody Collection
Wes' crew,
Including Denton
Dow [at right]
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Wes Moody Collection
Wes' new car attracts
attention at Devil's
Bowl. Among the lookers
is Chet Doaner.
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Wes Moody Collection
On the track at
Devil's Bowl
around 1967. |
Wes Moody Collection
The 1967 season
car, in its apparent
winter quarters. |
Wes Moody Collection
In a heat lineup at
Devils Bowl, around
1968. |
Wes Moody Collection
Al Charesse, an ace
snowmobile and boat mechanic for Moodys, tried his hand at stock
cars. Al on one of his sleds.
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Moody Collection
Later, in the pavement days. Wes thinks this might be Trenton. |
Moody Collection
Men
walk by the Moody pits at Devil's Bowl. They look like they might be
from the Butch Jelley group. |
Speedway Snapshots Driving for Augie
Lieber somewhere.
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John Grady Photo
A
shot taken early into his pavement coupe era. |
Moody Collection
A
Devil's Bowl wreck. The shot is blurry. |
Moody Collection
Climbing out at Devil's Bowl. Not sure if it is a wreck or just the
pit area. |
John Gallant Photo
Moody at Langhorne. There are sewveral 'Horne photos with this car
here.
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John Gallant Collection
At an unknown venue. |
Jim Conlon Collection
Moody at Langhorne, poitted next to partner in crime, Evans. |
Jim Szyzcur Collection
Moody on the track at Langhorne. |
D'Allesandro Photo
Wes, with Brian Ross and C.D. Coville. |
Duke McSpirit Collection
The car he used with promotional
support from the Lake Placid Winter Games. |
Norty Foster Photo
Wes and Gaylord Rowe, Jr. greet Jackie Peterson [rt] at an Airborne
Legends Night. |
Russ Bergh Photo
via Jim Kelly
Young
Wes poses for Russ Bergh as an unwelcome Fonda invader. |
Bob Mackey Photo
Ardyce Blohm Collection A 1968
Airborne portrait.
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John Gallant Collection
The 1972 car, at Shangri - La. |
David Frazer Photo
A recently repainted car at Devil's Bowl, 1968. |
John Gallant Collection
At Syracuse, 1981. |
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Jim Kelly Collection
At an unknown venue in 1969. |
Adirondack
Daily Enterprise Photo Getting support
from the local paper. |
Airborne Site
Photo With stepson Patrick Dupree, showing
a tribute graphics package on Pat's car. |
Jim Weber Collection
At an unknown venue, 1970. |
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