Jerry Shaw (Offline)
#15
6/23/14 6:00 PM
Originally Posted by DAD:
The # 70 racer is sure not Roy Robins, maybe Roy Wathen? The #2 guy looks more like Roy Robbins. When you met Roy for the first time you didn't notice his face, the first thing you noticed was his Arms, they was big, but the most striking thing was his fore arms, they looked like Pop-Eye's. Probably due to his trade as an "Iron Worker". They didn't use ladders to climb them beams they just grabbed hold of them and walked on up them. Power steering had not been invented back then and I am sure those arms helped quite a bit in some of those longer races that they ran back then. I heard that they also came in pretty handy in some of them after race discussions about rules and racing etiquette. Back then kids weren't allowed in the pits and very few females ventured to that side of the pit gate either.
I came up with about 32 names for 25 faces.
Honest Dad himself
The #70 driver is obviously Dick Gaines and the line from the 70 on the photo points to his name. Also, Orval Yeadon is in this photo. That's a guy that you don't hear mentioned often, but if you know anybody that has old newspapers, you know this is a guy who won a lot of races in this era.
Jerry
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