Watch for a story about Steve in the next issue of the Hawkeye Racing News. Also, there's one on Doug Clark, the Knoxville flagman.
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Sorry to sharp shoot you quick change but Kenny Weld was the first one to win with both wings and non-wings, 1973 was the first wing nationals till 1981.

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Originally Posted by somebodysmam it was paragon and he ran under the name mark todd.it was his first feature win at paragon and he came back to racing local.bob thompson took care of the usac car also,it was 69 and owned by elmer smith i believe.

car 49 elmer mayhew from danville ill in usac

[Panama]

Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE car 49 elmer mayhew from danville ill in usac

Hey Duke,
Is this the car?
This 'IS" Steve at Salem in 1977
Not a great picture, but HELL it was probably taken with a Kodak Instamatic and it is a 31 year old picture.



Here is a better one of Ol Bob at Salem in the Jerry Sheilds sprinter

[SpfldMile]

There was a little race on the Springfield Mile back in 82 that was USAC vs. the Outlaws. The guys ran heats in sprints and dirt champ cars. The feature was in dirt champs. I remember Steve was hanging it out there pretty good in the big car. Danny Smith won one of the races in the Kenny Rogers car. Hewitt won the hundred lapper at the end. I have an old Open Wheel where Earl Baltes said he saw Steve Kinser drive the best race he had ever seen, in a dirt champ car.

Panama you have some great pics. I'd like to get my hands on them. Steve is the best ever. They don't call him "THE KING" for nothing. He is.

[somebodysmam]

you are right about the 49 car. I'm old and forget somethings

Originally Posted by psullivan Vukie's recollection of the Gary Scott tragedy brings up for me, a real irony. I was at Knoxville the very next Saturday night program after Gary died -- Bob Trostle - who had great influence at that time - had told Ralph Capitani that if the wings didn't come on, he for one would not come back. So when that Saturday rolled around and the wing cars came out for hot laps - several long time fans just got up and left in disgust. Now, while the worm is turning just a bit, if it isn't winged sprint cars at Knoxville on Saturday night the regular crowd isn't all that interested.

I'm all for non-wing stuff, but from what I know of that time period at Knoxville going to the wings was probably the right move. If you've heard any of the details of Scott's wreck or the Darryl Dawley / Roger Larson double fatal, they were not pretty to see. I think in Dave's first book there's a chapter in there about Trostle and he states he'd seen 10 guys killed at Knoxville in a something like a 15- or 20-year span.

With today's safety improvements, I reckon things might be a lot better now if they took the wings off on a regular basis, but back then Knoxville was a widowmaker even worse than it is now.

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Originally Posted by Fisher79 I'm all for non-wing stuff, but from what I know of that time period at Knoxville going to the wings was probably the right move. If you've heard any of the details of Scott's wreck or the Darryl Dawley / Roger Larson double fatal, they were not pretty to see. I think in Dave's first book there's a chapter in there about Trostle and he states he'd seen 10 guys killed at Knoxville in a something like a 15- or 20-year span. With today's safety improvements, I reckon things might be a lot better now if they took the wings off on a regular basis, but back then Knoxville was a widowmaker even worse than it is now.

In Wolfgang's book he talks about pulling Darryl's severed hand off the header... crazy stuff.