Only The Brave !!
 

These guys were not as fast as today's racers, but they were BRAVE.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...53019742&hl=en

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I seen non wing sprints or roadsters and modifieds. Maybe some NASCAR .KOOL!!!

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Wow, great videos, scary too. Hell, that last one where the car was engulfed in flames, yet cars were still flying through the turn, what a mess. Guess they didn't have raceceivers heh?

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That last wreck was Langhorne in the early 50s, started when Wally Campbell had a problem coming out of turn 4. Others couldn't see that far ahead, being the the 'Horne was pretty much a circle.

Marv, weren't you there?:thumb

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Al, Was the board track midget film at the beginning at Nutley?

Vern Plotts

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Makes one wonder ...How many Coupes/Sedans were cut up for Racers back in those years??.......
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Brucer'

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Originally Posted by AustinSprinter:
Makes one wonder ...How many Coupes/Sedans were cut up for Racers back in those years??.......
__________
Brucer'

I used to get a kick out of telling street rod fans about the '32 & '34 Ford coupes we had cut up. Sometimes I'd show them a pic. Made them wanna cry. I was really mean when I was young. :-)

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Neat video, but the cartoon music really did
not fit well with the garish accident scenes.

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan:
I used to get a kick out of telling street rod fans about the '32 & '34 Ford coupes we had cut up. Sometimes I'd show them a pic. Made them wanna cry. I was really mean when I was young. :-)

That's not nice, Dick...makes me cry too.:O: My dad was responsible for cutting up a few of them. I wish I had those cars today.:)

http://www.pbase.com/consoli/image/55851164.jpg

Vern... Nutley was a little before my time, but from some old photos I've seen, it does look like Nutley.......Dangerous Place !

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I was born in the wrong era!

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and the old timers complained that rollbars made brave a-holes out of every wombat out there and all they did was wreck cars

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I read stories about the old board tracks. Man talk about some fast dangerous racing those Drivers just WOW!!!!!!!!

Kyle

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[QUOTE=Al Consoli;85842]That's not nice, Dick...makes me cry too.:O: My dad was responsible for cutting up a few of them. I wish I had those cars today.:)

Just seeing that picture of The Famed 54 at Reading gets me a little misty-eyed, too. Isn't that picture about 1966, or so? Just a little before Bobby Gerhart started spanking `em in it?

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Wow, those guys were crazy! It makes me proud to be racing with the "modern" version of those guys....and it raises up my level of respect for those pioneers up *that much* more

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Originally Posted by Al Consoli:
That's not nice, Dick...makes me cry too.:O: My dad was responsible for cutting up a few of them. I wish I had those cars today.:)

Just seeing that picture of The Famed 54 at Reading gets me a little misty-eyed, too. Isn't that picture about 1966, or so? Just a little before Bobby Gerhart started spanking `em in it?

That photo is from 1962 (last year of flathead power at Reading) with driver, Calvin Calp.