Driving the race car in that pic was Dale Detmer, driving the boat was his brother Bud, who normally drove the race car. Bud died in a water ski accident if I remember correctly. I'm guessing the guy driving the pace car could be Bill Broderick (a PR guy who did some work for NASCAR and Union76). Bill drove the pace car quite a bit at Lawrenceburg, however, I could be completely wrong about who is in it in this pic. It's possible that it could Roy Mattlin or one of the Nopperts (promotors at the time).

PS..fishnman is correct about the flooding. I spent many-a-spring nights and days with rented pumps, camping out on the crown of turns 3 and 4 pumping out the track. My alarm was the pump motors shutting off. Had to refuel them and then go back to sleep until they ran out again. Also you could find little "mini-geysers" springing up out of the track surface! We would take a garden trowel and dig around the geyser and actually find fresh water mussels in the track!!

PSS...someone can correct me on the picture but, that is my memory of it.

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If you scroll down aways the black #3N car is a brand new 1978 Nance driven by "Wild Bill" Owens and owned by Jimmy Sullivan. That car was my first steady sprint car ride. I drove it from 1981-83 with the Johnny Lightning paint job on it. The winter of 83-84 we sold the Nance and bought the Kerry Norris Neibel built car.[COLOR="Black"]

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