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

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

Kyle

[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?

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

[QUOTE=sceckert;85975] That photo is from 1962 (last year of flathead power at Reading) with driver, Calvin Calp.