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Vukie (Offline)
  #1 8/25/10 2:09 PM
Knoxville Nationals 1978. I think.
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Seadog (Offline)
  #2 8/25/10 4:05 PM
Originally Posted by Vukie:
Knoxville Nationals 1978. I think.
Maybe I'm wrong, but weren't wings on the cars for Knoxville in '78?

I remember the one and only WoO race I went to at Eldora in '78, MOST of the cars had wings, but a few did not. I think Roger Rager ran without one among others.

Anybody know for sure?

Nic pic though.
Vukie (Offline)
  #3 8/25/10 4:14 PM
Originally Posted by Seadog:
Maybe I'm wrong, but weren't wings on the cars for Knoxville in '78?

I remember the one and only WoO race I went to at Eldora in '78, MOST of the cars had wings, but a few did not. I think Roger Rager ran without one among others.

Anybody know for sure?

Nic pic though.
Greg, no wings for three years [1978-1980] that I attended. After the Gary Scott fatal wreck in 1982[?] wings were added.
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PAW (Offline)
  #4 8/25/10 4:16 PM
1981 Last non-wing Nationals, Kinser

:99:: Wings Don't Move Air THEY SUCK
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Seadog (Offline)
  #5 8/25/10 4:20 PM
Anybody know who owned that car? Stapp? Big guess on my part. I have no idea really.

I like the Firestone Drag 500 tires on it.
TQ29m (Offline)
  #6 8/25/10 4:54 PM
Originally Posted by Vukie:
Knoxville Nationals 1978. I think.
Hell, almost everyone had hair in them days, me, Dave, Danny, looks like Schrader even! Don't look like a Stapp car to me, might be a Doemelt! Bob :2:

"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
Finner18 (Offline)
  #7 8/25/10 4:56 PM
That car was owned by Ray Marler who co-owns I-55 in Pevely now with him.
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Vukie (Offline)
  #8 8/25/10 4:57 PM
Originally Posted by TQ29m:
Hell, almost everyone had hair in them days, me, Dave, Danny, looks like Schrader even! Don't look like a Stapp car to me, might be a Doemelt! Bob :2:
I still have hair.
TQ29m (Offline)
  #9 8/25/10 5:12 PM
We all do, but not all of it is on our heads anymore, my eyebrows and nose hair win that one! Bob

"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
ThePurple73 (Offline)
  #10 8/25/10 7:53 PM
I think it may be the 1977 nationals. There is a trailer in the picture which I think belonged to Siebert Olds. As I remember it was the first time some one brought a sprint car in a major enclosed trailer. Eddie Leavitt drove the Siebert #9 at the nationals. The car next to Kenny is the #40 R&H Farms car. I think this 40 car was new as the #40 that won the nationals was a Beck car.

Was the Marler car a former Pancho Carter car? I remember the 4 was sort of a robins egg blue color.
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