Photographer Unknown
DAVE DION
A Major
Player on the Stock
Car Stage of Vermont
Photographer Unknown
Dave Dion at a Quebec track
with photographer
Denis "Le Boy" LaChance - around 1986.
Dave Dion is easily one of the most beloved dd a Ford, and it was usually orange or reddish-orange.
Photographer Denis LaChance
The Dion car waiting to
qualify 1980. Standing with his hand on his
leg, in
the black shirt, is sponsor C.J. Stewart. of Cuttingsville, VT.
Because of his immediate popularity and his effectiveness [partic
Photographer Denis LaChance
Dave Dion entering the Catamount racing surface around 1978.
Dion found himself caught up in the mess in the 1980's when Catamount drivers were split into two camps: the drivers who went with promoter Tom Curle
 Courtesy of Ed Fabian Dion's first car in Vermont, around 1972 |
 Courtesy of Ed Fabian Dion's familiar Stewart & Sons Ford
|
 Courtesy of Andy Boright Dion gets crumpled as John Peoples gets by - 1973 |
 Courtesy of Dan Nolin Dion leads the 1974 Milk Bowl, ahead of George Horn |
 Source Unknown The Fairmont, sponsored by Green Mountain Ford Dealers |
 Courtesy of Dan Nolin Same car, bravely smiling after some Oxford 250 "modifications"
|
 Courtesy of Andy Boright The Cougar. I swear they tried to make those cars ugly! |
 Source Unknown The Grand National car |
 Courtesy of Andy Boright The ACT plastic car |
 Source Unknown One of the first Busch GNN cars |
 Alan Ward Photo The ACT car |
 Courtesy of Andy Boright The most recent car - at Thunder Road - 2005 |
y when he
broke with
NASCAR and went
to smaller fiberglass-bodied cars, and the drivers who remained loyal to NASCAR
and left the track to go race in the Busch Grand Nati
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