PHUN PHOTOS

Ladabouche Photo Ray Sitterly, Amsterdam, NY Towing into Fonda	Bob Mackey Photo Courtesy of Rock & Castine Rene Charland leads Ernie Reid and Wes Moody Airborne Speedway	Bob Mackey Photo Gary Nephew Jean Guy Chartrand Airborne Speedway	Schenectady Collection Photo Courtesy of Otto Graham Pete Corey in A.C. Caprara's 37 Fonda Speedway	Bob Mackey Photo Courtesy of Rock & Castine Rare shot of the eldest Branham brother, Charlie [with Bill] Airborne Speedway	LaDuc Family Photo Courtesy of Barb L. Cecil Bosworth awarded by Ken Squier as C.J. Richards looks on. At Hampton Manor, which is now Dave Camara's garage.
Dick Berggren Photo via Lew Boyd Charlie Elliott grading Canaan USA	Courtesy of Cho Lee Bobby Dragon's brain trust, 1973. Catamount From left: Frankie Woodard, Billy Tower, Gary Desranleau, Veronica Dragon, John Kiefer, Bobby Clark, and Steve Hibbard.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Vintage Clean-up Crew Thunder Road	Courtesy of Cho Lee Jack Dubrul's dragster & driver Thunder Road	Courtesy of Ken Johnson via Three Wide John Dawsen Unknown Track Don't you love the ad ?	Gilbert Family Photo Lloyd Gilbert, Milton, VT Malletts Bay Raceway His number was the weekly special at his grocery store.
Lewis Silvius Photo via Three Wide Mario and Aldo Andretti's first stock car. Pennsylvania	Courtesy of Rich Palmer Lee Carpenter Colchester, VT Catamount The beloved Lark	Courtesy of Dan Ody Ken Shoemaker leads Howie Westervelt and the Allie Swears car. Unknown Track	MoodyFamily Photo Wes Moody, Saranac LK, NY Devil's Bowl Mechanic Fran Kane is probably wondering who taught the sign painter to spell [and no, it wasn't my work].	Source Unknown Beaver helping an under-crewed Ron Barcomb Catamount	Source Unknown Big Ed Patnode and car owner Leo Matgo[?] at work. Riverside
Courtesy of Wes Moody Veteran Ken Delong takes the checkers in a heat at the record - breaking VT State Fair race in 1962. [Below] - A better look. Courtesy of the LaFond Family	Thunderplex.com One cannot truly appreciate what Wendell Scott accomplished without seeing his equipment.	Courtesy of the McCarty Family Tom McCarty at Stateline Speedway around 1951. He supplied some of the most beautiful color shots of that track ever. You can tell he is enjoying himself there.	Courtesy of Ron Hoffer Bob Hoffer [Argyle Racing Team, Argyle, NY] poses with 2 lovely ladies. Could be Mrs. Hoffer.	HAMB Website Jim Luke with Sam Smith's famous sedan. This is Riverside, Agawam, MA. Can't tell, can ya?	Bourgeois Family Beaver Dragon's first race car. He won the first race he was ever in. They ran blasting nitro from a quarry in the gas.
Courtesy of Otto Graham Little - known Lefty Quant, with a pretty nice - looking sportsman coupe. Contrast with his famous pit neighbor, Steve Danish, in the background.	Conde & Parry Site Don Wayman, the ultimate driver for hire, with Godfrey Wentzel's older 03. He and Irv Taylor shared this, the old Smith & Son Charland car, while Maynard Forrette drover Godfrey's newer sedan.	Courtesy of Don Rounds, Jr. Don Rounds drove this snazzy '37 Ford for years and years. It's still around, on the vintage car circuit. I always loved the car.	Conde & Parry Site Irv Taylor replaced Jack Farquhar in the Vince Barbuto car. This became the third number Vince used on the car. I was inducted into Weedsport with Irv, hence the soft spot on my part.	Ladabouche Photo Irish Ed Kelly got this car from Bob Hoffer. Neither did much with it; but the next driver did - it became the 00 of Vince Quenneville.	Ladabouche Collection The first car I ever saw on the track at Fonda was the Dick Bennett - owned Bernie's Liquor Shop 71. At the time, the driver was Lee Millington, of Palatine Bridge, NY.
Courtesy of Cho Lee Leave it to Jack Dubrul to show up at the races with something interesting.	Gordon Ross Collection via Dick Hansen Harvey Tattersall had his Grand American late model series. This was the Suffield Auto 5 which I think actually showed up at the Rutland Fair in 1963, still running.	Leb Valley Classics Around 1964 I chance photographed an obscure sportsman coupe hauling into Fonda. Turned out to be Hank LeClaire, apparent;ly related to Catamount's Hector LeClaire and the Valley's mini driver Shorty LeClaire. Recently I found the car being driven by Jack Farquhar, one of my favorite drivers.	Ladabouche Photo The chance photo.	Ed Baccei Photo The only time I ever got my friend to go to races, we saw some remarkable NASCAR sportsman starts at Otter Creek Speedway. Ed took this one of Bill Wimble, leaving.	Courtesy of Otto Graham The incredibly popular, but slow Willie Chest, from Canajoharie. Perhaps he inspired a young Dave Lape to try the sport.
Ladabouche Photo I caught my principal [and boss] checking out Tom Tiller's Mopar. Tom had briefly changed from #77 to 17, for some unknown reason.	Ladabouche Collection Vince Quenneville and Norm Scarborough bought Dexter Dorr's potent sportsman. This is Devil's Bowl and that is J.G. Chartrand in background. I always loved that Dorr car.	From HAMBNSIte Clayton Ryan bought a Don Miller car from Claremont. I am tempted to believe they had a contest to see who could make the car the ugliest. Veteran Dutch Reed was the driver. It did go !	Ladabouche Photo Remember when lots of cars showed up for racing in a dump truck ? I do. Carl Moore here.	Courtesy of the LaFond Family The fantastic show CJ Richards promoted at the 1962 Vermont State Fair was the last hurrah fro Ken "Pappy" Delong, [Car 5r4] of Whitehall, NY. He first won a heat and then was shaken up in a huge pileup on the opening laps of the feature. Courtesy of the LaFond Family	Courtesy of the LaFond Family Driver Ted Brown is among the crowd gawking at the remains of his 92NH sedan. Ted had to commandeer this flatbed, as he always stiff-hitched to races. The kid in front was right in style for 1962.
Dogfight Forum Photo A shot of the Bear Ridge Speedway when it was still one fifth mile [and mostly flatheads].	Frank Simek Photo Steve Danish enjoying a run with the go - karts during the karts' time of crazy popularity.	Lebanon Valley Classics Photo Floyd "Pop" Wilcox and his driver, Jerry Townley [cigar] share a happy moment with the wives at the Valley during the pair's best season there.	Bob Sweeten Photo via Russ Dodge It appears as though Parker Bohn has had a bird land on his hood in Victory Lane [it's actually his air deflector].	Don Hall Racing.com Northwesttern racing ace Dick Bown. His son, Chuck, came up here and raced with a big dollar operation on NASCAR North for a couple of seasons.	Cook Collection via Ted Bennett A very young Jerry Cook and a helper [maybe Ken Meahl] are "hard at work" on one of Jerry's first cars. He was probably 14 at the time.
John Grady Photo via Dave Dykes Jerry Humniston and the Garuti bunch, shown during frantic perpartions in the infield of Eastern States Expo race.	Devil's Bowl Program via Mike Richards CJ Richards [unusually pudgy at left] used to have some funny stuff in his programs.	MIchel Jacques Photo via Pascal Cote Rejean here has left church and taken the family car to Autodrome Ste Monique in Quebec still wearing his Sunday best. I wonder if maman knew.	Dave Dykes Photo Lenny Boehler and Bugs Stevens at the Permatex. A little less ratty than the usual Boehler car.	via Andy Boright Bob Dragon's DG Robertson six banger during the height of NASCAR North in 1985. Below - Shannon Tomasovich's Tiger at T Road around 2008. It was not tribute to Dragon, but rather to Ernie Barcomb's #71. Via Jean Gagne	Photo via Rich Palmer Catamount Stadium at the best time - before it was fully developed into a big - time deal but after its initial, simpler stage.