THEN...... AND NOW

What Prominent Racing People Looked Like Younger..and Older

 

           

 

Ernie Gahan

Irv Taylor

Wes Moody

Ron Barcomb

Dave Lape

Ken Squier

Johnny Gammell

Dick Nephew

Brian Ross

Norm Chaloux

Rene Charland

Bob Dragon

Harold Hanaford

Bill Wimble

Hully Bunn

Lloyd Hutchins

Jackie Peterson

Gardiner Leavitt


 


Acquired From HAMB Website
Ernie Gahan, in the late 1950's, with a young admirer
in Victory Lane at an unidentified track.
 


Ladabouche Photo
Ernie Gahan, in the mid 2000's, at one of
Ronnie Bouchard's vintage meets.

Acquired From Steve McKnight
Ronnie "Red Dog" Barcomb, barely
20 years old, at Catamount.
 

Source Unknown
Barcomb, in 2007, at the Milk Bowl - being
interviewed by Ken Squier as a past winner.

Ken Paulsen Photo
Johnny Gammell, in 1952, at the Webster Flats race track
with his second of many race cars.
 

Source Unknown
Gammel, in 2007, at the Milk Bowl - being
interviewed by Ken Squier as a past winner.

Ken Paulsen Photo
A young Norm Chaloux, at Malletts Bay Raceway with Ralph
Bushey apparently not long after a bad crash he had at the Dog
River track in Northfield.
 

Ladabouche Photo
Norm Chaloux [right], with Lloyd Hutchins and Harold
Hanaford at the 2005 Barre Old Home Days vintage meet.

Courtesy of Scott Haskell
Harold
Harold Hanaford at the Franklin Motordrome, with his very
first car, the former George Hodgdon entry.


Courtesy of Cho Lee

Car restorer extraordinaire, Lloyd Hutchins [left], back
in the 1950's as victorious owner of Leland Ingerson's
car.

Ladabouche Photo
Harold Hanaford [center] at the 2005 Barre Old Home Days vintage meet.



Ladabouche Photo
Lloyd, with an autographed tire off one of his restored
flathead stock cars he displays annually.
   

Courtesy of Jo Towns, via Otto Graham
Irv Taylor, in the Bennett 71, in the 1950's.

Roxanne Ladabouche Photo
Irv Taylor [center] with me and Dave Lape - at the
2011 DIRT HOF induction ceremonies.
 

Ladabouche Photo Collection

Dave Lape - at Victoria Speedway - with his first stock car,
in the mid 1960's. Lord, Dave - you had hair !

Roxanne Ladabouche Photo
Irv Taylor [center] with me and Dave Lape - at the
2011 DIRT HOF induction ceremonies.
 

Nephew Family Photo
Dick Nephew, around 1955, with one of his
first cars.
 
 


Courtesy of Wes Moody
Nephew, in hid 50's at Airborne in 1984. His return to racing netted him at least three wins that season.


Keene Sentinel Photo - Ladabouche Collection
Rene Charland, as a young driver still living in
Holyoke, MA, receiving a trophy from the
MSCRA at Cheshire Fairgrounds.

 

Courtesy of  Hemmings Site
Charland, well into retirement, with Val LeSieur and Punky Caron.

Courtesy of John Grady
Bill Wimble, with Hal Kempeny's 113 at Fonda in the '50's.

Norty Foster Photo
Bill Wimble, with me - comparing books
at Airborne in 2010
 

Peterson Family Photo
Jackie Peterson, in 1957, with his V-1 car that toured the Northeast and Quebec.
 

Ladabouche Photo
Jackie, at age 89, building another sprinter
at his home - in 2011.
 

Moody Family Photo
A young Wes "Slugger" Moody, with crewman
Bobby Eckert, at Saranac Lake Speedway.
 

JZ Photo
Wes, with yours truly, in his hauler, in 2010.

Courtesy of James Howard
A very young Ken Squier, awarding a plaque to someone
at the Cheshire Fairgrounds race track in the '50's.
 

ACT File Photo
Squier, in the early 2000's, with Beaver Dragon.

Courtesy of CJ Richards
Young Brian Ross with one of his
first modified cars.
 

Steve McKnight Photo
Brian, at Airborne in 2011 with yours truly.

Dragon Family Photo
Bobby Dragon, with an early Flying Tiger
Division trophy at Catamount.

Sheila Somers Photo
The Twenty - First Century version.
   

Vintage Modifieds.Com Photo
Hully Bunn, with "X" car owner
John Melnick in 1952.

 

Vintage Modifieds.Com Photo
Hully Bunn, with his midget - driving into his 80's.

Herbert Family Photo
Howard "Jeep" Herbert, early shot.
 

Robert lansing Photo
Jeep, around 2006.

MaineVintage Racing.Com Photo
Gardiner Leavitt, with his B Class Coupe
around the late 1950's or early '60's.

 

ACT Photo
Gardiner, in the mid 2000's
receiving a lifetime
achievement award.
   

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