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This Page Will Feature Cars or People of Whom I Have No Good Photo - But They Appear in the Background of Someone Else's Shot

Ladabouche Photo The late Bucky Dragon and wife, Sandra at Fairmont after a race. In the background is the 26Jr. of the Rivers family, from Glens Falls, NY.	Frazier Photo Ed Baker's Hudson, from Warrensburg, NY. In the background is Herbie Swan's 23, from Panton, VT.	Ladabouche Photo Behind this photo of Al Rodd's car you can see the strange towing rig used by Gene Tetreault, the legend from Manchester Depot, VT.	Herbert Family Photo Behind this photo of Jeep Herbert is Gigi Conover's famous Jeep pickup at Fonda
Ladabouche Photo The Bill Fowler 27Jr. at Fairmont in 1965, with Jerry Pennock, Sr. as driver. In the background you can see a heat coming to the line. In this is a rare shot of Bill Threw's former #7A, now as X9, Bob Hoffer.	Ladabouche Photo The 107 of Norm Scarborough, driven then by Roger Gauthier. In the background is the first XK of Irish Ed Kelly from Granville, NY.	Courtesy of Mike Watts In the background of one of Andre Manny's shots is the #10 Rutland Tree Service car of Leo Vallaincourt. Mostly, you see #333 for Leo.	Andy Boright, Via TheOutside Groove In the background of Bernie Griffith's shot is the tandem hauler of John Rosati with his two cars he usually brought to the races in 1971.


Ladabouche Photo This shot of Ingerson's car shows the old Catamount water truck.	Rick Parry Photo This car, in the 1950's at some track in New York kinda makes one wonder: did he have the full support of Ruppert's Knickerbocker breweries or was that just his favorite beer?	Bill Ladabouche Collection If you look behind George Rettew's 21M, you see Richard Buzzi's first hurricane car - that would launch quite a good career.	Courtesy of Jim Watson In the back of Jack Anderson, you see both the old Chevron Station in the pits and Wayne Chandler's van, from which he retailed at Catamount for years.
Bill Ladabouche Photo If you look behind Joe Thomas' 37NY, you see George McRae's first Hurricane car [orange].	Courtesy of Bill Fifield If you look behind Skip Roots you see Tony Villano's unique tow truck.	Courtesy of Otto Graham This shot of an early Dick Clark entry shows a rare instance where Lazzaro brought two cars for the evening.	Ted Vogel Collection Behind Eddie Allen's first 33 you see a good shot of one of Devil's Bowl original Dare Devil cars running in the track surface.

Ladabouche Photo The 04 Ford Fairlane 500 from Hancock, VT. In the background is the owner, whose name I wish someone would inform - and former Catamount Tiger driver Ron Wells [left]	Courtesy of Neal Davis This pose with Sonny Rabideau shows Bud Wilder in the background. BW drove cars at Claremont for a while.	Courtesy of Rich Palmer This shot of Beaver Dragon in Victory Lane at Catamount in 1973 shows: John Merrick, closest to car; Randy Cary next right], Doug McLeod; & Peter B. Gibbard of WKDR.	Ladabouche Photo In a strange turn of events, Jean-Paul Cabana enters the pits with a tandem of two cars. He is meeting his old car [to the left] now owned by Ron Bettis]. This also shows the old Chevron gas station really well.

Ladabouche Photo Cecil Bosworth drove this Claremont car at Fairmont at least once. Note track announcer Bill Barsalow, Sr. checking it out.	Photo Courtesy of Terry LaFerriere This shot shows three important things, the most important of which is Ron Barcomb's dad, Herb [2nd from left]. It also shows Rene Maxfield's Tiger, which sometimes sported an ESSO Tiger on its roof - and the filling station from the rival Chevron.	Ladabouche Photo The 24 Sedan of Norm Scarborough, driven then by Russ Shaw. In the background is Clayton Ryan, a former CVRA car owner and father of Jack, who owns DIRT cars of the same number. There is also a connection to Jim Ryan.	Ladabouche Photo The 04 Grand American of Harry Rathburn yields a number of former Catamount drivers in the background: Brad Wright [Hurricane], blue shirt with white patches and blonde hair; Greg Lyman [Hurricane and Grand American] white T-shirt and afro]; Randy Chapin , [Crew chief for Joe Myers and others, the shorter guy with long hair]; and Joe Myers [Hurricane, GA, and Late Model], at right with striped shirt.
John Grady Photo This is Bill Wimble, in the infield at Fonda. The photo was mis-labeled as Buzzie Reutimann, due to their strong resemblance- at least when Wimble wore these glasses. In the background is former area car owner Theron von Benschoten, Richfield Springs, NY.	Russ Bergh Photo Ed Ortiz, an invader from Ransomville at Fonda who could gun down the local greats with his honkin', oil-guzzlin' B&M motor. Behind Ed [in glasses] is Tom Douglas, who went on to field those maroon #91's for Jack Johnson. To the right is Roger Gauthier's 12A.	Courtesy of Cho Lee In this Vince Q. photo, you see Lee Delphia [right] and Al Ryan [looking at Vince in black shirt]. =+	Otto Graham Site Jeep Herbert Henry Caputo 11 Note famed mechanic Willie Seamon in the background [hat & coveralls]
Bill Ladabouche Collection This shot of one of the Julius Mestyan #6's shows familiar Fairmont and D Bowl figure John Luleck [right]	Courtesy Phil Walbridge In this shot of Jim Gallison and car owner Gil Rhoades, we have another driver in the car. Anyone recognize him ?	Courtesy of Cho Lee This shot of Harold Hanaford and John Untied [ctr] also shows the seldom - photographed Spade Cooley, T Road co -owner.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Lennie Stockwell gestures at a wreck scene involving his #00. The man in the foreground may possibly be Dick Blake, of the Blake & Loso wrecker team.

Ladabouche Photo Chuck Ely's first race car sits in front of the old payoff booth at Fairmont Speedway. Ladabouche Photo In the long shadows of late afternoon, a group of Fairmont competitors line up for payoff.	Bob Frazier Photo Vern Hall's photo gives a good view of the front stretch at the old Fairmont track.	Ladabouche Photo Jean - Guy Chartrand shows up at Fonda on a gloomy Saturday afternoon in 1963. He hauled from Montreal just to find, as did we, that the show was cancelled. The shot shows Fonda's famous old ticket booth from the '60's.	Mike Cain Photo Russ Urlin carries the checkers after setting the final lap speed record at Catamount. In the background is the big scoreboard.
Courtesy of Dan Nolin Ronnie Marvin at Thunder Road. The background is a good picture of the pit entrance before the renovations.	Courtesy of Dan Nolin Jack Anderson has car full of kids at his Riverside Avenue shop. The building is now gone.	Source : Topaz Please Tell Me Your Name Locke's Falcon at Loudon. Check out the old course before NHIS	Andy Boright This shot of Rosati and Ingerson cars shows the old concession setup at T Road.
Danish Family Photo This shot of a heat going into Turn One at Fonda shows the famous "Checker Board stand", where Russ Bergh and his assistant, Otto [Page?] worked in the '60's at Fonda.	Arnie Ainsworth Photo This shot of Corey with the Studebaker shows Fonda's famous Cow Palace, on the fairgrounds.	Danish Family Photo Apparently a heat going into Turn 1 at Fonda [because it is too light for feature time]. This shows a lot of the old Fonda layout.	Photo from Gilbert Family In the background of this 1968 Mick Wilcox photo at Catamount is the track's infamous treehouse.