TAFC history project...

Heres one

Remember Stan Sipos? Came from Canada, ran VERY well, crashed at the Keystones and disappeared.

 

two more div.1 cars
Joe Shubert - "Midnight Express" Datsun 280Z
Carl Ruth - "Pet Vette" Corvette

 

80's FC pics

Heres a few I dug out of a box in the basement from 1980 and 1983 all were taken at New England Dragway in NH and have never been posted anywhere before. I know the drivers of the first four. Thank KathyL at the Funny Car Connection for hosting them for me!
http://www.kathyl.com/BostonStrangler1980.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/BellBoys.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/BobNewberry.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/MotownShaker-11980.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/ScarletFever1983.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/YankeeDoodle1983.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/MacAttack19831.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/FlyNHigh1983.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/NEDFCNats.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/nedfcnats1.jpg
http://www.kathyl.com/NEDMay1983.jpg
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Awesome, I remember being there with Dad all those years ago!

 

John Speelmen

Summet Hill Terf Farms


Blue By You or some spelllng like that (Linda Ronstatt?) It had a horse jumping painted on the rear window. I remimber it from 75\80

 

blue by you was john speelman. he later put nitro in the tank if i remember right. len cottrell could tell more on that one. the two ran together for many years with a dragster. the infamous "chicken chokers".

 

Bad Moon Rising driver

Chuck Phelps

 

OK fokes heres the deal. I need some help. My finance, Melissa, is working on a scrap book for me. It was supposed to be for this christmas...well it might make it by next christmas. Anyway she needs some help. She needs pictures and stories. Anything you can remember about my father and the Bell Boys or our years with Craig Gleason (1994 to 1998) stories and pictures. You can e-mail her at melobell2b@aol.com

Thanks
Nick

 

Shenandoah pics

Does anyone have any action or stills of my fathers Shenandoah BB/FC ??

 

Charley Byers Was - Make My Day He was a div 4 car. I remember he went out to pomona an won the finals. His crew chief was Artie Lund. He painted a car for us & Bobby Mariott. His painter name was Spook.
I also remember Stan Sipos crashing in Houston. They interviewed him and he said he was just a passenger on a fast bus ride.Davenport tuned his car.

 

What about Paul Albers from Oklahoma. I think his car was Risky Business.
The Enforcer Was that Paul Gordon?

 

Hi guys and gals. Happy holidays. Thanks for the plugs above... appreciate it. I do want to ask all the alky and injected nitro teams and fans to check out what we have on draglist.com to ensure what we have is right and complete. We have all the cars you mentioned above, but we want to make sure we have best times, body styles, chassis builders, etc. for every year they ran. It's a huge job and we finally have the Draglist set up so that other folks can help if they want. Anybody who visits can edit any entry on the list and a great new feature is that folks can add a photo to any entry on the list. Please check out what we have so far and jump in with an edit or a photo. We keep track of everyone who contributes and we're looking to increase our staff by hundreds!

Here is the link to see what we have on alky FCs so far. We are FAR from complete... so tear it up!

http://www.digitalwebzone.com/draglist/draglist.php?x=funnycars

 

All my cars were named "Grim Reeper" (like my last name) except for the following:
**Monza Funny Car purchased in 1979 from the late Gordon Mineo named "Flash Gordon". My partner, Jack Findley campaigned this car under the name of "Blown Glass".
**Monza Funny Car partnered with the late crazy, Carl Stone from 1981 named "Stoned Reeper".

 

more rides

Crazy Bear Vega King & Marshall
Fireball Monza Future Force
Peace n Quiet Eastern Raider
US Male Warlock
Pak Rat Cotton Pony
Perillo & Cerrone Shenandoah, my dad Harry
Jersey Stud
Bob Chipper
Swenson and Lani
Boston Shaker
Entertainer

The Weekend Warrior was Walt Weney, S&W race cars.
I could go on and on...I may only be 35, but I spent EVERY weekend at so many Div 1 tracks with my extended family of Frank and Debbie Schuster, Russ Freda, my dad's partner and long time friend Kevin Manley, and my twin brother Ken, mom and dad. Now that we have listed so many cars, try some tracks.

Capitol Raceway
Atco
Englishtown+
75-80
Aquasco
Numedia
Maple Grove
Vargo
York US 30

 

Noth West

Time Travler Lynn Redemen Vans Funny Car Burnin Bob Gilbertson Kenny Godell Steve Mcgee Jerry Hill Walt Austin Roger Orr Hank Johnson Gentleman

 

More Div. 1 Floppers

Harry Hall "Shenandoah"
Albers & Minick "Las Vega"
Bob Chipper
Bunny Burkett "Cotton Pony"
Carol Henson
Bob Dalton
Antone Adesso "Pig Pen"
Pete Brozene "Satans Toy"
Bruce Pillar "Jersey Stud"
Tommy Mussellman
Marc Brinkley "Total Chaos"
Kenny Spurlin "Penny Pincher"
Jonh Paris "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Dennis ?? "Scarlet Fever"
Gene Altizer

 

Harry Hall

My father ran a couple National events, only because of the match race "Requirements" Also ran the Coca Cola Funny car race at Maple grove,,got to the Semi's against long time friend Frank Manzo both ran Identical 6.76 et's at over 200 but that darned old "Foot Clutch" in Manzo's car left first compared to our "Crower Glide" But it was a great day for the team !!

 

ladies and gentle man , boy and girls ,children of all ages.......... it's ken hall! (in the background you can hear the crowd cheering) .
sorry ken i just couldn't resist did you know the name of gene altizer's car, "the pack rat". i bet you didn't know that he is my uncle. take care.

 

Bedrosian is the name that you were looking for.

 

Class is in session

Here is a list of cars driven by Ronnie Midyette:
-Ronnie Midyette's "Prospector"
-Leroy Worley's "Weekend warrior"
-Lee Pappas' "Lee Pappas Racing"
-Larry McBride's "Starr Rider"
-John Holmes' "John Holmes Racing"
-Ron Gilbert's "Funny Feelin"
-Butch Kernodle's "All American"
-Kirk MeKesson's "Captain Kirk"
-Willie Lawrence's "Freedom Racing"
-Ryan Bryant's "Midyette Racing"
-Kevin and Wendy Sims' "K&W Racing"
And heres some more names for the overall list:
-Ernest Wrenn's "Flyin Circus"
-Steve Leach's "Flamin Arrow"
-Bobby Fastnaut's "QuarterFlash"
-Carl Ruth's "Pet Vette"
-Don Defluiter's "Megaforce"
-Jerry Gulley's "Southern Star"
-Clay Broadwater's "North Star"
-Mac King's "Quiksilver"
-Chuck Worsham and Art Hendy's "Tinker Toy"
-Winston Cherry and Paul Hall's "Tasmanian Devil"