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#3820 - "As if his [Chevy/Harley] contraption wasn't crazy enough, E.J Potter would rev the bike up on the rear stand before rocking it off and rocketing up the asphalt in spectacular, smokey, crowd-pleasing fashion. For this he was typically paid $1 per mile per hour over 100 mph. He eventually got the 'Widowmaker' up to 160 mph." From HOT ROD MAVERICKS: The Builders, Racers, and Rebels Who Revolutionized Hot Rodding, by Tony Thacker. (Motor Trend Group/Petersen Automotive Museum Archive)

#3819 - Sammy Swindell had just scored $27,000 from the Syracuse SuperNationals and then it was $65,000 at North Texas Speedway from some noticeably pleasing attendants. He managed half a smile. From SAMMY: 50+ Years of Winning, as told to Bones Bourcier. (Paul Arch Photo)

#3818 - When core crewman Mike Hayslett read the draft of "Barefoot Bob" McCreadie’s book, he commented, "I like what Bob has to say in this chapter. I don't think Brett (Hearne's) gonna like it. But, hey, in a couple of years, Brett can have his own book and get even." From BAREFOOT: The Autobiography of Bob McCreadie, as told to Andy Fusco.

#3817 - It was May of 1973, and Bentley Warren was doing his best at Indy in his undernourished, five-year-old Eagle. He commented, "I'll tell you how outclassed we were in relation to the top cars. To adjust the boost on those Offy engines, you had to loosen a lock nut and turn a bolt on the waste gate. We were so afraid of blowing up our engine that we'd add boost a tiny bit at a time, maybe three-quarters of a turn on that bolt. Well, I watched Bobby Unser's team add boost in the qualifying line. Their engine man loosened the lock nut, put a speed wrench on that bolt, and just cranked away. My eyes must have been as big as watermelons. I could not believe what I was seeing. Big boost means big speed. Bobby broke the track record by nearly 18 miles per hour. Most of that was due to his sleek Eagle, but the engine didn't hurt." From WICKED FAST: Racing Through Life with Bentley Warren, as told to Bones Bourcier. (IMS Archive Photo)

#3816 - Bob Potter at Connecticut's New London Waterford Speedbowl: "I remember one time I was leading a race down the Speedbowl years ago. They had a wreck and they threw the red flag. You could get out of your car, so me and my buddy, we're both outside our cars shooting the breeze. I started laughing... 'It sounds like somebody's tire going down.' Come to find out it was my right rear... So my buddy, Jerry Glaude, he chews gum, so I says, 'Got any gum?...I took the gum, put it on that hole - you could see it, it was small. We backed the car up so we set right it on the gum. And it didn’t leak no more. I could finish the race and ended up winning!" Quote and Photo from MODIFIED STOCK CAR RACING of the ’60s and ’70s, by Steve Kennedy. (Steve Kennedy Photo)

#3815 - Martinsville November 2022. "Ross Chastain came up with what is now called 'Hail Melon' - a nod to his family’s watermelon farming business - by jamming his Chevrolet into the wall and simultaneously mashing the gas. That combo enabled the Chevy to turn a lap faster than the track's pole qualifying record. Chastain made up five spots to make the final four." Quote and Photo from NASCAR MAVERICKS, by H. A. Branham and Holly Cain. (Stacey Revere/Getty Images)

#3814 - "Having witnessed several veteran drivers be killed or badly injured in fiery racing accidents, Len [Sutton] decided to hang up his helmet in the middle of the 1965 season. He went on to work for several racing equipment companies and to be a radio announcer at the Indy 500 for several years. As in the case of many great racers, Len's failure to win the Indy 500 doomed this highly talented and accomplished man to undeserved obscurity." Quote and Photo from SECOND TO ONE: All but for INDY, by Joe Freeman and Gordon Kirby (RMA/Knox Photo)

#3813 - Rick Standridge's most impressive fly-over at Illinois' Shepp's Speedway in 2008. His wife, Joyce, said, "Rick had a broken sternum and broken ribs. He (and I) spent the night at St. John's Hospital in Springfield (IL) but not for those injuries. The nurses couldn't get his asthma under control." Quote and Photo from FOUR AND MORE: The Standridge Brothers – Big Wins, Big Wrecks, Big Fun, by Joyce Standridge. (Jim Jones, Double J Photo)

#3812 - A very rare image of the horrendous inferno at the first National Open at Langhorne in 1951. "Wreckage from Don Black's car is strewn across the track, with Wally Campbell's machine (far right) in flames. Dick Linder's V2 is involved with several other cars partially obscured by smoke. Miraculously, only Black was seriously injured in the fiery accident." Caption and photo from LANGHORNE No Man’s Land, by Spencer Riggs. (Photo Theresa Campbell Collection)

#3811 - We were very sorry to lose our friend, the great Ed Pink this week. Coaxed on by his buddy Jim Busby, Ed entered the sports car world in 1986 reworking Porsche factory engines. Ed would later comment, "I don’t know if 'haul ass' translates directly into German. But that’s what we did." Quote and photo from ED PINK: The Old Master, by Ed Pink with Bones Bourcier. (Ed Pink Collection)

#3810 - The much-admired Jimmy Caruthers, 1975 USAC Midget Champion, pictured here posing with his championship-winning Pizza Hut Silver Crown car and his crew. From left to right, Skip Wiese, owner and sponsor George Middleton, Walt Krueger, Wayne Lee, Joe Johnson, and Chief Mechanic Larry Griffiths. Jimmy competed in the 1975 USAC Silver Crown season while suffering from cancer and managed a third place in the last race in September during the Hoosier 100. It earned him the championship. Sadly, he passed away six weeks later at the age of 30. (Photo and a caption by Don Figler)

#3808 - The Nutley (NJ) Veladrome was built for bicycle racing in 1933. It was something to behold – a 1/7-mile boarded oval saucer banked at an incredible 45 degrees, seating 12,000. When interest in the two-wheelers declined, into town came the AAA Midgets in 1938, offering up insanely dangerous, high-octane spectacles. Here Duane Carter and Paul Russo test destiny. After three fatalities in two years, county voters shut it all down. (Photo from HARD DRIVING MEN: Images of Speed 1895-1960, by Dick Wallen. (Dick Wallen Collection)

#3807 - Oh My! (Photo from Speedway Illustrated May 2025)

#3806 - "Since 1974, Goodyear's wet-weather tyres have enabled drivers to lap at very high speeds, even when tracks are soaking wet. At practice at Monaco, Emerson Fittipaldi put Goodyear "wets" through their paces." Quote and photo from Autocourse 1977, Mike Kettewell, editor. (Richard Poulter Photo)

#3804 - "January 11, 1937, and they were preparing and fueling George Eyston's Thunderbolt for another attempt at the land speed record. He eventually set the record at 357.5 in 1938." From HOT ROD MAVERICKS: The Builders, Racers, and Rebels who Revolutionized Hot Rodding, by Tony Thacker. (Keystone France Photo)

#3803 - Ray Spognardi, Richie Evans' friend and crewman: "I saw what Richie did at Daytona. He adapted to that place so fast it was scary. We’d get there, and before he'd go out for first warmups he’d be as nervous as anyone else. I mean, it’s Daytona. His temples would be twitching. He'd go out for a few laps, and when he got back in, he’d still be the same way, high-strung. But after he went out the second time, he’d be as relaxed as if we were running at some half mile. That used to amaze me." Quote and Photo from RICHIE: The Fast Life and Times of NASCAR’s Greatest Modified Driver, by Bones Bourcier. (Ray's Racing Photo, Lynn Evans Collection)

#3802 - Mario and Michael. From MARIO ANDRETTI, by Bernard Asset. (Bernard Asset Photos)

#3801 - Dario Franchitti: "The most telling endorsement of Dan Gurney comes from the funeral of his sparring partner Jim Clark in 1988. Jim’s father took him to one side and confided to him that he was the only driver his son feared on the track." Quote and Photo from ROMANCE OF RACING, by Dario Franchitti. (Bernard Cahier Photo)

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