Some other modified greats that made appearances during the NEARA era...

Jim Shampine, George Kent, Sonny Seamon, Dave Lee, Ron Bouchard, Satch Worley

How about Maynard Troyer ??  His cars always looked like show cars beautiful looking machines and fast too !

I remember Maynard having engine trouble and borrowing an intake and carb from a  ottawa drag racer one night.

Jimmy Shampine...wow the innovator turned the supermod world upside down with the radical off set roadster...then just as guys caught up with Jimmy  he builds the rear engine off set car. It only ran for a season until Oswego banned the machine.

George Kent "the Duke"  as he's known still races in NY state.

Dave Lee ...I remember him practising the modified at Capital City but never saw him race the car at Capital City.

Dave did show up at Oswego a few times running the modified.

How about Lee Osborne ...He got me hooked on racing by letting me sit in his car after the races one night I was 8yrs old back then. (lol)

Lee went on to run with the World of Outlaws then retired and is building street rods for a living.