Hey Shadowracer: Did your dad sell his car to Ike Henry?
That looks like the car, Ike had, when I started helping him. Before we went to the Vega bodies.
I grew up around Hank Jamieson's Supermodified before that. I worked at Delaware from 1970 - 75.
Hey Shadowracer: Did your dad sell his car to Ike Henry?
That looks like the car, Ike had, when I started helping him. Before we went to the Vega bodies.
I grew up around Hank Jamieson's Supermodified before that. I worked at Delaware from 1970 - 75.
A HA! We got a bingo. 😉
Yep, that car sported a vega body for a couple years after that. I beleive Ike got his number 60 by simply putting a 0 after the 6. It spent a few years afterward looking like this:
Yeah we did some strange stuff with that straight axle, in that banana car. Got wild with the wheelbase. Ike put it in the fence pretty hard in turn 3 at Delaware. Not sure what happened to it.
Gord ( Fuzz ) Hawking built Ike's Vega with Central Chev as the sponsor. Ike won a lot once Fuzz came on board. Fuzz was like Einstein, a genius.
Gord Hawking Built that car. That chassis was a copy of Ed Howes late model. We copied a car Ken Johnston had bought from Ed. Fuzz had built Ken's #24 1968 Camaro he battled Ken MacKilroy"s #4 Mustang with, in the limited late models at Delaware and Nilestown. Thanks for sharing the picture, it sure takes me back. I had smashed up Ike's car the year before and that one replaced it. That one was gold and was in 1978, in 1977 we had a half blue/half white one. Before that we had white cars.
In '77 Ike wanted white, Fuzz wanted blue, so they split it down the middle. From the infield we always saw a white car. The fans saw a blue car going down the front stretch and a white one going down the back stretch. That car was evil! The throttle stuck, first night out and Ike put it in the turn 1 fence backward. The next week there was a crash on the back straight. Ike made it all the way through but got hit in the back and spun into fence. We got wrecked 7 weeks in a row, before I tried to knock down the wall at Cayuga.
Gord Hawking Built that car. That chassis was a copy of Ed Howes late model. We copied a car Ken Johnston had bought from Ed. Fuzz had built Ken's #24 1968 Camaro he battled Ken MacKilroy"s #4 Mustang with, in the limited late models at Delaware and Nilestown. Thanks for sharing the picture, it sure takes me back. I had smashed up Ike's car the year before and that one replaced it. That one was gold and was in 1978, in 1977 we had a half blue/half white one. Before that we had white cars. In '77 Ike wanted white, Fuzz wanted blue, so they split it down the middle. From the infield we always saw I white car. The fans saw a blue car going down the front stretch and a white one going down the back stretch.
Thats funny, I only remember the white...but bear in mind I would have only been 6 or 7 years old at the time. I had a program with a photo of the white car...but then all the photos were taken from the infield...so it could very well have been blue on the other side.
This above photo I came across just recently is from Cayuga...I just assumed it was still Dad's underneath.