Here is a video of some early 1970's racing
Ron Melson, Laurie Melson, Peter de Vries and Dave Melson all family are in the video
look how much the tracks have changed
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Some great memories in there.
Most pics are from the 1972 and 1973 seasons at Sunset and Barrie but there is one shot of Bev Bye's #90 Pontiac Diamond at Sutton (in 1970 I believe) with Ron Melson and "Uncle" Lloyd Reynolds flanking Bev in front of the car. A few years later a youthful Garry Reynolds would take on the number 90 for 4 Barrie titles and in recent years it was used by brother Kevin.
In the pic of Peter DeVries #90 still in Ray Berdan's yellow and black colours you can see in the background my dad's old yellow Ford pickup by the pit shed that he sold Hoosier tires out of.
The orange #5 Chevy Nova on the track at Sunset is Jerry Crawford who was the 1972 Barrie Hooligan champ.
You can also see the Sunset Superbird pace car painted in the gold of point fund sponsor Labatt's in a couple of the pictures.
I read somewhere on the internet about the Superbird... I heard Jackson's had that car and it had not been sold by like 1972 or something so it became the pace car for Sunset. Pretty amazing start for a car that is now worth probably $50,000 or more...
My dad used to take photo's for Barrie Speedway, when I was at his place last we looked for the negatives, he used to have thousands of them, but these were all we could find.
My dad used to take photo's for Barrie Speedway, when I was at his place last we looked for the negatives, he used to have thousands of them, but these were all we could find.
That's too bad Dave I'm sure Statsman would like to see some of those pictures I'm sure.
