That was the night the Flamboro Challenger club was at Varney. The  Nagy / Velenosi feud got alittle carried away that nite. In fact back in Hamilton the next week, The Nagy's returned to their car lot to find 20 or so flat tires. Never found the person.
The one season when I first started racing an had no clue about changing stuff, I ran the whole season with drum brakes on the front. The last half of every feature I was having to pump the pedal 3 times just to get something when I hit the corners. I was actually leading the points for awhile till I blew 2 trannies in 2 weeks and blew a brake line another. Finished 6th at the end.
The funniest was when there would be a caution, the corner track workers would be there and the "home town guys" would pull up and they would ask if their fender and tire were ok. They would yell it was ok and even pull on the fender to clear the tire. Us "out of towners" they would look at us and just shrug....lolol. Tom Donnelly was running the track then, super nice guy, always thanked everyone for coming. The second nite he came over and couldn't believe I drove from Hamilton to race there , so he would always give me a $20 gas voucher everyweek in my payoff for towing there each week.
I had $500 bucks in that car, raced Flamboro Saturday nights, towed to Varney on Sunday afternoons, all by myself, no crew and actually made money racing for 2 years. Some of my most fun racing.

Good stories guys. Sounds like I have to go check it out.

I made my first trip to Varney for an endurance race in 1986 and liked it enough to call it home for the next 20 years.Saw a lot of changes,different promoters,got some championships,got married on the track in '91 and ran in most regular classes that have been there since my first time there.
I agree that Tom Donnelly was a nice guy and great promoter,a real people person and knew how to keep the racing affordable.
The years have taken it's toll on the track surface which is mostly original from 1970 with the exception of most of turn 1-2 and the widening of the front and back straightaways but if it was repaved or reconfigured it just would't be the same.
I have been to a lot of tracks around Ontario and have never seen one that could equal the "one big family" atmosphere that Varney speedway has in the pits.I also don't remember a track that had a lower admission price for the grandstands.
If you haven't been there give it a try if you can,I think you'll like it.

I'm not familiar with the pit atmosphere at Varney, but I'd say that Grand Bend could be a challenger for the "one big family" atmosphere. I can't remember the last time I saw someone wreck at GBS, and not have at least 12 people offer some kind of help, from several divisions.

I was going to say, but the last post was getting long, that last year taking my daughter to race her mini stock at Grandbend on a Sunday afternoon a couple of weekends, after Saturday nite racing Flamboro, sure reminded me of those days. Grandbend is a great little track, wish it was oval myself, but we all have to race the same shape. Love the atomosphere and the fact everyone sits in the same grandstand makes it great for families. Hope to make somemore Sundays there this year, but nothing beats the fans doing the "Varney Shuffle" and meeting a new friend! LOL.