Any you guys remember Roger England of Columbus, IN
 

Roger, let me scan in about half of his scrapbook. Most of the photos are of his Sox and Martin prepared 70 Hemi Cuda. Enjoy
http://s1231.photobucket.com/albums/...ger%20England/
Ernie Neal
SS 3400

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Ernie thanks to you and Roger for letting us go back in time when I now realize how much fun we had racing back then. Odie Isom from Greenwood Indiana used take me with him when he went racing and I loved every minute of it. I also remember a guy from Osgood Indiana that raced a Hemi Cuda but I dont remember his name.

Jerry Terry

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Jerry
I think that may have been Bill Schmaltz out of Osgood. I believe his was an A automatic car. Bill later bought the Harold Stout SS/Am firebird.
I wasn't sure about my link, whether anyone found it.
Ernie

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Ernie,

Anyone that was around 35-40 years ago would surely remember Roger England. That SS/DA car was wicked fast and cool. It was always neat when he and Bob Williams "Double Trouble" Chevelle would tangle.

I even remember him bringing that car down here to Brown County a handful of times to take on the locals. Occasionally took trips down to Columbus to go to his Sunoco station (where the Burger King is now), just to see the car.

Robert Swartz

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I remember Roger England, one of the first cars i seen use magnet decals on there cars.
Ernie, Schmaltz bought the Eddie Schartman 68 SS/AH Dart and it never did come out.

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Thanks, Ernie, for posting Roger's stuff. SS/DA was one of the toughest super stock classes at that time . I remember Boitnott bros., Cook bros., Chuck Little, and lots more in our local area. Seems there were about 20 or so cars at Indy in 72 when Roger won if I remember correctly. Bob Michael.

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I used to run occasionally with Gary Ragsdale when he bought Odie's tan Q/SA Wagon, seems like it was a 396/325 car wasn't it?

He used to tow that thing around with a really nice 70 Chevelle SS 454 car.
I remember it rolling forward and putting a dent in the Chevelle's bumper with the tow bar at Brown County.

Always thought it looked bass ackwards, a sweet Chevelle flat towing a huge wagon...
Of course I know somebody that towed his 67 Mustang with a Pinto too.. :)

Good days indeed

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Ernie your right his name was smaltz is he still around? Tod odors wagon was a396/265 2 barrel Carb q/sa

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Out of curiosity, what is the history of the Duster in his album?

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Jerry,

There are still a lot of Schmaltzs' in the area, but I didn't move done here till the 1989 so I am not sure which one it was.

Now that your jar my memory, it was a two barrel

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Roger still doing Ok? He and Billy Smaltz ran at the old Bluegrass many times thru the years.
Bob Michael, I remember your Pontiacs at Bluegrass several times also.
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Todd, Gary Ragsdale still has the chevelle. He shows up at the Suds on Saturday nights once in awhile. Tom

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I actually ran into Gary last summer, he said he still had it. I had a shot at it before he got it, it belonged to the son of one of my dad's drivers that did a lot of trans work He did the T350 in my 67 Camaro... danged if I can remeber his name

Gary had a 73-74 Chevelle pror to the 70, it was HUGE and heavy. It was a rare 454 four speed car. Driveshaft retention was a problem lol

The kid Gary sold it to drove it off the big hill in front of my parents house there on Fry road.

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Thanks , Bluegrass X for the post. Those were some fantastic times for racing locally! The 3 tracks around the area would all run classes and have a huge spectator turnout for the bigger money meets. I guess the spectators morphed into bracket racers thinking class was too much effort and expense. Bob Michael

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Thanks for the great pictures!

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What a great collection of pictures. Thanks for posting them.

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WOW! Bob Michael sending e-mail smoke signals from his tepee in Lebanon, Ohio. LOL

Here's a couple of pictures of Mr. Michael back in the day.

BTW you won't find a better ambassador for Class Racing than Bob.

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Thanks, Steve. Many moons have passed over the great prairie since the fun days and I can't wait for the snow to melt off the tepee so we can get back out there! To continue with the gushing, Steve works harder on his car than anyone I know of in class racing. Beautiful well prepared and he even keeps it somewhat clean! Bob M.

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Bob, any other local guys on here who may have run at Bluegrass? I just had a 30 year reunion for the old track. First one since the track closed in 1981.

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Rogers car was great. I enjoyed running with Dewey Cook, Roger, Bob and others at Edgewater.Dallas Kelly was there too. I ran my 69 Chevelle wagon. I could not go a quick as Bill Hanes in Michigan with the 350 combination but I was very competitive locally. That was fun week end racing. Who was the big guy from Greenwood Ind with the Hemi car?, Red hair, Beard.
Just remembered Danny Crawley!

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Bob, Glad to hear you're above ground. The last time I saw you was at I believe the Gators in 79. You were with Loyd (spell?) Robinson and there was a fellow with you that said he could pi$$ over a school bus. Please tell me I didn't dream that up,I am starting to get a little foggy, it comes with Social Security checks. :-) -----Damn fast Pontiacs--------Danny

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Hi Danny! See that you're living in Fla. and enjoying the sun! That guy who was with us back then may have been Tom Krecskay. I remember hanging out at Englishtown one weekend with you and .some other guys. my memory is foggy as well! Lloyd still lives around here but has quit racing. Bob michael

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I will ask my dad tomorrow, but I think my dad built Roger and E Body car around 76ish.

Herb Jr

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Thanks Bob, Glad to know I didn't dream it up. If you tell a lie long enough you start believing it yourself.:-) Take care and say hello to Lloyd for me.---------Danny

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I think your talking about Danny Crawley from Ind.

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The original Cuda was traded with Dale Meers from Buffallo KY for the Duster. It was Shay Nichols Por Stock car, she has quite a history as well as the car. I believe her ride in that car made her the first female in Pro Stock.
That car was traded within a year for the red white & blue Cuda, which was Ronald Lyles' Pro stock car. That car was the first Sox&Martin pro stock Cuda that Ronnie won a bunch of races in, then they built a new car in '71 and sold the original '70 car to Lyles.

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What ever happened to the old Ford Highboy that your dad had at your house back then. I remember him showing it to us and telling us he had to let the air out of the tires to get it under the garage door....
BTW - I believe it was '75. I got out of school to go w/dad get the car, it was not done, so I got to work at Herb's shop for a couple weeks while it was finished.
I still remember, Herb had me painting the cage, and his quote was "It the car runs as fast as the paint, we got it made!"

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If I recall correctly, Shay Nichols first ran an original ZL-1 Camaro in Pro Stock, followed by a Challenger, and then the Duster. She and Shirley Shahan were among several women in Pro Stock in the early '70's but Shay was likely the most active female driver. There was a feature on the Duster in DRUSA or SS&DI back in the day.

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He sold the Ford, I think it was a 1925 model. And yes I have heard that quote many times throughout my life, there are a few more my dad has but I'm not sure I can put them on here. HAHA


Herb JR

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RogerD, when will mom and dad return from Florida? I thought he might have a few things to say on here.
Ernie Neal
SS3400

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Thanks! Do you remember who ended up with the Duster?

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I know it was here in Nicholasville, KY for awhile and IM thinking the Bibelhouser Bros from Louisville had it after that..
Just checked photos and Biblehouser Bros car was a Demon.

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I haven't seen Roger in years. The is a Burger King where His Sunoco station was. Herb McCandless redone His rear suspension and wheel openings were tweaked. Odie ran a chevy wagon at one time. Blue or green. He ran at Bean Blossom quite a bit.

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Double Trouble was a blue 70 chevelle if I remember right. Blue, big block car with a mile of front end lift. Kinda like the Truppi and King car.

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Danny worked at the dodge dealer on the south side of Indy, south of the White Castle on st rd 31.

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Last time I seen Roger England was in the mid 90's. He was working at Atterbury Job Corp. Roger had a 70 or 71 hurst olds convertible stashed away back r\then.

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I think Earnie Neal has built more ran cars than anyone alive. When I worked at the Chev/buick/olds/pont dealer in North Vernon Indiana Earnies 84 Camaro sat on our showroom floor. I don't remember the class but johnnies muffler helped him build some headers (I think).

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Thanks Dave, You are right about my 86 Camaro Ed Calloway put that car on the show room for a couple of months back in winter 86. It ran the SS/CS class as did my previous Chevy II.

Todd at Johnny's helped with building those front exit headers.

Since this post came back up it reminded me that I have only scanned in half of Roger's scrap book. Time permitting I'll try to finish that scanning this winter and add them on.

Roger still goes to the nationals, I didn't see him there this year, but stopped by prior to and He said Friday He was coming up.

My son David has been sporting the 2005 Sunfire in GT/C at some points meets and Indy twice now. He is also quite a car builder, too. He was all excited with it going 9.27 at 1600' last weekend.

Ernie Neal
SS 354

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Bob, a friend of mine owns LLoyds old '74 SD455 Firebird. Races it around here locally and some with the UMTR. Other than the engine & trans the car looks very much like it did when LLoyd last ran it.

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We ran at Bluegrass quite a bit. I also remember racing Roger a lot, seems like at KilKare and Edgewater we always had to run him, and we mostly came in second LOL. I remember how happy my partners were the first time we managed to beat Roger, they thought we finally 'arrived!' Roger is a class act.