The Factory Experimental Cars

[Steve Stasko]

Originally Posted by Steve1118

Jody is right. This car raced at old Keystone Raceway, Pittsburgh Raceway Park; and it WAS NOT the S&M Paper Tiger; or Buckeye & Vernon. This was a home brew from the Pittsburgh area....I remember it well.

It was always my understanding that the "Paper Tiger" was destroyed in a crash sometime in the late sixties.

This car was not from the Pittsburgh area, and wasn't a typical "home brew." This is/was the former Dave Koffel/Maloney Motors car. Richard Duecker (Chippewa Lake, Ohio) bought it and ran it for a number of years.

This car was destroyed in a starting line accident at Quaker City in the early 80's. Whoever owned the car at the time lost it in the burnout box and rear ended the former Hine Motors "Chargin Hemi" '69 Charger, which was then owned by Ben Bertok. It's my understanding that the Charger was repaired and put back on the street. The Belvedere on the other hand was quite fragile at this point and pretty much folded up on impact.