Pat Patrick

[ALLDIRT]

If i'm wrong, please forgive me but I believe he passed a couple of years ago ..I hope i'm wrong about this.

Yes he's gone . Just passed not long ago . Pat was one of the best .
read post # 13 .

[Clayton_Wetter]

Tri County was black topped in 1973 and ruined everything. It was in Reading Ohio out on rte 42. It remained open as a race track until 1988 when it was bought and turned into a truck driving school. Bill Rewine build a DML palace in 1967 but thought in 1973 black topping it was the way to go. It wasn't. Their weekly shows when it was dirt compared to what you would now see at a 10,000 race. BTW when the black top track closed after 1987, their sponsor ships and a lot of the crowd migrated to Florence which started their ascent to a top rated place for racing.

So is that the track they called Queen City then, at one time?

[Clayton_Wetter]

The first car I saw Patrick in was a white camaro with a red #5 on it, he won the feature at NKS aka Florence Speedway that night. They still had the old covered grandstand back then. If you stood up in the top row you could not see the whole track. lol

[RTW]

I believe it became Queen City Speedway sometime after it was black topped.
I remember watching Pat Patrick drive the Morgan Chandler number 28 at Northern Ky Speedway with those big 4 barrel carbs sitting on top of a tunnel ram manifold. The carbs looked like they sitting 2 feet above the hood.

[ALLDIRT]

The first car I saw Patrick in was a white camaro with a red #5 on it, he won the feature at NKS aka Florence Speedway that night. They still had the old covered grandstand back then. If you stood up in the top row you could not see the whole track. lol

That's right Clayton . When he was driving that car , he was almost unbeatable . It was
the Morrison Electric Camaro . And I still remember that restart in 83 , with a few laps to go when
What put Jeff Purvis on the big stage , passed him for the win .

[smith19]

at first pat had a car of his own. #5 then he drove for guys like cliff polking's #48, morgan chandler #28, larry Morrison's #5, tucker #3, stricker #68, marion martin #44 just to name a few. I got ahold of Morrison's scrap books and it was ridiculous the amount of wins they had. pat took care of us when we took our stuff to don's crankshaft where he worked before working for the city of Cincinnati where he retired. pat loved to talk about the old days and have a cold beer. R.I.P pat. you are missed!

[Jim11h]

I recall reading as kid the mid american and seeing queen city, attended several LM shows such as the Mansfield Johnny Appleseed (back in early 80s was pretty big deal) was he ever there? Also due to location did he run brown county often? Always wanted to check place out but didn't get chance. I remember seeing name in the MAARN paper

[Bob Hubbard]

Didn't he drive The Zero car for cooks garage ?

[Clayton_Wetter]

I recall reading as kid the mid american and seeing queen city, attended several LM shows such as the Mansfield Johnny Appleseed (back in early 80s was pretty big deal) was he ever there? Also due to location did he run brown county often? Always wanted to check place out but didn't get chance. I remember seeing name in the MAARN paper

He also raced at Clay City Ky. and also Whitewater Valley in Indiana

I have a MAARN paper with Patrick on the cover.

[Bob Hubbard]

http://www.dirtfans.com/PatPatrick.html