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[nlhenry55]

63 years old, Born in Swainsboro Ga, Live in East Dublin Ga. Started working in my brothers cabinet shop at 14 and have been involved in all phases of cabinet trade every since. As of now i am a project superintendt for Indiana based Kitchen Cabinet Specialists, We install cabinets in multifamily housing. Married, have 2 sons& 2 step daughters and 5 amazing grand children, 2 girls& 3 boys and one on the way. My brother Bobby Henry built Swainsboro Raceway in 1964 & thats how i got involved in racing. He was a very talented motorcycle flat track racer & won several track championships throughout Georgia. I followed in his footsteps & started racing in 1974 in Ga& South Carolina. I countinued racing until 1979 & hung it up. I started attending stockcar racing at Swainsboro & 441 speedway in Dublin & i was hooked. There was a driver from Soperton Ga named Jimmy Sharpe that was dominate at both tracks, He had a large fan base & he was & still is a helluva wheel man. Later on in The mid 90s we became friends & i helped out on his team when Ray Millers national late model series began. I gave that up later so i could be involved with my sons school sports. I hardly get to races any more, probaly 2 or 3 a year because of my job. On the road for 3 to 6 weeks at a time & when i get a break i all i want to do is nothing. Still love it & my favorites are Davenport, Overton, Madden & Travis Pennington. Also locally Jimmy Sharpe Jr & Tyler Mimbs are who i try to keep track of. All goes well this old man is retiring at end of 2019 & then i can catch up on attending some races.

[dirty-white-boy]

I never heard about the driver meeting. It was a 75 lap race not 100.

[PRCKartRacer9]

32. Married. 3 daughters. Born and raised central Ohio. Grew up going to Lakeville, Buckeye, Mansfield, R&R, Amish Hilltop, Muskingum, Crooksville, Pennsboro, Mineral Wells. Been to Eldora, I-79, and Attica. Pennsboro was my favorite. Dad and I were in victory lane in 90 when Boggs won which made the cover of Mid American. Started racing a Chevette when I was 14 and did that for 6 years at Lakeville, Buckeye, Muskingum, and Crooksville Got away from racing for about 10 years and then bought a kart. Have since bought my wife one as well as my oldest daughter. Travel for work doing ceramic refractory. Danny Dean is my all time favorite because dad worked on his cars and that got me started. Donnie is my second. Bart 3rd

[chupp n bloomer fan]

32. Married. 3 daughters. Born and raised central Ohio. Grew up going to Lakeville, Buckeye, Mansfield, R&R, Amish Hilltop, Muskingum, Crooksville, Pennsboro, Mineral Wells. Been to Eldora, I-79, and Attica. Pennsboro was my favorite. Dad and I were in victory lane in 90 when Boggs won which made the cover of Mid American. Started racing a Chevette when I was 14 and did that for 6 years at Lakeville, Buckeye, Muskingum, and Crooksville Got away from racing for about 10 years and then bought a kart. Have since bought my wife one as well as my oldest daughter. Travel for work doing ceramic refractory. Danny Dean is my all time favorite because dad worked on his cars and that got me started. Donnie is my second. Bart 3rd

Towards the end of Danny’s career he was in a nice modified at Sharon. This is before Sharon had fully caught up
on the modified stuff. He was the class of the field. White car, blue 67. Just smoked them. Him and Barry Jacobs would come up and run when Sharon had an off night special.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

A nice #31 car too, last name Farmer, not sure where he was from. Black and purple 31 I think, beautiful stuff.

[golddirt]

58 years of age two marriages now in a great relationship. Born and raised in Illinois for 42 years, raised up for fourteen around blandinsville Illinois. Been in Stateline Indiana since 2002. First race attended was in Burlington Iowa cheering for Jim Heap. I used to hit at least 3 races a week but hit around ten a year now. Union taper/painter for 37 years

[Tek2747]

45 yrs old living in Mansfield Ohio. It was awesome to finally have dirt back in Mansfield. When I first moved here from Plainfield Ill in 89 Mansfield was dirt and when that went away it sucked. I grew up at Santa Fe Speedway in Hinsdale Ill and loved dirt racing. At 14 I started working there. My dad was a track official and I started as the scoreboard operator. In late 88 my dad who for worked for GM found out they were closing the GM plant there. We moved in June of 89. While living in Illinois my dad and I traveled a little Hales corner, Kankakee, Sycamore, Lasalle and Grundy county when Santa Fe wasn't racing. I admit I knew nothing about Eldora and the world 100 until we moved to Ohio. We attended our 1st world 100 in 89 and haven't missed one since. I have 2 daughters 23 and 21 who try to attend the races with me as much as possible they also love Eldora. For Christmas they got me a awesome gift a hand painted sign of the last remaining sign of Santa Fe that was still standing I believe the original was on top of a garage or something that you can see from the interstate. They know my love for racing. Now I travel mostly in Ohio or 3 hrs from my house. Last yr I did finally make it back to Lasalle and fairbury and plan on going back next yr. I did make it to Arizona for the wild west shoot out and will be back. Been to east bay once. My goal is to one day follow the whole summer nationals but with work that wont be for a while. I love dirt racing and love to travel.

Pretty neat story. When I was 14 years old in the early 2000's we lived near Ray Marler's son. He got my Dad and I jobs at I-55 Raceway in the infield concession stand. We made food and watched the races all night long on weekends through the summer. Really good memories working there. Loved watching Ed Dixon.

[NY DIRT]

fun time

my mother told me I was walking at 2 months, talking at 6 months, hit my first grand slam home run at 9 months and ran a 100 yard dash in less the 10 seconds at the age of 2.

She says I am the best there is, best there was, and best there will ever be.

But my problem is, I am 74 years old and I still do not know what I want to be when I grow up.

[Bubstr]

I'm 75 and have been going to races or wrenching on them since 1950. In the 80s I got into showing and breeding dogs, with some success. It was a wife deal. Building a dog is like building a car, except it takes 5 years to replace a camshaft. I always went to watch and keep up with what was going on with the late models till now. My health has me on a very short leash now, called an oxygen hose. I have met a lot of good people at races and really miss them. I was a Nam Vet from 64 to 68 USN Fighter Squadron VF101 Grim Reapers.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

I'm 75 and have been going to races or wrenching on them since 1950. In the 80s I got into showing and breeding dogs, with some success. It was a wife deal. Building a dog is like building a car, except it takes 5 years to replace a camshaft. I always went to watch and keep up with what was going on with the late models till now. My health has me on a very short leash now, called an oxygen hose. I have met a lot of good people at races and really miss them. I was a Nam Vet from 64 to 68 USN Fighter Squadron VF101 Grim Reapers.

May not agree on much, but thanks for your service. Were you a pilot? What kinda dogs did ya breed?

[Bubstr]

May not agree on much, but thanks for your service. Were you a pilot? What kinda dogs did ya breed?

No pilot here. A airframes / hydraulic troubleshooter and OTJ TRAINING instructor. Our Squadron was the precursor to Top GUN. BREAD BULLDOGS. Biggest claim to fame was winning Best of Breed at Westminster, Madison square garden. I also sold the dog that played in the movie, Mr Magoo with Steve Martin. He was in the Emitt Smith commercials also.

[EvelB7]

49 years old, grew up in southeast Iowa, moved south in early 90's (Charlotte area). Father raced but I also got to travel with Johnny Johnson as a kid, became big fan of the whole NDRA group. Started racing late models when I was 16, still ran 5 races in 2018; spend more time racing karts with my oldest daughter these days. Employed for the last 16 years at an automotive technical school. Lucky to have gotten to race over such a long period (ran with Sanger, Dake, Webb, D Birkofer etc. when I started all the way through Combs, Swartz, Johnson, Bloomquist to Davenport, Overton, and on. 2013 was the only year I did not race a late model (though I did test one) from 1986 to the present. First job was selling the Hawkeye Racing News at the racetracks (and I can tell you some stories about fans during those times). Like most, preferred the 'super' late models but had some success in crates. Still enjoy it just have let myself fall behind the times....

[chupp n bloomer fan]

No pilot here. A airframes / hydraulic troubleshooter and OTJ TRAINING instructor. Our Squadron was the precursor to Top GUN. BREAD BULLDOGS. Biggest claim to fame was winning Best of Breed at Westminster, Madison square garden. I also sold the dog that played in the movie, Mr Magoo with Steve Martin. He was in the Emitt Smith commercials also.

Gotcha on the Air Force position you had. Would still be cool.

That’s some pretty good bragging rights though. Not many can say that. Have a good New Year Bubstr.

[musolino21]

Tony Musolino, I'm 33, work as a commercial carpenter and from a town near Pittsburgh, PA. I been driving super late models for quite a while and competed on 20 dirt tracks overall. Our race team was always budget limited and always had a family friend build our motors and mostly had chassis that were a few years old. One chassis we purchased at a desperate time, the chassis was sitting outside a guy's garage with dirt in the driver's compartment that actually had weeds growing in it (not illegal weeds). That chassis won us two Hillbilly 50 heat races at Tyler County and one Fall Fest heat race at Challenger Raceway.

Overall my team and I won 20 heat/feature races (mostly heat races). We won either a heat or feature at Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, Marion Center Speedway, Tyler County, Lernerville, I-77 Raceway and Challenger Raceway. Our first trip to Eldora for the Appleseed in 2014 we were fastest in our hot laps and were in the transfer spot in the heat until another car bumped us into the wall. We also qualified top-ten out of 28 cars in our group for the Firecracker at Lernerville a few years ago. Not big accomplishments, but for our position I'm proud of those moments in a highly competitive area.

We lost the garage last year that we rented for 14 years and the costs of super lates forced us to sell out our super late model program. I'm teaming up with a crate late model car owner for 2019 and looking forward to have plenty of fun.

[Pennsboro23]

Tony Musolino, I'm 33, work as a commercial carpenter and from a town near Pittsburgh, PA. I been driving super late models for quite a while and competed on 20 dirt tracks overall. Our race team was always budget limited and always had a family friend build our motors and mostly had chassis that were a few years old. One chassis we purchased at a desperate time, the chassis was sitting outside a guy's garage with dirt in the driver's compartment that actually had weeds growing in it (not illegal weeds). That chassis won two Hillbilly 50 heat races at Tyler County and one Fall Fest heat race at Challenger Raceway.

Overall my team and I won 20 heat/feature races (mostly heat races). We won either a heat or feature at Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, Marion Center Speedway, Tyler County, Lernerville, I-77 Raceway and Challenger Raceway. Our first trip to Eldora for the Appleseed in 2014 we were fastest in our hot laps and were in the transfer spot in the heat until another car bumped us into the wall. We also qualified top-ten out of 28 cars in our group for the Firecracker at Lernerville a few years ago. Not big accomplishments, but for our position I'm proud of those moments in a highly competitive area.

We lost the garage last year that we rented for 14 years and the costs of super lates forced us to sell out our super late model program. I'm teaming up with a crate late model car owner for 2019 and looking forward to have plenty of fun.

I remember you running at Tyler County, wondered what had happened to ya. Good luck with everything this coming year!