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Photo ID # I03.09.12_GRP_LAN_LAN_0067_2
Car #: #(many)
Driver (s) : Bill Strosahl, Lee Osborne, Will Cagle, Al Tasnady, Charlie Jarzombek, Pete Corey, ... (top photo)... Frank Myronchuk and others (bottom photo)
Location: Langhorne PA
Date: 1967
Photographer: Dick Hauer
Photo provided by: Dick Hauer
Comments: Packed grandstands at Langhorne as fast timer Bill Strosahl paces the field.
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03.11.12 Harry Cella There was something magic about Langhorne. These photos bring back memories of my dad and I sitting in the stands down there. There was just something about seeing those heroes of the day lined up coming down for that green flag. And seeing the dirt cars prepped to running on asphalt, the best of the dirt vs. the best of the asphalt drivers. Thanks for sharing and bringing back the memories.
03.11.12 3-Wide You got me thinking Harry about that same "feeling"...  I can't describe being at Langhorne and seeing a sight like we see above in the photos, but it was something special. 

While you were up in the stands, me and my dad were in the infield on a small scaffold he had built for the back of his pick up truck, pulled up along the inside fence somewhere about 1/3 of the way around the track (because of Langhorne's shape, I can't really call it turn 1... or turn 2 but you get the idea.) 

The part about seeing the "heroes of the day" out on the big track was bigger than life to me.  The unique cars... the "cutting edge technology of the day"...  This was the real deal...  This was the best of the best, and they had all gathered at one spot.

This is going to sound kinda weird, but I felt kinda proud... and/or "validated" that everyone of them had made it to the "big time."  Here were some the guys that I had watched race locally and/or read about in AARN running and winning at their local tracks throughout the northeast...  And here they were on the big track... the same track where guys like Foyt and Andretti..  and McElreath and Ruby raced!  They had made it to the Big Time.

.....the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe that was only 1/2 the reason that watching a the full field of cars coming down for the start in front of the packed grandstands at Langhorne was something special.  The other 1/2 just might be because at exactly that moment... With all the cars all lined up about to go green..  at just that moment, all of us that could usually be found on Friday or Saturday night sitting out in the stands at our local little short track, where maybe lights weren't that good... and maybe the track and facilities might have been a little rough around the edges... and who our friends at school "just didnt' get it" that EVERY WEEKEND WE WENT TO THE RACES...  well maybe... just maybe for that moment, this was our making it to the "Big Time" too...."
02.08.14 Danny DeMarco

Tas finished 2nd to Dutch Hoag that day. Al was running near the front early in the race and spun in oil from a blown engine. Al went a lap down in the pits. He came back and unlapped himself and was reeling Dutch at the finish. There was controversy because Dutch was accused of not coming to a complete stop on his mandatory. I remember being with Al after the race. His hands were so sore and stiff from saw hard on the wheel trying to get unlapped that he could barely hold a pen to sign autographs.

Top photo also includes Charlie Jarzombek in the #1, Pete Corey in the #3. The #87 in the bottom photo is NY's Jerry Hayes.  Also seen in the top photo at the far right is eventual winner Dutch Hoag in the orange #18 coupe. Bottom photo also includes Toby Tobias aside of the Jerry Hayes #87.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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