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Photo ID # a.01.25.04_898_MYS_FLM_0060_1
Car #: #898
Driver (s) : Bob Wiesemeyer
Location: Flemington, NJ
Date: very late 60's or early 70's
Photographer: Ace Lane
Photo provided by: Ace Lane
Comments: We used this as a mystery photo and many of you knew that it was "Bow-Tie" Bob Wiesemeyer.   (Please take a look at the comments from current Super Stock campaigner Ron Barnstead whose father owned a cars that Bob drove.  I'm told that Bob also drove the #32A.
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01/27/04 BIG RON THAT'S BOB WIESEMEYER AND  LOUIE STARR WITH THE STARR AUTO BODY 898
01/29/04 Ely125 I think this is a late 60s picture.  I'm basing my guess on the frame underneath the # 898.  It's sure no Tobias, BOSS or Troyer Mudd Buss!
02/04/04 Big Ron I'm pretty sure the 898 (which got it's number from Star Auto Body's address of 898 RT 1 in Avenel), was most likely Wiesemeyer's last modified ride. I remember seeing it in the body shop about my senior year in high school which was 1972, and it hadn't been run for awhile at that time. I worked for Bob's steel erecting business after I graduated and he was retired from driving. 

BOB DROVE A LOT OF RACECARS FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.......INCLUDING MY FATHER WHO'S CARS WERE NUMBERED 20, AND 3B, AND A 37 FORD SLANT BACK NUMBERED 87. THE 32A CARS WERE OWNED BY DALE GLICKNER.   HE HAD SOME ODD CARS FOR THE PERIOD SUCH AS A CORVAIR THAT WAS OUTLAWED FOR BEING TOO LOW AT FLEMINGTON.  BOB WAS A VERSATILE DRIVER WHO TOOK CARE OF HIS EQUIPMENT. I LAST SPOKE TO HIM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS 74 ON THE PHONE FROM HIS HOME IN FLA.

08/23/04 BIG RON ODDLY,BOB HAD JUST PAST AWAY 2 MONTHS BEFORE THIS PIC DEBUTED ON YOUR SITE.   I JUST FOUND HIS OBITUARY ONLINE FROM THE STANDARD, MACCLENNY FLA DATED DEC, 2003.

BOB INSPIRED ME IN MANY WAYS.

Robert Louis Wiesemeyer


Mr. Robert Louis Wiesemeyer, age 79, died Thursday, November 27, 2003, in the Orange Park Medical Center after a brief illness. The Mobile, Alabama native lived in Sanderson, Florida for the past eleven years moving from Baldwin, Florida. He served his country during WWII as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He belonged to the Taylor Church, International Brotherhood of Iron Workers, Boilermakers Local #199, and Moose Lodge. He had a love for racing and was once a race car driver himself.
08/23/04 3-Wide We hope this website is a chance for the drivers and families of the drivers to know just how important those nights at the speedway, watching our favorites drivers in their unforgetable cars, were and will always be to us.  I think Bob retired right about the time I started going to Flemington, but I can appreciate the impact these guys had on us when we were kids.  I hope Bob knew.

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