| Photo ID # | c07.06.06_047_HAV_FLM_0060_1 |
| Car #: | #47 |
| Driver (s) : | Dick Havens |
| Location: | Flemington |
| Date: | Late 60's |
| Photographer: | Ace Lane |
| Photo provided by: | Bob Barone |
| Comments: | Time...
In the time it will take me to right this comment, a few more minutes will pass... In the time it takes you to find this page and look at the photo and read the comments, a few more hours and days will have passed... As you add your comments, the weeks will turn into months... 'months into years. Time has had its way with this photo. It was probably the late 60's when a once bright, colorful photo was purchased. The photo captured the sound, the optimism, the craftsmanship, the courage...it captured the life of the speedway and all who were a part of it. In the photo could be found many of the teams there that early evening, with one of the best of the time, Dick Havens, standing proudly next to his mount for the evening; The Carberry prepared, Tom Backes lettered #47... Right there - front and center. Over time, things change... A photo fades, new ideas replace old, attitudes change, communities change... a photo fades a little more. Loved ones move on... life presents new challenges, new priorities... the photo gets pushed aside. I received this photo about 2 years ago and with a quick glance, decided not to post it. I didn't like how time had taken its toll on it. I thought if there was only a way to fix it... to make it like it was... To fix the color, to remove the stains that time had inflicted, to somehow make it like it used to be.... But I took a different look at this photo today... A real good look and realized that It's faded, its discolored,,, and its perfect. Time has roughed it up a bit... but it hasn't taken it away from us. |
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| Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
| 07/03/06 | Mike Serden | If it were not for photos like this one, we would not have anything left from Flemington but our own memories, good job in posting this one. |
| 07/08/06 | john | Amen.Joe, if you were to post this picture upside down, I would be doing a head stand to look at it. faded? looks great to me, not too faded to see the 'polecat' in the back ground. |
| 07/08/09 | 3Wide | OK... Here we go John... : Now if you start losing your balance go ahead and fall over and look at the bigger one above! (Just having fun John - Thanks for the great comment. I think we all know what you mean!) (By the way, this is about the only way to have a car driven by Dick Havens be upside down as I can't ever remember him really tearing up any of his cars, which is really amazing when you think of how much he accomplished behind the wheel!) |
| 07/09/06 | john | "I've fallen and I can't get up." OK, you got me. Should have known better; you always listen to the vault visitors. that's why this site is second to none. Getting back to that fine driver; you don't tear up much equipment when you run up front like he did. That man was proud to drive those beauties. They started the feature in one piece and at the end of the evening, were loaded on the trailer in one piece. |
| 07/09/06 | Todd | Hey Joe, check out the fenders on the car. I remember at the Ivins movie
show, someone telling us that the rules (NASCAR?) mandated fenders up to a certain year,
but I forget the year. If you see a bunch of old timers wearing neck braces at the races, you know they must have been lost in the vault! |
| 07/09/06 | 3Wide | I know the Piscopo #39 had fenders for a while also. Someone out there with a little more "experience" will come to the rescue as far as what year the rules let them do away with front fenders. |
| 07/11/06 | Barry | Is that Two Gun Oakley in the #444 in the back ground or one of the Farleys? I remember a 56 Ford body #444 that ran at Harmony. I remember Bud Olson running a white coupe that looked like the 47. I believe it was #93. |
| 07/19/06 | Barry | There is a picture in the Vault of Dick in the 93 a simular ride. But as far as the fenders goining bye bye, I would say 1968 - 69. The coupes & the couches had a new look in the cold warm ups. At Nazareth I can still smell the chocolate and the hillborn injectors. Thanks 3 wide - Barry |
| 07/20/06 | 3-Wide | The #39, #47 and the #93 were all from the Morrisville, Pa area (Trenton, NJ) and all were white and lettered by the same person. The Fred Menschner silver and red #21 driven by Ray Neary and later by Oliver Butler was also lettered by Tom Backes. |
| 08/06/07 | Jeff Williams | I grew up in the Levittown area in Thornridge Across the road was the garage owned by George Taylor. I was good friends with his grandson. I can still remember as if it was yesterday, the 47 was built by the Taylor family, I know because as I said we use to ride mini-bikes at the garage that Mr. Taylor made. We use to watch them work on the 47. I just wanted to let you know. Thank You, Jeff Williams |
| 10/14/06 | Jim Murrow | Joe, I believe that 444 is the car known as the "Flag 444" that
hailed from just north of the speedway on route 69 - (31). It was driven by Bob Hall. |
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