02.03.03__Z8_MUM_EWS_0070

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02/08/03	Dave Walter	I remember when this car flipped over Earl Kinnert on the front straight away at Grandview with Frankie Snyder (41) not, the Frankie Schneider that ran the 2.
02/08/03	3-Wide	Yea Dave - That accident that you are referring to is on the cover of the Area Auto Racing News Review of 1970 - 1975, and it pictures the #41 going through the air about 12 feet up just as level as if it was on the track!
04/09/04	Barry Miller	I was at that race in 1972 at Grandview when Eddie was involved in that wreck, I was only 12 years old but I still remember it. This car was later sold to Ron Roberts and he raced it at Bridgeport as a green # 14. I liked it better as the Z-8, he also had bounties put on him at Grandview too.
08/19/06	3Wide	I got a chance to talk with Eddie on Aug 19th, 2006. He currently owns a body shop outside of Phila that he rents out. He's got some great stories from East Windsor, Reading, Grandview, Bridgeport... Told us that after running his sportsman heat one night at EWS, the Norcia guys wanted to put a Big Block in the car... Then Jimmy Horton wanted to buy the car without the motor... it was that fast. (Only weighed about 2000lbs... He also told us about the time that somebody tried to go around the OUTSIDE of him at EWS and ended up catching the wall instead. As they returned to the pits, the upset driver and crew gave Ed their opinion of things and Ed told him, "What in the heck were you doing trying to pass me on the outside?" (For those who remember Ed's driving style, he usually didn't leave a whole lot between him and the wall!) The next week, Ed was leading and waved this same driver around him and let him go on for the win. The upset driver confronted him afterwards and said, "What did you do that for?" Ed told him that the guy thought Ed had wrecked him earlier and this was Ed's way of saying that he didn't need a win or the $'s so bad that he'd wreck anybody. The other driver was a little agrevated because it was no fun to win if Ed was waving him around! Ed told us about the time that he had nitrous on the Orange Krate at EWS. (Swears he was just experimenting with it and never really did get to where he benifited from it because it carried the car into the corner further than he wanted, and he was already having enough trouble getting through the corner..) Said one time he was lined up to go out for the feature and the Tech Inspector (Eddie said he had a limp and wore glasses) came over to the line and asked him if he had nitrous in the fire extinguisher... Ed denied it at first, and the Tech Inspector knew it was in there so he just kept telling Ed, "Ed, I can't let you run with that in there... take the extinquisher out..." After a discussion, they told him to disconnect it... Ed suggested leaving it all intact, and got them to setting for just pulling the lever to release the charge so that he didn't have to disconnect everything. A few minutes later when he went to start it up, the Nitrous had not dissapated as much as he had planned and well, you guessed it... as Ed said, it "Sounded like an atom bomb!" Ed also had a story about Reading... He went out there and won... got protested... won the protest, but Lindy would only give him half of his winnings (the win paid $400) because even though he was legal, Lindy claimed he had to keep the lights on so long because of the protest that he was going to have to use the other half of Eddie's winnings to pay the electric bill... Ed got $200 instead of $400 with a legal car... Ed told us about the time at Grandview where he came up light... (Same car weighed more on the Reading scale, so while Ed's car might have been legal, the scale said it wasn't.) Ed decide to fill a 5 gallon jug with water and strap it to the back of his seat, and borrowed a chain/block from a friends trailer and put that in the car too. Well, the water all leaked out, but the weight of the chain block was good enough... They made weight after the feature. Only problem... they forgot to put the borrowed chain back on the car on the trailer and on the way out, his friends car came off the trailer... Ed said that at Bridgeport they'd put him to the rear a lot for jumping so he got to where he'd lay back a little so that they wouldn't penalize him, but that he'd still try to have the lead by the time they got to turn 3. A lot of ingenuity went into his cars, but it was he white Pinto that was his fastest. Said it said on it "Sandy's Mink" because his wife's name was Sandy and, well, after spending money on the racecar... that was her mink! Great Stories from one of our favorites here in the Vault. Ed turned 70 this year... Sounded to us like he's could still get it done out there!
11.09.09	Dennis Hammerl	The mishap at Grandview was on a start. Mumford back a couple of rows on the inside And Frank Snyder behind him. I don't recall Earl being in the mix. The starter threw the flag and in the drag race, two cars in the front row rubbed and one (Leon Altimose's brother, name escapes me) kissed off the wall and turned in. As everybody got caught up, Mumford's car rolled and Snyder went over it, causing the launch that gave us the picture shown on the front page. Snyder's car completely removed the body shell from Eddie's car. The Z8 wound up on all four at the end, minus body. The car pictured never worked as well at Grandview as the previous one that Eddie used. That car was a radical cut-away early ford bodied deal that was white. Many feature wins.

Photo ID #	02.03.03__Z8_MUM_EWS_0070_1
Car #:	#Z-8
Driver (s) :	Eddie Mumford
Location:	East Windsor, NJ
Date:	1970's
Photographer:	A Stan Fan
Photo provided by:	A Stan Fan
Comments:	I don't know about you other 70's guys and gals out there, but this was one of my all time favorite cars. (Almost ripped it out of A Stan Fan's book last night at the Fillimon's Movie show when I seen it. (Thanks for providing the pictures so other visitors of the vault can also enjoy the memories that this car brings back).