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Photo ID # 03.05.03_707_UNK_NAZ_0060_1
Car #: #707
Driver (s) : Bobby Pickel (Thanks Jim B)
Location: not sure...
Date: 1967 or 68  
Photographer: Bryan Coffey
Photo provided by: Bryan Coffey
Comments: Looks like the mile track at Nazareth to me (with that big Grandstand in the background), but I'm hearing that it might be Middletown.... 
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03/06/03 Jim B This is Paul Deasey's Big Donkey #707 - - it looks like Bobby Pickell next to the car.  This is the Ford cammer version of the car that Kenny Shoemaker drove at Langhorne in 1968.  The first issue of "Strapped In" has a photo of this car along side the Pleasant Hill Golf (Bob Wertz) #57 on the back cover.  I'll try to do some more poking around to see if I can find out more.
03/06/03 3-Wide Thanks Jim - I've got my copy of  Mike Feltenberg's "Strapped In" on order.  Here's how to get your copy of his magazine featuring the great days of Reading:

Send a check or money order for $5.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling to:

Mike Feltenberger
1169 Mulberry St.
Reading, Pa. 19604

03/06/03 John Mc 3W, I think that's Middletown......looks like the drive-in area back there, if I'm not mistaken. Not sure of the driver, though. I believe that's Harry Steinkopf next to them w/ the 23. It's gotta be the '60's, probably '67 or '68. Thx, JMc
03/09/03 Bill Hanna This is taken in the outside pits of the Nazareth 1/2 mile. Thats the big track grandstand in the background with cars parked all over the place. That is definately Harry Steinkopf in the # 23 next to Pickell. Great Photo (thankx John Mc) Bill Hanna Easton, PA
12/12/03 Bob Pickell Jr This photo was taken at the Nazereth half mile when the pits were located outside the 4th turn. The very first time Bob ran this car was at Nazereth and he won the feature his very first time in the car, passing Frankie Schnieder for the win.  I know, I was there.
03/20/05 Kevin Budden This particular Donkey sure looks very heavy just look at the size of those supports for the side bars, and what the heck is that at the end of the headers? great photo, Kevin Budden..
04.19.09 Richard Coleman A I recall his regular ride had gotten wrecked at Flemington the night before and he had come to Nazareth without a ride for a few weeks. I was at that race too. For anyone to win in the Big Donkey was an achievement. I'm not sure if it was the cammer Ford in it at that time, but the sound of that car backing off in the turns was a one of a kind sound. I remember too that whoever was driving it would start it after all the others in the pits who were coming out, you could always pick the Big Donkey out. I think I could still pick it out today, more than 40 years since I last heard it.
     
11/02/09 Clarence Wolfe This car was then driven in 1968 by my brother Charles Wolfe Jr. and myself, Clarence Wolfe under a green paint job with the number 03 on the car. We bought the car off of Paul and he built us a dual overhead cam ford engine. We couldn't afford fuel injection so we ran a holly 3 barrel. We ran Reading and East Windsor. We were always in the wall cause we couldn't get Paul's invention of the quarter elliptic front end suspension to handle and that's the reason Paul sold the car we found out later. Burr Head
11/08/09 3Wide Any idea what happened to the car after you guys were done with it...  Was it scrapped?
     
     

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