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Photo ID # 07.15.03_051_YOU_UNK_0070_1
Car #: #51
Driver (s) : Wayne Young
Location: Nazareth, PA   (1/2 Mile)   (Thanks Walter and Jim)
Date: 1972
Photographer: Bob Snyder?    (not sure...)
Photo provided by: Jim Young (Race Songs)
Comments: Comment from Jim:   The car was a Nash Metropolitan, Blue and White in color , number 51, owned by John Bates (see note below) and Ronnie Kane from Milburn, N.J., was driven by Wayne Young (Photo Enclosed) and was nicknamed the "Space Machine"
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07/15/03 3-Wide "Ground Control to Major Tom......"  That is one wild looking ride!  Please provide date, location and photographer info if known.  Thanks -
07/15/03 Jim Murrow WOW !!!!! - I was living in Salt Lake City, when this thing ran. I never saw it before. That's gotta be the meanest looking Metropolitan ever! - And with a 454 Chevy up there, it must have been as mean as it looked. Great looking car, though. If I had ever seen this thing, you can bet it would have been one of my choices for your trivia question.   Thanks, Jim Murrow
07/15/03 Jim Young The year was 1972 and the location was Nazareth, Pa. 1/2 mile. On the outside is Buzzie Reutimann's 00. I'm not 100 % sure of the photographer, but I believe it was Bob Snyder........Jim Young
07/15/03 Walter Onora I remember this particular car. Looks like Nazareth(1/2 mile). Joe Conti, also drove for Kane/Bate team. I know John Bate was one of the top drivers at Weissglass Stadium back in the 60"s.
07/15/03 3-Wide Now that you mention it Walter, I do remember Joe Conti and I do remember him at one time driving a strange looking little creating #51 and I guess this was it! 
07/19/03 Tom Berry This car was actually built in Whitehouse ,N.J. by Walt Byers, Jim Martz and myself for the Bates/Kane owners.  It started life as a 37 chevy coupe, red # 51 and was raced at Nazareth and Flemington by Jim Martz, until the team parted ways and the metropolitan body was installed.
03/07/06 StevPrcr I would just like to make a small correction 'twas John Bates brother Louie who co-owned this beautiful coupe in which I was told always ran very well but could never quite pull off the big win
06/05/07 Ron S. As a kid, I lived in Springfield, which is one town over from Millburn, which is where this car was garaged. I would drive by the garage many times with my family and ask them what kind of car it was? Since my family knew nothing about stock car racing and since I was way too young to know anything, I never did get an answer. By the time I was old enough, this car and the garage were long gone. The building still exists. It is now a store that sells Lionel model trains. I still drive by now and then and hope that if I give a quick look, the garage and car will still be there! The garage and car are long gone, but the memory lives on!
06/05/07 3Wide Thanks for the comment.  Once a racecar is spotted somewhere, a real racefan can't help but look every time they go by for the rest of their life, still hoping to catch a glimpse, no matter how much time changes the location through the years!
04.19.09 Richard Coleman Wayne Young's father was Charley Young, the well-know (then anyway) rolled up sleeves piano player in the Lehigh Valley. He used to pit for his son in his night club get up and wave to the fans,
09.20.15 Dave B.

I grew up with that car . The garage that the car was worked on was my Grandads: John Bate Towing and Repair . I have a lot of photos of the car. 

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