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Photo ID # 10.13.03_083_SHE_EWS_0070_1
Car #: #83
Driver (s) : Ray Shea
Location: East Windsor, NJ
Date: 1970's
Photographer: Carl Becker
Photo provided by: Nancy Shea
Comments: Ray Shea bolted on the dirt track tires for a little fun in the mud at EWS in great looking Harry and John Megill owned coach that could usually be found on Saturday Nights on the high banks of Wall!  Once Ray was done behind the wheel he didn't stop there as you can now find Ray very involved with preserving the history of this sport as the current President of the Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club.
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10/20/03 rjobes This was a very beautiufl car that john and harry owned any other pictures of there cars would be greatful
11/21/0 DOUG M. THIS CAR WAS DESTROYED AT THE VERY FIRST TURKEY DERBY AT WALL STADIUM IN 1974.  THE CAR FLIPPED 5 OR 6 TIMES DOWN THE FRONT STRETCH IN THE SPORTSMAN FEATURE.  HARRY AND JOHN MEGILL THEN WENT ON TO BUILD THEIR SECOND #83 SEDAN THAT RACED INTO THE EARLY 80'S AT WALL - NEW EGYPT - ATLANTIC CITY AND EVERGREEN .
10/25/03 rjobes ...and he always ran the best when he ran and always had some good cars.  I remember going to their shop behind their house with my father and talking for a while all the time
11/28/03 Robby M. Ray Shea - Simply Awesome - Ray will always be the man, but I have to ask...who is the groupie with the glasses and the mullet ?   The photographer is very talented, and I recognize his work.  What a trip down memory lane.....Robby M.  Indianapolis, IN
11/28/03 3-Wide Call me Kreskin, but it sounds like maybe you have a little inside info on the players here... 

If I ever put a section together on the great sedans of the 70's, this would be near the top of the list for sure.

02/26/04 Jerry Did John and Harry ever find that car?   I remember reading years ago they were looking for it believe they sold it and it ran at evergreen/they had an ad in the aarn
02/26/04 Lewstor I remember being over john/harrys house a cpl of times and seeing all there old cars behind the garage! incl. this sedan and an old coupe ray drove/poss late 60/s?
02/28/04 DOUG MEGILL WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE  # 83 - ( 37 CHEVY SEDAN ). THE CAR WAS SOLD IN  THE MID 80'S BY ART BISTERFIELD FROM HOWELL NJ TO A GUY IN EASTERN PA. THRU AN  AD IN THE AARN .THE CAR WAS STILL BLUE AND WHITE WITH RED NUMBERS ( # 55 ). 
HAD BAY TRANSMISSIONS ON THE REAR PANEL. LEFT SIDE STEER CAR ON A 55 CHEVY  CHASSIS.   RACERS PRAYER STICKER ON THE FIREWALL ABOVE TRANSMISSION . 

CALL DOUG MEGILL 732-681-1856 IF YOU HAVE ANY LEADS ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE   CAR. IF I FIND THE CAR BASED ON YOUR INFO - I WILL GIVE YOU $ 300.00. WE FOUND THE   # 83  3 WINDOW COUPE THAT JOHN RAN IN THE 70'S AT WINDSOR AND  ATLANTIC CITY. CURRENTLY BEING RESTORED.

THANKS, DOUG MEGILL

03/17/04 R Jobes Doug - Please get up with me about the rebuilding of John's cars.  Would like to talk to you about it also tell him and Harry that I said hi please.  Thank you
04/04/04 Charlie P. Robby M. -  I'm pretty sure that the "groupie" is the photog's son Bob.  Some of his photo's can be found in the Open Wheel pages. 
07/17/06 Jason Kosch Does anyone remember when he drove for a few year his own orange - thats right orange #43 - at middletown, He was always fast and my Uncle Bill Kosch loved him and his race cars. Does anyone have any pics of that car it was around the early to late 90"s Thanks Jason Kosch
07/17/06 3Wide I only remember Ray driving in the 70's.  
07/17/06 Jason Kosch I don't know the exact year it might of been in the early 80's but I do know it was at Middletown for sure. Now that I think about it, it just might have been. It was deffinately a orange #43 black and bluish numbers and a black stripe on the side. Deffinately Ray my Uncle loved him.  Thanks Jay
03/11/07 Ray Shea Let me clear it up, there are two Ray Shea's.  Even with an airport next to Wall it would have been difficult to race at Wall and Middletown on the same night. Ray Shea
03/11/07 3-Wide Ray,  Did you also drive a #72 at EWS?   Think I've got a picture around here of a coupe with what looks like says "Ray Shea" across the side of the roof.
03/19/07 Jerry remember ya drivin parrinos coupe for the beginning of the 76/season/thought ya did good/if they put tires on it whatever it was it needed think ya would have done ok

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