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Photo ID # J02.19.13_081_121_FLM_0073_1
Car #: #81 & #121
Driver (s) : Billy Osmun and Sammy Beavers
Location: Flemington Speedway
Date: 1973
Photographer: Hank Winecker
Photo provided by: Hank Winecker
Comments: Comment from Hank:  Hope you like the photo - It is kinda exciting in subject.  Sammy's car is doubled because he is under the bright spotlight by the starters stand.    so his car was lit by the flash and the bright spotlight.  I took it,.. I sat on it all these years, just thought I'd share the moment, Hank Winecker
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02.19.13 3-Wide Thanks for sharing it Hank.  It's spectacular.  Captures so much....  Two of the greatest passing under Harry Dee's (see comment below) checkered flag less than a car length apart....  A packed house....The crowd split with the Billy O fans standing in victory and the Sammy fans running looking on a little dejected, but those thoughts will soon be replaced with more optimistic thoughts of , "Sammy will get'em next week!"...

Those are the obvious things...  Less obvious is the waving of the checkered flag not only on this race, but on the end of the era of coupes and sedans running up front in the modified class.  By the following year, many of the top modified teams would strip off the bulky coupe and sedans and replace them with more sleek Gremlin, Falcon and Mustang bodies.... 

Yup.... the checkered flag was waving.
02.25.13 Warren Alston

Joe, the flagman for the 1973 season was Ronnie Seiple.

02.25.13 3-Wide Thanks Warren - I should have looked a little closer.  I think Tex flagged at some point in 1972, then I'm not sure when/how long Ronnie Sieple was the flagman, and then I'm guessing that Harry Dee began shortly afterward (1974?)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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