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Photo ID #	f08.31.09_024_BRE_REA_0070K_1
Car #:	#24
Driver (s) :	Ken Brenn Jr.
Location:	Reading, PA
Date:	1970's
Photographer:	Paul Irving
Photo provided by:	Paul Irving
Comments:	Here's Ken Brenn Jr. in an original Ken Brenn "King" car. From what I've learned, Ken Brenn Sr. contacted master car builder Grant King in Indianapolis and requested that Grant build a modified. Ken provided the plans and Grant went to work and from that created the first "Grant King built Modified Stock Car." Since it didn't make a lot of financial sense to just build one car, the deal between Brenn Sr. and Grant King was for Ken to become a distributor for the cars. Soon others were ordered and before the run was over, the "King" cars would be known as some of the most successful cars in the 70's to ever run on the dirt here in the Northeast area.

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08.31.09	Kevin Eyres	What's funny about the Ken Brenn Grant King car picture, is it is typical picture from the late 60's til the early 80's. Guys standing with their hands in their pockets, staring at stock cars. We have all done it. Take a look at all those types of pictures and see what I mean. Are they admiring it, trying to learn something about it, or trying to figure out, what it was about that car? The more a car won, the more people looked. Than came the driver stare. Guys would look at a driver, in the pits, just to absorb their mannerisms. Weird deal.
08.31.09	3Wide	Guilty! Been there... done that... Especially after a wreck... Don't really know what to say... Don't really know what to do other than to just stand there with hands in pocket and feel like I'm having a deep moment.... Thanks Kev.
11.22.12	Jack Burroughs	I thought that Lenny Zito had one too, he only ran at Naz., small track, as far as I can remember.
12.30.12	Steve Newman	Joe, The Grant King cars were by far my favorite and Ken Brenn Jr. was my idle as a kid. I think I single handedly kept Ace and his family on the Forbes list LOL as I brought every shot he could take. I think I made Ken 2 or 3 hand made models of his king cars too. I wish I had Ace's photos in my possession today but sadly they were lost in a move in the late 80's. You do a wonderful job on your site and keep up your hard work. Happy New Year! to you.