Photo ID # | f09.02.09__0_MOO_ALC_0060S_1 |
Car #: | #0 & #111 |
Driver (s) : | Lew Mood |
Location: | Alcyon (top photo) Mulica Hill (bottom photo) |
Date: | 1960's |
Photographer: | Bob Sweeten (top) Unknown (bottom) |
Photo provided by: | Russ Dodge |
Comments: |
Senior Moment From Russ Dodge: So Ugly Yet Pretty... Mood's Change
Lew Mood sits in a 1957 version of his "Flying Zero" after a consi win at
Alcyon Speedway. The car number matches the driver well since Lew's nickname
was "The Flying Farmer" The handle appropriately given him because of his
driving skills displayed at South Jersey speedways and his agrarian
background from the family owned orchards. |
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09.03.09 | Rob Renninger | I remember that night at Nazareth... when
Len had his last race. I think it was the consi, and Lew was in the Maul
#111. This was when the grand stand was in the original position..... which
later became the back stretch. Lew went down old the back stretch and hit
the telephone poll and wood plank fence. After taking down what appeared 100
feet of fence the car started to barrel roll. It completely came apart.
Later I remember what I believe was a crew member sitting down next to me,
in a daze, and commenting that he thought the car would never stop rolling. Everyone around me also agreed, we all through it would never stop rolling. Lew was taken to the hospital in the ambulance and from what I remember they never gave an update on his condition. Also from what I remember Bud Olsen had not driven the car in some time, I believe he was injured at work and was not driving for a few weeks. Lew had been running the car for a few weeks at Nazareth. |
09.03.09 | Dave Daniels | The original, "Flying Farmer"! Nowadays some announcers like to throw that nickname around with current drivers which makes me cringe! There is only the one and that was Lew Mood !Lew passed away a few years ago as I was able to make contact with some of his family members on having him attend the SJ reunion. I was close to having him go there but his health was failing him at that point. RIP Lew. |
09.04.09 | R L | yes Budd Olsen was in this car at Flemington, its name there was MAUL MISSILE. early 60's. Always one of the cleanest cars around. |
09.04.09 | Bill Skinner | Rags Carter won the feature at Nazareth
8/9/64 on a night when seven top modified drivers were injured or badly
shaken up and their racers were either demolished or badly torn apart. All
of the mishaps took place in the last four laps of the feature. First Shorty Kerschner crashed. Then Lew Mood's car "went out of control at top speed on the back stretch, flipped four times, and came to a sickening halt. Mood was rushed to Easton Hospital" with a neck injury. Then Sal Moschella was knocked unconscious when his racer went out of control on the first turn and crashed into the concrete wall. Both Lew and Sal were appearing at Nazareth for the first time that season, both had a brand new car, and both seemed running well enough before the accidents to make a real run for the roses. After the Moschella accident, Bill Deskovich, Sonny Strupp, Bill Wimble and Roy Pauch were all wickedly shaken up when their racers piled up at high speed on the back stretch. Deskovich went to the hospital also. Thanks. Bill Skinner |
09.08.09 | George Perkins | Boy, I would love to see a color shot of that car. |
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