YOUR FAVORITE MODIFIED.....

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

YOUR FAVORITE MODIFIED.....

Date: Thu Feb 5 20:15:35 2009

geoff bodine valient 99

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Is that the car they called "The White Tornado" ?

Date: Thu Feb 5 21:09:16 2009

no,the valient was blue white gold around 1969-72

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Ahhh, I was thinking Valient as a car owner. Well I would have been just born to 3 for that car.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

There has been many great looking cars over the years for sure, but I've always been a fan of concept cars or cars with "catchy nicknames"

So the #711 "Chevy under glass" of Bob Polverari comes to mind.....

Date: Fri Feb 6 07:28:53 2009

openwheelracer wrote:

There has been many great looking cars over the years for sure, but I've always been a fan of concept cars or cars with "catchy nicknames"

So the #711 "Chevy under glass" of Bob Polverari comes to mind.....

Mario Fiore's Screamin Yellow Zonker.
A pinto driven by the late great Gary Coulturi

yankeeracer · YankeeRacer.com

I've got several but this is one of them.
1979 at Thompson Speedway.

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Great shot Yankee. My Uncle and cousin both helped Roland with that car quite a bit. I got to know the family very well, great people.

yankeeracer · YankeeRacer.com

Who are your uncle and cousin? Small world :).

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Stan and Wayne Wildermuth

afohlin · Car Owner

Muffy is you cousin? That's weird. It really is a small world

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Wel I never knew he was called Muffy, but yes Wayne is my cousin.

Date: Sat Feb 7 15:22:32 2009

Bob Cuneo's (Chassis Dynamics) Bobby Vee piloted Omni #2 wedge shaped beauty. It definitely had Nascar officials scratching their heads.

Date: Sat Feb 7 15:37:50 2009

The #21 Spafco creation with the rounded body. I think Rick Fuller was driving it at the time as Polar was the sponsor-white with green #'s. I remembered it being featured in Stock Car Racing at the time. Nothing else looked like it-as always a beautiful job by Art Barry and the shop. Can't seem to find any pics or I'd post them-anybody?

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:00:50 2009

Another beautiful Chassis Dynamics creation was the "Mystic Missile" Orange Shelby (with sail panels) piloted by Bugsy in 1984

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:05:32 2009

How about Ernie Wilsberg's Troyer 5 with Greg Sacks in '82

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:07:22 2009

Jiggs Beetham's #18 Golden Hurricane Coupe

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:12:29 2009

Hey other anon.......How about the Tulba Brothers Lindblad Chassis #11 Pinto

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:19:00 2009

Hey Annons, how about venturing outside the Bowl..... Cal Smales 41 with Greg Sacks in '80

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:24:53 2009

How about the unique "driver forward sitting" Troyer car that Jacques Villaneuve drove a couple of times

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:27:07 2009

Hey if we are on NY cars, How about the Magic Shoe's Crazy 8....Potato Wagon.

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:29:31 2009

Does anyone remember Lee Allard's wild creation from back in the late 80's. It was so radical that NASCAR outlawed it. I believe it only ran a few times and was destroyed at Oswego with Mike Stefanik at the helm.

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:49:17 2009

Okay Annon- Good One... if we are gonna start wrecking beautiful machine's ....How about the Dick Armstrong owned -Hop Harrington prepared -Jack Tant powered Big Red #1....that Ray Hendrick cart-wheeled down the Thompson front stretch into the pits. Then the old bastard climbed right out of the crumbled heap and walked away! I remember Richie Evans telling me "I hope I'm that tough when I'm his age!".

Date: Sat Feb 7 16:56:18 2009

Didn't Stefanik almost duplicate that same wreck at Thompson just a few weeks later in one of Richie's back up cars?

Date: Sat Feb 7 17:09:30 2009

Yeah... I was there for that one too - It was not Richie's back-up car it was Ray Allard's 66.... He tangled with Richie in practice - Richie did not budge when Stefanik crowded him and proceeded to do a "Hendrick" encore. Boy was Allard pissed! Remember Richie had let Stefanik drive his back-up before at Thompson... maybe you you had a brain hic-up!

Date: Sat Feb 7 17:11:59 2009

Oh that's right! My mistake, I guess I'm just getting old!

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

The Bobby Vee Omni, is that the car that had Busch Beer for a sponsorship?

Date: Sat Feb 7 19:35:20 2009

I think it was the Plymouth Arrow that had the Busch sponsorship. The Omni bodied car was a LOT more radical!

Date: Sat Feb 7 21:42:29 2009

Heres one- Don Flynn's blue and chrome Bradley Air Parking #25 pinto

Date: Sat Feb 7 23:38:56 2009

Hmmmm, I did not know you were talking about me behind my back....lol

Muffy

Muffy · Crew Member

I fogot to give my opinion.....I have to agree with WhelenModifiedTour for the same "sentimental reason"...he's my dad. One change though, I liked the 1940 gold coupe #22 that he ran at Thompson. It was the fastest one he ever built. That was soooo long ago, he had a beer keg as a fuel cell, raced in a t-shirt and jeans and wore indian moccasins for shoes. Man have times changed.

Good to know you are still out there Eggs. Look me up, I am at www.KARSeries.webs.com

Date: Sun Feb 8 19:21:11 2009

Anyone remember Rick Erlandson's "ahead of its time" #76 Pinto at The Bowl? A beautiful car that met its demise with the back gate opening off of turn two.

Date: Sun Feb 8 19:51:01 2009

That had to be one of the Bowl's worst wrecks!!! That was a nice car... did he ever bring out another car... I'm drawing a blank!
One of my favorites was Chargin' Charlie J's radical Chevette bodied #1 in the early 80's. The body had an offset to it, if you remember the right rear shock tower was totally outside the body.

Date: Mon Feb 9 19:53:48 2009

Don Ling sure had some nice looking cars. I even think he may have been the one that purchased the "toned downed" Bobby Vee/Bob Cuneo Omni.

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Well getting away from a "sentimental" pick, I think that Maynard Troyer's Ford Falcon he ran around 1968-1969 was a pretty neat looking car.

Date: Tue Feb 10 23:12:08 2009

I have to throw this Mod into the mix, even though it is a Dirt Mod. Gary Balough's black #112 "Batmobile" with ground effects he showed up with at Syracuse was absolutely sweet!!! It has changed Dirt mod racing ever since that weekend.

Date: Thu Feb 12 20:55:51 2009

Jim Soucy's black Troyer #17 "Bandit". That tough looking Pinto featured a long sloped nose with a single bar front bumper, gold-leaf numbered ... big block powered early 80's creation ... with Maynard Troyer at the helm.

Date: Sun Feb 15 03:04:42 2009

King Racings 2004 Z06 Corvette look a like was sweet! Where is that pic at Wall with the Z06 pace car with the same colors?

Date: Wed Feb 18 16:25:06 2009

MY favorite modified is going to be new blue # 3 the boehlers have a bad a$$ ride comming out of their chicken coupe.....just look towards the front of the feild in 09 everyone will be chasing the kid from connecticut biggrin

Date: Wed Feb 18 19:00:01 2009

Art Barry's Spearpoint 21, the '84 version... wine colored CD Omni with multi colored stripes. Greg Sacks was at the controls. The car was featured in Stock Car Racing mag.

Date: Sat Feb 21 12:29:32 2009

I

have to agree Iwas there and saw with my own eyrs that is one Bad A$$ ride for sure.Lenny would be proud of them but he would say its way to shiney.Old Blue#3 will always be my favorite especially that new on it looks fast just sitting there.A close second would be a maroon Flying 70 driven by Sal Dee at Thompson back in the mid sixtys that was one bad ride too.

Date: Tue Mar 17 17:23:28 2009

Has to be the #20 Czarnecki Brothers Coupe driven by Bobby Stefanik at the Park from 68-72.

Battles with Greco and Polverari absolutely defined racing at Riverside!!!!!!!

Man do I miss the place!!!

Muffy · Crew Member

Hmmmmmm where have I seen this car before - and I have more of them too..

-- Edited by Muffy on Thursday 2nd of April 2009 01:56:43 PM

WhelenModifiedTour · WMT Moderator

Ahhhh, I LOVE that car Muffy!!!!! I'm interested in the MORE pictures as well. Thanx for posting that, brings back a lot of memories.