Go Merv! Growing up in Upstate New York, Merv was my favorite driver. He won the most prestigious modified races like the Race of Champions on pavement and the Schaefer 200 on dirt. His older brother, Roger was pretty good too, as was his nephew Gordie. Nice seeing this footage of him whooping up on the NASCAR boys.
I remember Ken Martin. He was the one keeping track, making stats, and counting laps lead between the great championship battle of Alan Kulwicki and Bill Elliott.
Yeah, every car was unique in itself, having been built in some 'crackshot mechanic's 2car garage! These cookie cutter cars today all look the same, except for the paint jobs! Credit the legendary late modified master builder Maynard Troyer, for starting the customer specific factory built type cars, with all the latest racing tech components, suspensions, body panels, (asphalt and dirt cars both), and today, many more specific builder race cars can be had. I loved the ingenuity of some of these legendary drivers turned builders too. Geoff Bodine teamed up with genius builder Bob Cuneo, of Chassis Dynamics fame to produce some great looking, fast race cars.
I wish these older racing events could be broadcast on cable tv during the winter '90 days till Daytona' months. I bet people would even pay a little extra, on top of thier ridiculously high cable monthly bill! If ya give the racing folks what they want, they'd pay for it for sure! Especially modified racing events!
The Rapid Roman goat ! I lived on Peck road Greece NY until i was 6 . We would ride our bikes past Maynard Troyer's shop . We would attend races at Spencer and Lancaster to watch my uncle Harold Kruspie run his street stock and watch the greats of the MODS !
Anyone know where I can find pics of interiors in these vintage modifieds? I'm trying to build some accurate scale models of these, and the only seats I can seem to find are simple drag racing type bucker seats. I would think that even in the '70's they would've had some kind of side support, unless they didn't mind ending up in the passenger side after a left turn! LOL! Anybody know where to find any?
They were crazy simple! Compared to todays seats, they were like sitting on a bucket! No head support other than a rudimentary headrest, non of the wraparound seats, just a simple seat often out of a production car! Rollcage padding, if any, was just pipe insulation- none of the actual impact absorbing foam like today.
Try Mike's decals. He bought out the Big Donkey resins company of all they're older racing stuff along with newer resin castings. You can get everything you'll need to build period correct stock cars! Seats, steering wheels, fuel cells, engines, fuel systems, from fuel injection stacks, to carburetors and headers, batteries, full chassis's, wheels and tires, bodies.I'd try there, look over the stuff at Mike's decals. Good luck and 'keep on buildin'!
The racing fans can only wait till the week before the Daytona 500, with the Bud Shootout the week before the 500, to get their racing fix on! But truthfully? The modifieds have raced all week long, at New Smyrna speedway in Florida, with they're final event on Saturday evening,, before Sundays Daytona 500. Wish the nightly events could be broadcast from there.
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Herman Blevins #36 Proud of my Grandpa. Getting it done!
I watched Herman on many Saturday nights at Bowman Gray Stadium, along with Paul Radford back in the 70’s!
Go Merv! Growing up in Upstate New York, Merv was my favorite driver. He won the most prestigious modified races like the Race of Champions on pavement and the Schaefer 200 on dirt. His older brother, Roger was pretty good too, as was his nephew Gordie. Nice seeing this footage of him whooping up on the NASCAR boys.
Greetings from Syracuse ... Loved Merv's #58 at SDW, of course, winning it two years in a row. 😅
I remember Ken Martin. He was the one keeping track, making stats, and counting laps lead between the great championship battle of Alan Kulwicki and Bill Elliott.
Not one car was alike back then.
That was a day to be alive.
Yeah, every car was unique in itself, having been built in some 'crackshot mechanic's 2car garage! These cookie cutter cars today all look the same, except for the paint jobs! Credit the legendary late modified master builder Maynard Troyer, for starting the customer specific factory built type cars, with all the latest racing tech components, suspensions, body panels, (asphalt and dirt cars both), and today, many more specific builder race cars can be had. I loved the ingenuity of some of these legendary drivers turned builders too. Geoff Bodine teamed up with genius builder Bob Cuneo, of Chassis Dynamics fame to produce some great looking, fast race cars.
I wish these older racing events could be broadcast on cable tv during the winter '90 days till Daytona' months. I bet people would even pay a little extra, on top of thier ridiculously high cable monthly bill! If ya give the racing folks what they want, they'd pay for it for sure! Especially modified racing events!
am i the only one that just wants to see the footage and not hear these people talk over it for almost a half hour
Yea, and that racing was far more interesting to me than anything cup has ever offered! Now or then!
Yes shut up…I agree
The Rapid Roman goat ! I lived on Peck road Greece NY until i was 6 . We would ride our bikes past Maynard Troyer's shop . We would attend races at Spencer and Lancaster to watch my uncle Harold Kruspie run his street stock and watch the greats of the MODS !
Anyone know where I can find pics of interiors in these vintage modifieds? I'm trying to build some accurate scale models of these, and the only seats I can seem to find are simple drag racing type bucker seats. I would think that even in the '70's they would've had some kind of side support, unless they didn't mind ending up in the passenger side after a left turn! LOL! Anybody know where to find any?
They were crazy simple! Compared to todays seats, they were like sitting on a bucket! No head support other than a rudimentary headrest, non of the wraparound seats, just a simple seat often out of a production car! Rollcage padding, if any, was just pipe insulation- none of the actual impact absorbing foam like today.
Try Mike's decals. He bought out the Big Donkey resins company of all they're older racing stuff along with newer resin castings. You can get everything you'll need to build period correct stock cars! Seats, steering wheels, fuel cells, engines, fuel systems, from fuel injection stacks, to carburetors and headers, batteries, full chassis's, wheels and tires, bodies.I'd try there, look over the stuff at Mike's decals. Good luck and 'keep on buildin'!
Didn’t the Modifieds all show up with full body cars at some point? I remember Richie Evens at Daytona in a full body orange 61.
Oh yes!
Not for the road couse/permatex. It was for the full 2.5 mile oval. Superspeedway modified race. The orange 61 Camaro dominated 79 and 80
That was the year Evans drove 200mph + in his camaro .
They should have brought the ground pounders back for this weekend as well
The racing fans can only wait till the week before the Daytona 500, with the Bud Shootout the week before the 500, to get their racing fix on! But truthfully? The modifieds have raced all week long, at New Smyrna speedway in Florida, with they're final event on Saturday evening,, before Sundays Daytona 500. Wish the nightly events could be broadcast from there.
It was so long ago that the infield road course was modified since then
Have a great day
We need the Next Gen cars to run the roadcourse
Upload the superspeedway modified races from 78-80. Waltrip won one, the goat won the next two
I am interested to run on a new road course without practice!
360p? Dudes
Dude. What do you expect from 1975?
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You two guys are so, so sad
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