05/02/03 |
Jim Murrow |
Thanks again, Russ. All of my pictures were lost by my moving
company about ten years ago, (along with about 40 Alcyon Programs), so it's wonderful to
see some of these cars again. In 1965-66, Sonny was building a Sportsman car for me at his
shop on route 47. This was after the Speed shop was closed, and Sonny was renting a house
with a 2 car garage from Walt Kinsley. Kinsley's race shop was next door, so it was quite
a hub of racing activity at the time. Sonny was building Stan Ploski's cars, and Jackie
Hamilton's # 16, which Sonny later bought and campaigned at Reading with Rags Carter as
the driver. Budd Olsen was a regular visitor to the Dornberger shop, as he was building
the #83 car, and had a lot of questions. One night he popped in and told Sonny he just
bought a lift from a gas station, and wanted to know where he should mount the axles to
make a race trailer out of it. Sonny took a piece of chaulk, and calculated it on the
floor of the garage. I later bought the trailer, after Jackie got killed, and that was the
best trailer I ever owned. It would pull straight, with no swaying at 85 miles an hour,
EMPTY! Sonny was a genius. At that time, Bobby Allen had just come up from Fla. with a
super modified, and he wasopperating out of Sonny's shop, Fellow Floridans, Bobby Brack,
and Pee Wee Griffin were based next door at Walt KInsley's shop, along with Kinsley's own
# 325 car, soit was almost like Gasoline Alley! What a time! Thanks Again, Jim Murrow |