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Photo ID # 12.26.03_005_UNK_NAZ_0050_1
Car #: #5
Driver (s) : Unknown (Elwood Hibbs) Thanks Rob
Location: Nazareth, PA
Date: 1950's
Photographer: John (Jack) Reilly
Photo provided by: Mark Burd
Comments: We're not sure of the drivers taken during the action at Nazareth Speedway in the 50's.
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01/09/04 Rob Renninger This picture was taken at the old Nazareth 1/2 mile speedway in 1960, and if I remember correctly, opening day.  The #5 was driven, Elwood Hibbs, don't ask me how I remember that, I just do.  The accident took place, in what was than called the Strictly Stock division, Feature between the old 3rd and 4th turn, later to become the 1st and 2nd.  The #44 on the right was, again if I remember correctly a young Bobby Botcher.

(After I wrote you the last email, I did some digging in my own personal vaults.  The driver of the #5 was Elwood Nibbs.   This picture taken by Jack Reilly was used nationally on the cover of Illustrated Speedway News.  I found the original picture that I cut out and mounted in an old racer scrap book way back in 1960.)

02/05/04 Bill Miller I hope to see more Nazareth pictures here.  I grew up near this race track in the 50's, and sometimes we would see a race car down the bank on the outside of the track, in the trees along route 191, on Monday mornings.  It would take them awhile to remove the cars.  On the other end of the track (turns one and two), was parking, and sometimes a race car would find itself through the fence on top of spectator's cars!
03/14/05 Kevin Inglin My brother - Joe Inglin Jr. went in that same hole one night while racing in the late seventy's. In the seventies the track used to have railroad ties standing on end around the first and second turns. At some point they replaced them and threw several of the old ties in the hole from the picture. When my brother went off the track, one of the ties stuck through the side of his sportsman while he was sliding toward the infield. The tie got stuck between two of the frame rails and the car went up in the air like a pole vault and rested straight up like a lollipop for a moment before it came back down on its wheels. From the pits we all vividly remember seeing the number on the roof facing us like a sign. Joe was fortunate to walk away from that one and it took quite a while for them to dislodge the post from the car.
04/22/06 LBDavis I think the car was owned by my dad Bud Davis.

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