01.01.03_089_STI_UNK_0060

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Date:	Visitor's Name:	Comment:
01/01/03	Ed Duncan	The photo is at the Trenton 20 in 1967. Another great picture - Ed
11/23/04	Steve Cameron	I believe these cars were owned by Ron Smith of Mt Holly, NJ. If I remember correctly, the car on the back of the truck was previously driven by a driver from Florida named Bobby Brack.
11/25/04	Barry Hulse	It blew my mind as a kid that someone could have two identical cars. Don Stives, in my opinion, was by far the best overall driving talent I ever saw. He could make any car fly. I remember him losing a motor once in his regular ride and jumping into a regularly rear of the pack car to try to stay in the points. Those cars were instantly competitive, Don driving his heart out! Saw him win a race one night in Brunhozel's 8X with a flat left front for half the race!
01/10/04	Kevin Varanyak	Yes this is the old trenton speedway but i beleave the year to be earlier than 1967?
10/11/05	Robert Stives	These cars were both owned by Ron Smith, a contractor from the Bordentown/Mt. Holly area. Previously, Ron and his were involved in hydroplane racing. A bad crash left Ron's dad blind, so they got out of boat racing and into stockars. The two coupes were painted alike, but there were a lot of differences. One was an asphalt car. The other was their dirt car which they built or bought to run the brand new East Windsor Speedway. The asphalt car had a small block Chevy. It was originally owned by Ralph Derienzo (sp?), a machine shop owner from somewhere near Wall Stadium. Ralph had the car setup as a sportsman (when they ran two classes together) with one alcohol carburetor. Dad drove the car for Ralph, and for Ronnie after he bought it. Ronnie turned it into a modified by bolting on a set of Hilborn injectors. The dirt car had a big block Chevy. One time they wrecked the dirt car, so they put the dirt tires on the asphalt car and found out it handled better than the dirt car on dirt! With this kind of rig and two cars this crew could and would go anywhere. Some of the places they went were Reading, Hershey Stadium (they ran sprints and modifieds on asphalt together), Wall Stadium, Trenton, Old Bridge and East Windsor. One Sunday, a shower washed out the races at East Windsor. After a little too much time of hanging around they decided to hightail it for Old Bridge. Too late! They were already running the consolation race. Ron also wanted to get into big time racing. He bought a Grand National Chevelle, and they went to Daytona that year. I was going to get to watch Dad run the car at Trenton. The night before the race, however, someone broke into the garage. They stole the carburetor and intake manifold off the car, and it was a mad scramble to make the race. The drive shaft fell out on the backstretch on the first lap. That was all I got to see of the Chevelle.

Photo ID #	01.01.03_089_STI_UNK_0060_1
Car #:	89
Driver (s) :	Don Stives
Location:	Unknown
Date:	1960's
Photographer:	$Bill
Photo provided by:	$Bill
Comments:	Don Stives not leaving much to chance here... Great driver on the asphalt and on dirt! (I think he actually prefers to slide on the clay myself!)