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Photo ID # c09.05.06_039_TAS_REA_0068_1
Car #: #39, #54 & #17
Driver (s) : Al Tasnady, Bobby Gerhart and Toby Tobias
Location: Reading
Date: October 20th, 1968
Photographer: Ronnie Guinther
Photo provided by: Ronnie Guinther
Comments: Comment from Ronnie: #39 Tas on the front stretch of Reading Fairgrounds, #17 Toby Tobias coming out of the pits and that's is the front end of the Bobby Gerhart/A.T Consoli #54 behind the 39.
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09/13/06 J Wagner This picture brings back maybe my greatest memories of Reading. The coupes coming out to do battle. As has been said many times, the greatest part about these cars is you could tell the cars apart without seeing the numbers. They all had slightly different bodies which gave them so personality. Thanks for the memories!
09/22/06 Fred Voorhees Joe, this is where I'm "one-up" on 'ya. I was about five years into the local racing at this point in racing history. I remember these cars well. In fact, Al Tasnady in the Dave Piscopo #39 was my very first favorite. Al Tasnady was a racing god back then.
09/22/06 3Wide Definitely 2 of life's regrets Fred was not ever getting to Reading until some genious decided to build a mall over it... and not being born just a few years earlier to see Jackie McLaughlin run and to see Tas run during his best years.
09/24/06 John Marelli What makes Ronnie's photo so fantastic is the way it's shot. Like so many photos in the "vault" it's not staged, or a professional camera position...As a fan this is just what I saw and remember, standing in the front paddock...It's as if an image was plucked from my memory bank and posted right here, Tas's big block 39, Dick Tobias pulling out of the pits, and Bobby Gerhart Sr's nose poking in from the left! Thanks Ronnie.

John Marelli
09/24/06 3-Wide Thanks for the great photo Ronnie, and thanks for the comment John.   That is exactly why the site was created.  I had a few Michalchuk pictures from the novelty stand, and a few more that I had taken over the years and I hoped that others had the same.  Just never realized how many of you guys would be willing to share, and how many others out there still feel so passionate about those nights of our youth spent at the local short track.  It was our time and I guess we're not ready to give up on it just yet.
     
     
     
     
     
     

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