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Car #: #78
Driver (s) : Bobby Blatt
Location: Reading, PA
Date: 1970
Photographer: Steve Strickler
Photo provided by: Steve Strickler
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02/29/04 Ken Hoshauer This car was eventually sold to Frank Periandri and driven by Al Tasnady. Tasnady captured the final feature win of his career in this car.
02/29/04 3-Wide Ken - What color and # was the car when campaigned by Al Tasnady?  I remember him in the Ruberti #97 late in his career before driving the Schloeder owned K46 Valiant.
03/11/04 Pilgrum The number was 260.  Frank owned a Sunoco in Reading and at that time Sunoco's high test was called 260.  (By the way, my brother in law's sister was married to Frank.)
01/30/05 Dave DiBlasi The nickname of this car was "something special".  It was built for Bobby Blatt to drive, however it was also driven by none other than Jan Opperman who I believe set a track record with it at Reading.

You are correct - the car was sold to Frank Periandri, but was not, and I repeat was not driven by Al Tasnady.  The car was driven for the Sunoco team by Leigh Earnshaw, Don Reily, and perhaps Hal Browning, but I'm not shure on that one.  Al Tasnady drove a Sunoco 260 that I believe was purchased from Warren Long, and was previously the 34.  Both that car and the one bought from Yingst were blue with yellow numbers as I recall.

The car was sold later to Tommy Hill, a Reading native, and I bought it from him and ran it for about one and a half years till it was destroyed in a second turn wreck at Big diamond with Aaron Brommer and Smokey Warren. Thanks for the memory...Dave DiBlasi

08/29/05 Ed Bobby Blatt was my uncle. The car was named the "Snoopy Special", not the Something Special.
09.25.17 Louis Long

The 260 was a former Warren Long 34 car driven by either Hal Browning or Harry Moore. The only thing that connects to the Blatt 78 is Yiengst Printing.  Harold Yiengst sponsored that 34 for Long and Browning. He owned the Moore version and he owned the Blatt 78. Warren Long built both of those 34 cars.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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