Photo ID # | 07.15.03_051_YOU_UNK_0070_1 |
Car #: | #51 |
Driver (s) : | Wayne Young |
Location: | Nazareth, PA (1/2 Mile) (Thanks Walter and Jim) |
Date: | 1972 |
Photographer: | Bob Snyder? (not sure...) |
Photo provided by: | Jim Young (Race Songs) |
Comments: | Comment from Jim: The car was a Nash Metropolitan, Blue and White in color , number 51, owned by John Bates (see note below) and Ronnie Kane from Milburn, N.J., was driven by Wayne Young (Photo Enclosed) and was nicknamed the "Space Machine" |
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Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
07/15/03 | 3-Wide | "Ground Control to Major Tom......" That is one wild looking ride! Please provide date, location and photographer info if known. Thanks - |
07/15/03 | Jim Murrow | WOW !!!!! - I was living in Salt Lake City, when this thing ran. I never saw it before. That's gotta be the meanest looking Metropolitan ever! - And with a 454 Chevy up there, it must have been as mean as it looked. Great looking car, though. If I had ever seen this thing, you can bet it would have been one of my choices for your trivia question. Thanks, Jim Murrow |
07/15/03 | Jim Young | The year was 1972 and the location was Nazareth, Pa. 1/2 mile. On the outside is Buzzie Reutimann's 00. I'm not 100 % sure of the photographer, but I believe it was Bob Snyder........Jim Young |
07/15/03 | Walter Onora | I remember this particular car. Looks like Nazareth(1/2 mile). Joe Conti, also drove for Kane/Bate team. I know John Bate was one of the top drivers at Weissglass Stadium back in the 60"s. |
07/15/03 | 3-Wide | Now that you mention it Walter, I do remember Joe Conti and I do remember him at one time driving a strange looking little creating #51 and I guess this was it! |
07/19/03 | Tom Berry | This car was actually built in Whitehouse ,N.J. by Walt Byers, Jim Martz and myself for the Bates/Kane owners. It started life as a 37 chevy coupe, red # 51 and was raced at Nazareth and Flemington by Jim Martz, until the team parted ways and the metropolitan body was installed. |
03/07/06 | StevPrcr | I would just like to make a small correction 'twas John Bates brother Louie who co-owned this beautiful coupe in which I was told always ran very well but could never quite pull off the big win |
06/05/07 | Ron S. | As a kid, I lived in Springfield, which is one town over from Millburn, which is where this car was garaged. I would drive by the garage many times with my family and ask them what kind of car it was? Since my family knew nothing about stock car racing and since I was way too young to know anything, I never did get an answer. By the time I was old enough, this car and the garage were long gone. The building still exists. It is now a store that sells Lionel model trains. I still drive by now and then and hope that if I give a quick look, the garage and car will still be there! The garage and car are long gone, but the memory lives on! |
06/05/07 | 3Wide | Thanks for the comment. Once a racecar is spotted somewhere, a real racefan can't help but look every time they go by for the rest of their life, still hoping to catch a glimpse, no matter how much time changes the location through the years! |
04.19.09 | Richard Coleman | Wayne Young's father was Charley Young, the well-know (then anyway) rolled up sleeves piano player in the Lehigh Valley. He used to pit for his son in his night club get up and wave to the fans, |
09.20.15 | Dave B. |
I grew up with that car . The garage that the car was worked on was my Grandads: John Bate Towing and Repair . I have a lot of photos of the car. |