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Photo ID # J05.24.13_021_NEA_FLM_0070_1
Car #: #21
Driver (s) : Ray Neary
Location: Flemington Speedway
Date: 1971?
Photographer: not sure... might be Ace Lane
Photo provided by: Ray Neary, Fred Menschner and Phil Spino (The Breakfast Club)
Comments: Comment:  Not sure where to begin... The rake of the body, the smallness of the original window openings, the big 'ol steering wheel... and the big ol' injectors poking through the hood...  It all adds up to "cool."  This sedan, built around the 1970/1971 time when square tubing looked like the way to go definitely had the right look but if you talk to driver Ray Neary and car owner Fred Menschner, it just never got around as good as the coupe that they teamed up with for the 1970 season.  So while it may not be remembered for it's on track performance, it will always have a place here in The Vault and will still pin the cool meter!
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05.24.13 Paul Madsen I Remember that car was hard to pass, when it was sideways it was so long it took up most of the track!
09.12.13 Fred Menschner

Joe, You are correct. We built this car in the Fulton street, Trenton NJ garage and used square tubing, much easier to weld together. The same time we were building this car Roy Shillings was building a sportsman car in the same garage in the next bay. Roy was a great help to Ray and myself on most of our race cars. We changed back and forth between carburetor and fuel injection trying to get the traction we needed,  never did work out the way we wanted it. The reason for the big steering wheel was this car had no power steering. Of course a Tom Backes lettering job.

I remember catching my pants on fire while welding the seat brackets and letting them burn till I was done welding, because the welding position was so difficult to get in..lol.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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