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| Photo ID # | J10.30.13_292_016_FLM_0072_1 |
| Car #: | #16 & #292 |
| Driver (s) : | Dick Collins and Al Michalchuk |
| Location: | Flemington Speedway |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Photographer: | Ace Lane |
| Photo provided by: | Ace Lane |
| Comments: |
Comment: Here's a great picture from a Saturday afternoon in
1972 at
Flemington Speedway in Flemington's first season of their newly created
Rookie Division. That's Dick Collins in what was a light blue/aqua
colored #16 and Al Michalchuk in a dark blue #292. This is probably one of the first pictures ever taken of the #292 as Al's exciting driving style meant that this dent free coupe wouldn't stay dent free for very long. Over the next 2 seasons, more and more of the body would get cut away until finally what was left of the car after a few rebuilds was sold off at the end of the 1973 season to Bunkie Robbins and ended up with Lenny Martin Jr, who drove it at East Windsor a handful of times as a #292. Not sure what happened to it after that. Dick Collins would become a steady Sportsman competitor and would later campaign a Vega bodied sportsman with the same #. I always associate Dick Collins with Flemington as he was one of the first cars that I always remember taking to the track during those early afternoon sportsman warmups. It's because of the races that I watched when I was 11 years old at Flemington and East Windsor, with drivers like Al Michalchuk and Dick Collins that created the memories that inspired this website. |