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| Photo ID # | M07.20.16_073_PET_UNK_0075_2 |
| Car #: | #73 |
| Driver (s) : | Steve Peterson |
| Location: | Unknown |
| Date: | 1975 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Photo provided by: | Steve Peterson |
| Comments: |
Comment from Steve:
This is the car I ran in the rookie division in 1975. I
was still in High School at the time but I really wanted to get into racing
so I (my parents) bought this car in 1974 (cannot remember from who) and I
ran rookies in 1975. There is another photo of this car in The Vault:
https://3widespicturevault.com/Forever_Young_PICS_&_VITALS/M07.16.16_073_UNK_FLM_0075RY_1.htm
That picture might be the night I started on the pole with Billy Pauch on my outside. He proceeded to blow my doors off and I ended up blowing up my transmission! Did not matter to me though as I was having fun and learning a lot about racing and the cars. Later, on I hitched up with Bobby Malzahn at Newton Speed Center in Sussex NJ - building cars/pitting for him and rebuilt one of his old 99's pictured in The Vault on page 63 (Car #21): https://3widespicturevault.com/70spics&vitals/d11.14.07_021_PET_UNK_0070_1.htm I have attached a really bad pic of me (but the car looks good!) sitting on the car just before my HS graduation along with a couple of others. I went to college a few years later for mechanical engineering and had to give up racing. If I knew vintage was going to be popular, I would have kept one of my cars - I really miss the aforementioned 21! The bottom picture is of the #73 on the trailer in the summer of 1975 next to where we were digging the foundation of the house I still live in. I am 59 now and when my kids get out of college in a couple of years, maybe, well just maybe ....I could get a vintage car to play with???:) I did not accomplish much in racing but I learned, made friends, had a lot of fun and have great memories, which is all anyone could ask for - as long as your not racing to pay the bills! |