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Photo ID # c02.11.06_357_JEL_UNK_0070_1
Car #: #357
Driver (s) : Butch Jelley
Location: Unknown
Date: 1970's
Photographer: Curt Gebhart (Thanks Jim Biehl)
Photo provided by: John Grady
Comments: Plenty of room for the kids... and makes one cool looking racecar body if the mood hits you...   Here's probably the best thing that could ever happen to a Vega Station wagon.  

I don't know if I ever seen it run as it was mainly driven at NY tracks, but it always caught my eye in AARN!

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02/11/06 Bill Hanna I am guessing this is taken at Lebanon Valley, where Jelley raced most of his career.
02/14/06 Matt Bahre This car is the 1974 Tobias 4 coil chassis that Toby Tobias had built for Eddie Delmolino and owner Austin Dickerman of Vermont. Tobias wanted to penetrate the NY market and he worked closely that year with Delmolino who won 11 times at Lebanon Valley with the car shod in a Vega and then Gremlin body.

The car ran great everywhere it was raced and Delmolino in this car actually set the fastest lap at Syracuse that fall on his second try at qualifying as the transmission had popped out of gear on his run for the pole earlier. He started 7th!

The car proved to be a one of a kind as an exact duplicate of it built by Tobias for us in 75 never did perform the same. Judging from the tree lines I'd say this photo is actually at Saratoga NY or Devils Bowl VT. Also, this photo was post Dickerman ownership so I would put it in the 76 - 77 era.
12.30.09 Bill I grew up in Brandon, VT and went to school with Quinnevilles just about across the street from Dickerman's.

I'll guess it is not at the Valley, or it would have been a Chuck Ely photo. I forget how, but Chuck driver of Treamont's 115 at the time was related to Butch. It be Devil's Bowl as the pit is outside the track.

This car actually had a driver adjustable weight settings.  They ran mostly Albany Fonda when Eddie Demalino drove it and came close to a Fonda championship.
     
     
     

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