| Photo ID # | c11.12.06_074_OLS_UNK_0070_1 |
| Car #: | #74 and #17 |
| Driver (s) : | Walt Olsen and Dick "Toby" Tobias |
| Location: | not sure... |
| Date: | 1970's |
| Photographer: | Bob Sweeten |
| Photo provided by: | Rob Sweeten |
| Comments: | Another
great photo from Bob Sweeten of Walt Olsen along side of Toby. The info provided
with this photo said that it was from Bridgeport, but the wall and fence in the background
has us thinking that its from somewhere else. This is the same team that Bobby Braxton drove for in the 1970's. |
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| Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
| 11/12/06 | Dave Daniels. | It looks like this shot was taken at Reading, possibly in 1976. |
| 11/12/06 | Dean Spangler Sr. | That photo is from Reading Fairgrounds in turns 1&2. |
| 11/14/06 | Matt Bahre | It was 1976 as Olsen and Wichecki parted company before the end of the
season. This was one of the six cars Weld built the winter of 75/76. Also... An interesting fact about the very fast Tobias car that is pictured here. This car was built by the super mechanic "Davey Brown Sr." who worked in the Tobias shop at that time. This car had a (engine below the frame rail) design which was totally diffferent then the cars Tobias was selling to the rest of the world in 75/76. Those cars had the engine above the frame rails. This car was sprung extremely soft for cars of the time. I believe Tobias took the pole in both 74 & 75 at Syracuse and won the race in 74 with this car wrenched by Brown. |
| 02/12/07 | T.Long | Brownie didn't work for Toby at the shop, but was his mechanic. Working for Toby during the 70's, I know the frames we built in the speed shop, and like many of the earlier sprint and silver spring 30x90 frames, which we built with high rail and belly pans, this car was built the same way. It had inboard frt. canilever coils in front of the axle with rear coils mounted on trailing arms, which soften the spring rates. In the mid 70's we changed the frames to a mid rail w/ torsion optional. My #27 frames, had inboards behind the frt. axle, but for safety reason (feet lower than main rail) and a lower sprun weight, I choose to build low rail design modifieds. |
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