| Photo ID # | d03.31.07_044_COF_REA_0075_1 |
| Car #: | #44 |
| Driver (s) : | Red Coffin |
| Location: | Reading |
| Date: | 1975 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Photo provided by: | Clark Renninger |
| Comments: | Comment from Clark: Red Coffin in the Dick Meals 44 at the Reading Fairgrounds in 1975. The car had a Pinto body on a JT Burnett frame. Red won back to back features in the car at Statewide Speedway (Bridgeport) on 5/16/75 and Reading on 5/18/75. This photo was bought at the track at Reading. Photographer unknown. |
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| Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
| 03/31/07 | Fred Voorhees | Wow, is that a hand brake I see sticking up inside of the car? |
| 04/04/07 | Bill Hanna | Sure is, Fred. Simplified way to keep the throttle full and yet have car control. |
| 04/04/07 | 3-Wide | Always a man of very few words, I remember once getting Al Michalchuk to tell me that he used to drive it as far into turn 3 as he could at East Windsor and just like Bill said above, he'd grab a handful of brake to help set the car sideways, and be right back on the gas like it never happened. |
| 04/28/07 | Dave Schittler | Thanks for the picture Clark. I'm happy to finally see a pic of Red in the
44 on the website. This is a great looking car. It is a Pinto body, but the frame was custom built right there in the garage at Dick's mushroom houses. I was only 12, but I remember being in the garage when my dad and the other guys were laying out all the tubing. This picture must be from opening day in 1975. Look how white the wheels are. It is was also one of the few times when they painted the letters on the tires. After Red won the two features you mention, the car ended up on its roof outside of the turn four wall at Reading the next weekend. Red jumped a wheel on Billy Ellis' car as they were coming to take the green for a heat. |
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