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Photo ID #	f09.10.09_024_PLO_NAZ_0071_1
Car #:	#24
Driver (s) :	Stan Ploski
Location:	Nazareth, PA
Date:	1971
Photographer:	Unknown
Photo provided by:	Kevin Budden/Stan Ploski III
Comments:	I've never considered myself an expert when it comes to the lineage of cars but I'm gonna take a shot at this one... and then I'm going to step back and let you guys take if from there... If I'm right, the car above is one of the most significant cars of the early 70's. I'm thinking that this is the first car modified that Ken Brenn Sr. ever bought, and the first car that Stan ever drove for Ken. If so, this car was purchased from Budd Olsen and repainted/renumbered to be the first of the soon to become famous Ken Brenn owned yellow #24 coupes. Mr. Brenn told me that the first time he ever saw a modified race, was as a car owner.... Sure he had been at tracks with his midget team when modifieds were running, but being focused on the midgets, he never really watched a modified race until he bought this car, and brought it to the track. I don't know all the details, but I believe that Will Cagle was slated to drive the car first and may have done so and won with it at Williams Grove. Then, I'm not sure if Will had another commitment or what happened, but Stan got behind the wheel and won the following weekend, possibly back to back features... the first few times in the car! I don't know what the final win tally was for this Olsen built car, but it was a dominant car to say the least in the early 70's. I'll let you guys take it from here, but I'm pretty sure that this coupe was followed up a year or 2 later with a Floyd Trevis built coupe (possibly 2 of them), and then later a Gremlin built by Bob Rossell, and then the King cars... As far as what happened to these great coupes, I Mr. Brenn said that he sold one to Jimmy McGuire which Jimmy renumbered to #37 and drove in the sportsman division (in 74?) I think... I also know that Tony K had one that he painted red and renumbered #11 for Lee McBride to drive in the mid 70's. There is also a photo of a former Brenn Coupe #88 that was driven by Doug Cranstoun in the late 70's. Not sure if they were all the same car, or all different, but here it is 40 years later and I'm still ramblin' on about those Brenn Sr. owned coupes!

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09.14.09	George Gwynn	As I remember it.....as I close in on serious senior citizenship.......Ken Brenn's first race, with the newly purchased Budd Olsen #24, came at the one and only All Star Modified show at Williams Grove during a mid-week special show. I attended that race and I am almost positive that Stan Ploski was the driver for that race and he won rather handily. Stan drove the car for a period thereafter and I don't remember Wiley Will ever behind the wheel, but he might have been. George Gwynn Frederick, MD
09.14.09	3-Wide	That sounds right George. I know that the car won not only the first night out, but possibly the first 3 times out. Not sure if Will actually drove the car or was only scheduled to drive it and couldn't because of another commitment, but either way, Will's loss was Stan's gain and we all know what Stan did in the ride for the next 2 years... Those were some of my all time favorite days to go to the races.
09.16.09	Charlie Miller	First thing , What a beautiful racer . This is what modifieds are suppose to look like ! I also was at the Grove for the All-Star race (only 13 cars showed ) , and Stan the Man was in this car ,winning with ease. We didn't know it was their first race. Imagine learning something new after all these years.
09.07.10	George Dealaman	There seems to be some confusion about the Williams Grove All-Star Race. According to the AARN Sept.8,1971 edition Will Cagle did indeed win the race driving the Brenn 24 on Thursday night September 2. This came after Stan won at Flemington the night before only to follow it with another win on Saturday during the fair when he beat TAS driving the 73. The first five at the Grove where Will Cagle, Bobby Malzahn, Tighe Scott, Richie Evans and Jerry Cook talk about some All Stars.
01.13.11	Don Riggs	A little tid bit about Jimmy, he drove the 'Tiger Special' sprint car back in the day with Andretti and Foyt. My father was a mechanic for that car. Jimmy flipped the sprinter and lost his right arm. without his natural arm he could not handle the bigger race cars any longer, so he bought the car from Brenn and ran sportsman with it. He had a mechanical arm that he would would clamp to the steering wheel.
06.11.11	Charlie Miller	George you are right! Will Cagle did win the All-Star Racing League race at Williams Grove Speedway . I had to go dig my Dad's program out of storage to verify it. It's funny what the old memory "thinks " it remembers, compared to the facts. Somehow my mind said #24 +, Ken Brenn , = Stan Ploski .
06.11.11	3-Wide	At the Flemington Historical Society Meeting on 6/7/11, Stan mentioned that this was his favorite car. He said it handled unbelievably well. He said that they replaced it with a Trevis built car but that this car was the best handling car he ever drove.