| Photo ID # | 02.20.03_020_HEA_UNK_0080_1 |
| Car #: | #20 |
| Driver (s) : | Brett Hearn |
| Location: | Flemington, NJ??? |
| Date: | 1980's |
| Photographer: | John Lucas |
| Photo provided by: | John McCaughey |
| Comments: | Brett Hearn - Many have raced locally. Only a few have made a living at it.... |
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| Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
| 03/01/03 | Todd L | The Jet is one of my favorite drivers to watch anywhere, Brett Hearn still gets it done after all these years. How many remember his brief NASCAR effort with backing from longtime sponsor Wheels Discount Auto Parts? |
| 03/23/03 | Todd L | Brett's best finish in the Busch Series was a top 10 at Dover in 1988 I believe he started 26th. Todd L |
| 04/23/03 | Dominic Korzecki | This was the car Hearn had before the Freightliner...won some but nothing compared to the Freightliner at Flemington. |
| 05/01/03 | Todd L | I hate to (correct) Dominic but Brett had Wheels Discount Auto before he went to drive the Freightliner # 6 for Ray Bramall at Orange County. Brett was never a regular at any NJ track having only been to EWS once, Flemington and Bridgeport where he has had some success. Brett is now a visitor to NES twice a year where I think he has a victory or two. |
| 05/01/03 | Todd L | This picture was between the Pepsi deal and the Wheels deal (Pepsi pulled out of all Motorsports in the mid 80's) Pepsi sponsored Darrell Waltrip on the Winston Cup series for 1 season 1983 and then they pulled all Motorsports funding including Brett. This car is after the Pepsi deal dissolved, How many remember Brett in the seat of Pete Chesson's Barker Bus # 76 |
| 06/11/03 | Steve Fegley | I remember that Hearn was in the Barker Bus in 88, I was at the Freedom 76 and he drove it, Billy the Kid won it in the Pretzelwagon, after driving the heat with one hand and holding the car in gear with the other. I think Brett finished 3rd or 4th. The bus’s rear was seizing up from bout 20 to go but he finished. Newt Hartman was also in the top 5 in the 026. |
| 12/01/03 | Mark Burd | It looks to me like the 07 of Paul Richards and the J9 of Joe Coverdale in the background. |
| 12/2/03 | Kevin Budden.... | I notice the statewide enclosed trailer back there, perhaps its one of the first! I used to have one of their jerseys it was really nicely done. sad to say one time when I was dumb enough to wear it working on my car I tore it, even sadder to say it became a rag after that!! |
| 12/03/03 | JR | Let me try to add some clarity to the comments. I used to work on Brett's cars in the mid-80's. He actually won the opener at Flemington 3 years in a row. In '87 with a Pepsi car, in '88 with Wheels & then in '89 with Freightliner. For his Busch car, he was sponsored by Wheels for only 1 year. For the most part the car in Busch was sponsored by D&D Dismantling, who was also a sponsor on his DIRT car in '88. |
| 03/05/05 | Michael D. Pine | This picture was probably 1984, pre-Pepsi. Brett was living in Thorofare, working for Olsen when the shop was on 295 in Thorofare. This is the only car Brett drove that was painted by Coz. I was fortunate enough to be there while it was being painted. In fact, I have the door panel from the previous body of this car in my garage. |
| 03/16/06 | Dennie M. | I beg to differ on the Brett Hearn and Pepsi sponsorship. Brett drove for Pepsi through 1986, when he won the Miller 200. I'm not positive but, I actually think it was 1988 when he started driving for Wheels. It was the same year they started with the new style bodies that we have today. Because I remember him still driving the Pepsi car in 1987 when Bob McCreadie won his first and only 200 at Syracuse. |
| 07/19/06 | Bob Hummer Sr. | Brett had the Pepsi Sponsorship up to and including
1987 on his #20 Dirt Modified. Brett drove my R7 small block modified as well that season.
The car was his #20 modified from 1986 and I purchased it and we won 17 races that season
with it. We won the track championship in 1987 with my R7 car and Brett also won the 1987
modified championship with his # 20 modified giving him both titles at
"Middletown" Orange County. Sixteen were small block races and one was the
Syracuse qualifier at Orange County Speedway. Brett needed a guaranteed starting spot for Syracuse and asked me to borrow the R7 ( His 1986 modified car) and I was happy to do it for him. He put his big block in it on Sunday after we won the Saturday Orange County "Middletown" race and went on to win by 1/2 track on the following Tuesday Syracuse Qualifier at "Middletown". He took the car home and put my small block back in and came back that Saturday night at "Middletown" and won the 320 small block once again. This gave Brett three wins in (7 days) one week at "Middletown" in the R7 car that he at that time referred to as"OLD BESS" and said it was his all time favorite car he ever drove. Brett lost the Pepsi sponsorship that year and picked up the Wheels Auto Parts sponsorship for 1988 as Dennie M. correctly stated! He called this late model bodied modified a PROBE to recongize the associate sponsorship he received from Mark Kenyon's Ford dealership. In 1987 I also had the Pepsi name on the lower part of both of the quarter panels behind the rear tire because the Pepsi sponsorship stated that Brett was to have their name on any regular rides. J.R. was also on my pit crew as well as Bretts and the forementioned comments He made are 100% correct. Bob Hummer Sr. Brett did go on to drive the freightliner #6 car in 1989. Michael Pine wasn't correct on saying that this is the only car COZ ( D.B.A. All American Signs, Bangor, PA) lettered. Coz lettered all Brett's cars up to and including 1987. In 1988 Brett purchased a vinyl graphics lettering machine and started doing his own cars as well as others. Coz also lettered the R7 car that I had in 1987. |
| 08.04.20 | Russ Currie | Regarding Todd L comment from 05/01/03. I personally witnessed Brett Hearn race at East Windsor on 2 occasions the mid 1980's. His first night there he finished the feature in 2nd side by side at the checkered flag to Frank Mangone. A week or 2 later he was back and he took a very hard flip. He never returned to EWS to race again after that. |