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Photo ID # 11.29.03__R7_PLO_FLM_0080_1
Car #: #R7
Driver (s) : Not real sure, but it is either Stan Ploski or Bobby Hummer Jr.
Location: Flemington, NJ
Date: 1989 or 1990
Photographer: John Lucas
Photo provided by: John McCaughey
Comments: This is one of the best looking cars to ever hit the dirt at Flemington.  I've always been a sucker for a car with a white nose and a darker color body as it makes the car look like it has the right balance (with the rear section looking heavier than the front).  Add to that the white and red "checkered" flag working up the quarter panel and you add the look of the rear being hiked up high!  Great colors, great letters... the only thing is that I'm not sure if this is Stan in the seat of this Robert Hummer Sr. owned modified or if this is Bobby Hummer Jr in the Rookie car from the 1990 season...., which would have been the last year for the clay.  His equipment was so nice, it's hard to tell!  (Looks like Fred Bitner in the background getting assurance from Paul that'll never pave the place... - (opps, sorry about that..., there I go again with my  unneccesary little commentary)
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09/07/05 Bob Hummer (Revised info - 9/7/05)

In June of 1989 I was at my niece's wedding and Jeff Adams took the car to Flemington for me and I was going to let Dean Gulick drive it.  Jeff is the one in this picture taking the car out for warm ups while waiting for Dean.

Something was not 100 % correct on the car and it never was raced that night after making a wise decision because I was not there. 

Jeff Adams had His own # 9 358 Dirt Modified and was formerly on Billy Pauch's team before racing.  He was on my team in 1989 and 1990. Jeff is now employed either by the Petty Racing team or the Robert Yates
team.  I know he worked for both and left one team to join the other but I don't know which he worked for first. (Help me out here Dean Gulick!)

Other than my son, Stan The Man was probably my all time favorite driver.  Stan was a great driver.  He basically kept me going to Flemington as a Fan.  Actually (you might check with Stan) but I'm 99% sure that Stan's last dirt ride at Flemington was in a #R7!   

Two things made Flemington what it was, and what it was lacking since the end of the 80's:

#1 - Stan Ploski

#2 -The Dirt  

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