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Photo ID # 12.31.03_071_KAN_FLM_0080_1
Car #: #71
Driver (s) : Scott Kania
Location: Flemington, NJ
Date: 1980's
Photographer: Wayne Bechtel (or Frank Miller)
Photo provided by: Frank Miller
Comments: A favorite of many, here is one of the last coupes to be found at the Square... 
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12/31/03 3-Wide I can't help but wonder what would happen if you took one of the top running TEO's at NES and replaced the body with this little beauty... what kind of additional changes would have to be made to make up for the loss of downforce created by the today's big wide sheet metal creations...(Winston Cup style spoiler across the back? -  small nose wing like a sprinter on the front?)  

I know it would be a big disadvantage at Syracuse and even Bridgeport, but I don't know about NES...

I don't know, but I think if tracks are looking for some of the old timers to come out and enjoy going to the races, they need to make sure there is something there that they want to see!   I also think a pretty good arguement could be said that most spectators would like a variety of body styles to look at and to root for instead of the strict dirt cookie cutters we have somehow allowed to take over in the name of standardization and specifications and ease of aquisition.... Since when did this sport sell out it's individuality and creativity for a bunch of rules written for a very specific group of cars that the bulk race in NY State?  Am I the only one that has a problem with 120 cars each night that  look virtually identical all because we got in line with a set of rules created for another venue.  Kind of reminds me of the beer commercial that's out now where everybody just gets in line and falls down like dominos because that's all we know to do.

Maybe it's time we look at those rules and provided there is a SAFE way to bring in some "real looking bodies", let's open those rules up a bit so that the fabricators out there, who this sport sent packing a few years back, can show their stuff once again and give us all something special to root for.

01/4/04 Steve K. I agree with you 100% 3-wide. Today's modifieds and sportsman look identical at every track you go to accept maybe for the lettering. Years ago at Syracuse you had to man handle a racecar around there and it made for an exciting race now with these wide bodys there stuck like glue with no passing at all.

At least with coupes, gremlins, sedans etc. they looked like real cars that fans could identify and every one of them were different. I took a guy from work to his 1st race last season and he asked me what kind of car were they supposed to look like and I couldnt give him a decent answer.

I run a sportsman myself and these huge bodies are expensive and they make it real tough to work on the car. I hope that someone does come up with a rule that can maybe bring the older style bodys or something like them back to racing. I think the racing would be better and I think it would make drivers respect their fellow drivers more by not having that HUGE BODY to lean on.

01/14/03 Darren Wilton Scott sold this car to Hugh Bremner.   It was the #2n1.  Hugh then had this car sold, but decided to get one more race in at Flemington....   Hughy had a wild flip with it and totaled it out.   The guy that was buying the car showed up Sunday morning with the money and hughey said the car is out back.  You can just imagine the look on the guys face when he seen that pile of metal sitting there .............
03/11/07 JM I could swear Scott Kania was driving this car when it crashed down the front stretch at Flemington.
04.01.16 Bruce Scottie came back a few weeks later in a sprint car and flipped again in the same place. The first turn
04.01.16 Rick Shive This is the coupe that Scott flipped on frontstretch at Flemington, 1981. We were pitted just where you couldn't see the crash, but the red came out immediately. Went to hospital later, and visited Scottie in the ER after his injuries had been treated, he was really out of it. Us and Jeff Hanna's crew took his car and truck back to his parent's house in Lebanon that night. He broke both wrists, did not race again that year. He drove this car again in '82, nearly won a couple, then sold it to Hugh Bremmer, who destroyed it in '83. The sprint car flip was in '83, same spot. Actually, Scott flipped 3 times in that spot, in rookies in '79, I was right behind him that time.
     
     
     
     
     
     

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