| Photo ID # | c08.23.06_017_TOB_BPT_0080_1 |
| Car #: | #17 |
| Driver (s) : | Ronnie Tobias |
| Location: | Bridgeport |
| Date: | 1980's? |
| Photographer: | Bob Sweeten |
| Photo provided by: | Rob Sweeten |
| Comments: | Talented driver from a family that this sport owes a lot to. |
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| 07/03/06 | Wayne Barz | This photograph captures a lot for me. I love the CRC sticker near the
#17. I love the Tobias name on the side of the car. I love the little clumps of clay clinging to the side nerf bars and the roof and everything else. I love the custom-fabricated look of the sheet metal. Sometimes I worry that the racing just isn't as much fun as when I was 9 years old in 1974 at Reading, wearing my air brushed, felt, bucket hat (or whatever those hats were called) of Chamberlain. Paying 20 cents for a grape sno-cone. Then I take my 13-year old son to Grandview and he's saying "look at that" and "look at this".will he one day look longingly at pictures of 2006 modifieds and say to his son, "I remember Jeff Strunk in the black and yellow 88 running up high where no one else would go."? What do you guys think? The Barz Family Wayne, Lori, Connor and Olivia |
| 08/24/06 | 3-Wide | We'll, It's kind of selfish, and I know it sounds ignorant... but I think
the answer is no. I have a son who attends the races on occassion and is an absolute
gear head at age 10.... Thinks mods are kinda cool looking, but I doesn't have any
specific memories of the different cars that say Billy Pauch drove during the 2004, or
2005 season. Kinda hard to remember that one a certain color and had a stripe and a
swirl that went this way... and the other year may have had a swirl and a swipe that kinda
went that a way.... He actually remembers the Outlaw Stocks that he saw
at Bridgeport 2 years ago more than the headline division...(a green and white Duster #14
really caught his eye.) Like the late Bill Singer said, the problem with today's cars (since the mid 90's) is that if you painted them all white, you couldn't pick out your favorite. And nobody seems to really care enough to challenge the status quo that is what we know today's "Modifieds" to be, and our sport is dying as a result. |
| 09/19/06 | Todd Lewis | Ronnie Tobias GONE TOO SOON I loved his old 555 Carl Davis put Ronnie in the seat of a # 100 with the coolest hood I have ever seen it was a wedge and after he kicked butt at Grandview the track told him not to bring the car back with that hood. They took that car and that hood to Fulton for the Vic 200 and the car was real fast. |
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