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Car #: #704
Driver (s) : Fritz Epright
Location: Flemington
Date: 1988
Photographer: Fred Voorhees
Photo provided by: Fred Voorhees
Comments: Comments Provided By Fred Voorhees:  This is the car that made Fritz Epright the Flemington Speedway modified division superstar. No doubt about it! The Trenton Mack #704 carried Fritz to some dominant wins over the best that Flemington could throw at him.
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06/25/04 3-Wide Fritz has driven a lot of cars through his career and more importantly, he has driven a lot of them very well.  Along with the #704, we'd have to add #49, #2, #265 and others.  I was told he also drove the Norcia #81 at Syracuse.  Last year, Fritz was driving his own #1 (a car that originally was driven by the late Tony Leonard as the #143), and most recently he's been driving the #43 at New Egypt Speedway.
06/25/04 Kevin B Man I'd really like to see Trenton Mack get back into racing, They always had great drivers and cars!  
06/29/04 Chip Johnson This version of the #704 (the first to be numbered #704, I believe, instead
of the old #74) was an absolute missile right out of the box, without a doubt the most dominant car that I have ever seen at Flemington.  Not even Pauch in the KRO #126 had anything for the #704.  I seem to recall something about the car being built for Jack Johnson, but somehow it ended up in with the Trenton Mack team.  I will always remember that time (around 1988) as the glory years of Flemington.  What a thrill that was, but who would have thought that it would all come to end just short time later?
06/29/04 3-Wide I could be off on this, but this looks exactly like the car that Fritz Epright ran last year at New Egypt that was yellow/orange and carried the #143 as the car was going to be campaigned by the late Tony Leonard in the late 80's.  Tony was a rising star in the world of stock car racing who was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident.
12/29/04 Bob Hummer Sr. This car was built for Jack Johnson. Jack and the Trenton Mack people were great friends so Jack didn't need it at the time and left Mike (one of the brothers that owned Trenton Mack) buy the car from him. They didn't have many races on it and built another and this was to be a back-up. In 1989 John Strupp ran for me at Flemington and my car was done after a bad wreck that we were involved in. Jack had drove for me at special 358 shows in 1988 and we talked often.

My phone rang the next day after the Flemington crash and Jack said the Trenton Mack people told him about our bad crash and told him to tell me to come down and pick up their back up car and make it a R7 by the weekend so we wouldn't miss any races.  He added that we could agree to a reasonable price if that was what I wanted to do.  They were great people.

The rest was history, I picked the car up Monday morning and we went to town on it.   Really all we needed to do was paint the sheet metal and get it lettered. This was all done by Thursday of the same week. The frame was red like my frames were.  We dropped my motor in it and I think Johnny got a 3rd that week out of the box. This is the same car Brett Hearn drove for me at Flemington once in the triple 20's of the same year and Stan Ploski also drove it in the last race of the year and I believe he won his heat but we had problems in the feature.

For 1990 I got Bobby Hearn to put a new body on it and We put a 320 in it for my son Bobby to run in his Rookie year.  Well (you guessed it) he won his first rookie race in it at the square. The following week He got 2nd place. He had his license suspended a month earlier and someone complained To Paul Kuhl and the State Police that he can't legally operate a race car in New Jersey while on the suspension time.

This was true because Paul and the Police at Flemington came over to us on our third visit and said They were sorry but "this is the law".  We quickly left for Middletown and Bobby ran the consi and qualified and ran the feature.  He never ran Middletown before but got a couple of 2nd's there to Brett Hearn.

I sold the car to a kid that ran sportsman in 1991 at Middletown and he was pretty competitive also. BOTTOM LINE IS----It was a great car.

12/29/04 3-Wide As good as this car looks above, I think it looked even better as a red #R7!  Thanks for the detailed info about this very special car Bob. 

By the way, I remember how well your son did in the Rookie Class at Flemington in 1990 as I was working on the #A car with Billy Schenk doing the driving.  Billy ended up finishing second in points to Sammy Martz in the #3, but if you remember, that was the year that Darren McCaughey, your son Bobby and Keith Hoffman all got DQ'ed from the class before the rookie season was through.  Thanks again.

02/26/06 Kory Fleming In my opinon, this car was one of the greatest cars to ever see a dirt track, with one of the best behind the wheel. Actually, this was the second 704, (Fritz drove one the week before and flipped it on the backstretch. It was red, and looked like the older style 74 car with a 704 on the door). I still wonder why Trenton Mack sold this car so quick. This was also the car that Tony Leonard had at the time of his passing, the 143 that Fritz brought out at NES. This car is where my number came from, my favorite driver in an unbeatable car.
08.18.18 Les

Some of the best times of my LIFE.  Turning wrenches on the "The Bulldog Express."   #we need to get back in it!!!704 

     
     
     
     
     
     

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