| Photo ID # | c09.03.06_TAS_TEX_TRE_0069F_1 |
| Car #: | #NA |
| Driver (s) : | Al Tasnady and Starter Tex Enright |
| Location: | Trenton, NJ |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Photographer: | Ronnie Guinther |
| Photo provided by: | Ronnie Guinther |
| Comments: | Comment from Ronnie: El Conadado in Trenton. The event was the Area Auto Racing News Reporters Ball. |
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| 09/04/06 | 3-Wide | It was a different time, and if you weren't around to be a part of it, you
may never know why those who were are still living it. The Speedway's had personality. The cars had personality. The owners had personality. The drivers had personality. There were characters everywhere you looked... Some of them bigger than life. And for many of us, here are two of them. Here you have Al Tasnady... An absolute super-star by any definition with a huge following of fans on and off the track... And then you have Tex Enright.. decked out in his Indian (I guess now I'm supposed to say Native American) attire.... a Flagger who incorporated "Showman" into everything he did. Two of the biggest personalities of the time. |
| 09/10/06 | JMWG5 | Who can't remember Tex? As a kid going to East Windsor every Friday and Sunday, I can still remember him standing the middle of the track to start the race and running to the infield. This man took his life in his own hands everytime. Those were the good old days. |
| 09/10/06 | Fred Voorhees | A great picture of two of the reasons why I loved racing at an early age back in the early sixties! Al Tasnady, a driver who, as you said, was bigger than life itself. My first favorite to cheer for. And Tex... well, what can you say? Showman was his middle name. I will always remember Tex starting the main events down on the inside of the track and being inches from the cars blasting past. Never seemed to faze him in the least. Your right - racing doesn't come close these days to what it once was. |
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