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Photo ID # I08.20.12_077_JOH_FLM_0080L_1
Car #: #66
Driver (s) : Jeff Johnson
Location: Flemington
Date: 1980's
Photographer: Ace Lane Jr.
Photo provided by: 3Wide
Comments: This one looks like it could still get the job done today!  Great looking 74'ish Camaro that used to get around Flemington real well in the Late Model division with Jeff Johnson behind the wheel.  Jeff would go on to race sportsman too.

I always liked this car since at the time (80's) my then girlfriend (now wife of 25 years) had a nasty looking brown 74 Camaro with a pukie, 350 2bl in it that was on it's last legs...  Well... I got tired of seeing the tell tale sign of blue smoke when it pulled away from a stop... and I really hated the color brown that it was, so let's just say that I borrowed the car for a while...

By by the time I gave it back to her a few week's later, it was painted "Midnight Canyon Red" which was actually a color found on Mercury Cougars back then, and it kinda looked a whole lot like the color of the #66 above.  And because the car had a tan interior, I always made the connection to this car.  (Oh yea... almost forgot... The car had a small block 400 with a 4bl in it when I gave it back to her too... that I had pulled from an early 70's Chevy Estate Wagon... Man did that car run!)
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03.04.13 Rob Benz

Wow!  Great shot.  I watched that car being built in the rear garage bays of (what used to be) Station Auto Repair in Lebanon NJ.  That’s just how a Late model should look IMO.

That is a John Strobridge built car.  It replaced the #13 Dodge Charger that Jeff took end over end, almost out of the park, between turns 1 and 2 at Flemington.  This was going to be a “13” also. I remember my dad ribbing Jeff about reusing the ”lucky 13” . I guess it got him thinking because it showed up up at the track as the 66.  John Johnson (Jeff’s brother…. I think) later bought John Strobridge’s red #20 Camaro and it became an almost identically painted #65.  I remember both cars having some good runs.  Both were great looking cars!

The familiar Laird #57 in the background.  If I could only go back and visit for a weekend………
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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