| Photo ID # | d01.21.07___7_WIL_ORG_0070M_1 |
| Car #: | #7 |
| Driver (s) : | Bill Wilson |
| Location: | Orange County |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Photo provided by: | Tommy Kosch |
| Comments: | Comment
from Tommy: Here is a picture of my uncle Mick holding me next to Bill's car on July
29, 1972 at OCFS. I was 4 yrs old. When the fair was up the cars used to enter the track
through the drive in section. Which is were we parked. I used to love getting driver
autographs and taking pictures of all the cars. One night in the mid seventies at a track that he just visited from time to time I met my hero. This is how I became a Billy Pauch fan. I was getting autographs during a Wed. night CRC qualifier during the fair. I was wearing a t shirt that had the #15 on it. Well at the time I didn't realize what # was on the car. When I reached up with me autograph book to have this driver sign it he asked me if I like the #15? I replied yes, and asked him why? He said did you look at my car and I replied no. So I looked back at the trailer to see his car and thought it was the coolest thing. He saw how excited I was so he signed my book and said I'm gonna win a heat race tonight for you and I thought that was the greatest thing ever. Well as fate would have it Billy did just that. I have been one of his biggest fans ever since. Just thought I would throw that one in there, how a kid who spent most of his summers at OCFS wound up with a hero who raced at a different track on Sat. nights. |
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| 01/31/07 | Mike Clissold | This picture brings back memories of racing at OCFS. I usually was at
Flemington but my friends from slot car racing introduced me to the drive in section.
It was Tommy's cousins Billy and Joe who I knew then.. Also enjoyed uncle Mick...even got to go the TQ races in atlantic city. Also remember Billy Wilson at the toll booth on Rt 17. You cant have OCFS without Bill Wilson and Rich Eurich Tommy. Thanks for the photo Mike Clissold. |
| 02/15/07 | Jay Kosch | That is an increadible picture of my "Great" Uncle Mickey and my
Cousin Tommy. Our Uncle was one of the best men in the world and would go to any track
once and I mean any track!! We went to the first race at Mok-A-Tek Speedway.I remember it so well the telephone poles disguised as stands and the foot of mud in the parking lot and it hadn't rained for days. We also went to the big track at Nazereth in the snow. I remember walking through the tunnel and hearing the racecars over head as my cousin sat in the stands to watch in 30 degree weather, tell me thats not dedication to the sport we love!?! My Great Uncle Mickey used to get such a gleem in his eyes when Frankie Schnieder would come out and start the 200 at Middletown, man those were the days. He always seemed to bail my father out when he and my Uncle Bill would get a last minute decision to go to a track and end up coming home on a wrecker,. Joe Kosch is my father and Billy Kosch is my father's brother and my Uncle so who ever responded to this picture above must know me, Where ever my family went I was not too far behind. This picture reminds me of so much history our family has with modified racing. My Uncle used to bring me to the Wilsons shop in Ramsey to see the racecars and talk to Billy and then young Donnie Wilson. People used to think that he went that way to save on toll money but I think he did it to go to their shop. I will never forget how many times he said "stop playing with your matchbox cars and watch the races" man I wish I listened. My Great Uncle has passed on and the family has moved to different places in N.J. in the tri-state area got married had children "life happened"... I miss the days when all the family would go to either Middletown and watch my Great Grandmother drink beer under the trees and play either wiffle ball or kick the can till our limbs were bleeding in the drive in or go to Flemington to bet on the races out come, Racing our r/c cars and going into the pits afterwards. Those days defined my life and I will always remember them forever, I will pass on the love of dirt modified racing onto my children and keep the tradition alive... I'm racing now and wish Uncle Mickey was around to see it, I miss him and love him a-lot.. Jay Kosch c/o Fastrak Motorsports #47 racing |
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