It's been 2 months since I had the chance to look for Peregrine Falcons.Checked that off today when I walked up to the edge of the cliff high above the Hudson River & had 3 eventually fly up near me. Fun birds to photograph. Love it when they give you 'the look' as they zoom by
9/20-HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to Les Snow, who would have turned 101 years old today. Snow, of Bloomington, Illinois, won a 500-lap ARCA race at Eldora in 1966. Snow passed away in 1987 at 61 years old.
Mike Grbac in the Horton 43 at Nazareth 1972.
This black coupe 43 car eventually became Jimmy Horton's first race car.The story I heard from Jimmy years ago was when he wanted to start racing,his dad said if you can fix up the old crashed car (the black 43 coupe), you can race it
I knew it came from the aviation industry, but, I didn't know who invented it, let alone, that that person's name was actually "Dzus." Lol, I've never worked on an airplane, but these make working on a race car, sooooo much easier!!!
Thank U Ted Dzus Jr. and your grandfather!
1967 Reading - Don Diffendorf of Kirkwood NY was 2nd to Stan Ploski in the '67 Daniel Boone 200
Fun Fact: The #S/360 cars Diffendorf drove for many years were owned by Glenn Scott, an IBM salesman. The "S/360" number was chosen for the IBM System/360 computer(s) sold by Scott.
Legendary Flagman William "Tex" Enright
- I saw "Tex" Enright flag an early Super Dirt Week satellite race @ Weedsport NY Speedway, he put on quite the show!
- His son Jerry Enright (1964 - 2026) also served as starter/flagman @ the Orange County Fair NY Speedway for many years.