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Here are three cars that I have no idea who the drivers were in 1982 and 1984 when I made stops at Jackson (VFW then).

Any help is appreciated...

Lee

1982 The number appears to be 59?

1984 Car 29

1984 Car 60

The first car is actually #69 driven by Lloyd Beckman from Lincoln Nebraska. It was also driven by Dean Ward from Grand Island Nebraska @ Huset's back in 1982.

Next, the car # 29 is Gary Zitterich from Sioux Falls South Dakota

The car #60, I believe is Mike Selberg from Brooklyn Park Minnesota. I'm not totally positive on this one.

The last two RHC has correct I believe. I remember the first car but can"t remember a name.

Thanks much... I sort of recognized the 69 car, but had the number all wrong. I checked it against another photo I had of Beckman behind the wheel at Knoxville and it matched.

I only got to Jackson a couple times and Husets once for a WoO show in 1983.

In 1982 I shot just one roll of film and got 54 Reiners, 69 Beckman, 99 Vogelaar, 16 DeWall, 38 Grein, 3 Van Emmerick, 5 Fredrickson and 18 Lusk.

In 1984 I came back and got 21k Kennedy, 22x Frantzen, 1z B Zitterich, 16 DeWall, 4 Jones, 19 Houseman, 63 Eskuri, 18 Houseman, 29 G Zitterich, 60 Selberg, 1w Richert Jr, 18 Lusk, 4 T Mack, 26 Brahmer, 14 Droescher and 58 Chapman.

I owned white pants just for VFW

Lee Johnson

Post more. I love these old photos. Do ya have any from the early 90's?

"I owned white pants just for the VFW", Oh ya U had to have white pants to get into the pits. I still have mine but they do-not fit anymore! Great pictures, keep them coming, I will look at some old programs and see if I can find the driver of the 1st pix.

Lee,if you didn't have white pants ya woulda got ran over you know! It was a safety issue.

So true on getting run over...

Back then at Knoxville we photographers used to stand "between" the push off road and the track in turns 1 and 2...there was more than once when a spinning sprint car went right behind me!

I was young and stupid, now I am not so young but I still do stupid things!

Lee

Could the last picture possibly be the #66 Baumann sprinter? I believe it was driven around that time by Vance Peterson or Dan Mansfield and wrenched by Loren Fick.

Interesting...the first letter going down the front of the hood is a "B"

This is kinda cool from my stash...

Mike Selberg's cars were orange and white I think????

Mike Selberg's car at Northstar??? not sure of the track....

I sent a link to this thread to GRP. That photo came from his collection and he's got extensive records from that era.

Stan Meissner

Hey Jimmy K,,, Looks like I got ya by a few points,, (Probably the ONLY time,, LOL) but Ol DeRock is kickin both our butts!!! LOL.. Man that old program reminds me of a lot of good memories with a bunch of really color full characters...

Brian Madsen

That was my second year in a sprint and I had about 15 races as a career total... I'm pretty sure I never made the A at Jackson until 85. maybe 86

But hey, we weren't far behind Marlon... he probably only had 1 shoe in compared to my 4-5

As far as I can tell, Ron is correct on all three drivers. Beckman in the #69, G Zitterich in the #29 and Mike Selberg in the #60. Selberg made a return to racing and actually did not have an orange and white color combination then. I'm pretty sure I remember it being blue and white. The Baumann #66 car did not look like the car in the photo, and the car pictured certainly appears to be Selberg's #60 sprinter. Selberg usually had his name running down the front of the hood section. The letter "S" could be mistaken for a "B" at the angle shown in the photo.

I've got an older 1970s era photo that I am waiting to stump Ron on this coming January in my annual trivia contest. If I remain as busy as I have been throughout a good share of this year, I likely will only do the sprint car division in the contest. That was the only division in the first contest and will ALWAYS be in the contest!

I enlarged the hood and sharpened it a bit... Its a B for sure and what you can see of a second letter it sure looks like the top of an A. But it could be a anything word starting with B.

I took 2 shots of the car that night, and the angle on the second photo is almost identical and was no help.

It no big deal...but I like tying a name to each car after 25 years.

Lee

I would say that is Vance Peterson in the Baumann 66 from 1984. That was a long time ago and I was a lot younger but that car rings a bell.