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January 23, 2011 at
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January 24, 2011 at
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Looking at these rookie class drivers. Only about 3 went on to have some kind of noticeable racing in other classes in the 70's. Or at least these names did. Did I miss anybody? The Bookout name is a legendary name from the 60's. But did these Bookout's race very long.
Larry Coleman
Frank McGehee
Steve Kammerer
Ray Eubanks was he from Burlington, KS or Yates Center?? His name seems to ring a bell, but it might be another Kansasan Eubanks
Warren Vincent
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January 24, 2011 at
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Not being from the Wichita area a lot of the names are not known to me. Family members raced there off and on for several years and raced with a lot of the drivers at many a track throughout the midwest. The rookie classes had to wonder when the older drivers were going to retire. The top drivers in the classes had been on or near the top for going on twenty years. Most of them had raced all over the midwest and some across the nation.
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January 24, 2011 at
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Wish I had all the brain cells I had in the early 1970's... However I am quite sure that Ray Eubanks was a regular name at the Tulsa Speedway.
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January 24, 2011 at
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You were probably thinking of James Eubanks.
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January 24, 2011 at
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I'm aware of James Eubanks from the Tulsa area. But I think we had a Eubanks that raced up here in Kansas in the 70's. He might have been from Wichita. He might have been working in Burlington on the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant and use that address? I will dig out the programs and look.
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January 24, 2011 at
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April 23, 2011 at
03:57:02 PM by winfield
This is a page from a 1970 program at "81" Speedway. The #11 was Glenn Stults' first junior modified and Glenn's driver that year was former rockie car driver Ray Eubanks. Eubanks was from Burlington, Kansas where his father was the Ford dealer. Stults went on to win the modified points championship at "81" Speedway in 1974 with Oren Haas as his driver. Now, that guy in the upper picture.... 
"Stay between the fences and don't scratch the paint
above the windows"
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January 24, 2011 at
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Troy and Mel Bookout were brothers of Bill Bookout. All three are gone now as neither Troy nor Mel lived to a very old age.
"Stay between the fences and don't scratch the paint
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