Over 50 years ago, at the tracks of Freeport, Dexter Park, Islip and Riverhead. Long Island's legacy in auto racing actually goes as far back as 1906. As for stock car racing, well the Island held them from the very beginning.

Find out about Steve's history and Bob (his dad) and Uncle Bill's too as you find out about the guys who were there first; Axel Anderson, Al DeAngelo, Russ Klar, Bruno Brackey, Johnny Coy, Ed and George Brunnhoelzl, Mousey Kempster, Jim Malone, Fred Harbach, Marty Himes, Larry Mendelsohn and further down the track  Charlie Jarzombek,John Berkoski, Mississippi Curtis, Richie Evans,

Hear their first person adventures when they tangled with Fireball Roberts, The Flock Brothers, Joe Weatherly, Buck Baker, Ned Jarrett, Curtis Turner, Ralph Earnhardt, Bobby Allison, Mario Andretti,Lee Petty and his son Prince Richard!

Tour Daytona when half of it was sand and half a two lane blacktop as Axel Anderson starts 44th with the family car he drove there in, a green‘55 Merc. He wound up 15th and that became his number and  his son Wayne's (NASCAR's Modified Champ '94) from 1955 on.

Visit Stock Car Mecca ...Daytona International Speedway...on opening day 1959, as Jimmy Hendrickson takes The Flying A around it at 139 mph. Mighty fast in a ‘39 Ford Coupe. Jimmy, Al DeAngelo and many more ran there in the early ‘60's in modifieds and Grand National Cars.

So to find out more about where Steve Park came from, and a whole lot more of stock car history visit our website or write us.

http://www.oocities.org/MotorCity/Downs/5915/

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Ken Spooner


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