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| Photo from West Haven Speedway courtesy of ARRA found via google |
As told by Dad on Facebook August 7, 2019
There was an article in the paper today about a guy who drove in one stock car race when he was young. Hey, I did that! It was about 1956 at Savin Rock in West Haven. It was a novice race on a quarter-mile track. I started 13th in line and finished 6th (dizzy) without passing anyone (many did not finish). It was in the days when us boys helped Doug Marshall with his #74 1935 Dodge Coupe stock car. I learned to take the body off one of them in under 15 minutes with an acetylene torch. Just one of my many life skills like running an absolute fall of shot calibration for a howitzer battalion or computing a zone-to-zone transfer for an Honest John rocket using logarithm tables while sitting on a camp stool that have absolutely no use today but were great challenges in their own time.
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