Weissglass Speedway. From 1. 95. 3 until 1. May until October at the 1/5th mile asphalt racetrack here. Staten Island. At the time new stock car. Stock Car racing hungry fans. Track owners were. This forced. the track owners to go with a NASCAR Sanction who in turn provided the operators with a guaranteed field of cars and. Of course the operators had to pay a weekly NASCAR sanction fee,pay into the NASCAR point fund,and employ NASCAR. Operators found themselves with a business partner so to speak. This forced many drivers to race. One well known example of this is Bruno Brackey who raced under the name. Racing was very lucrative for talented drivers then and many drivers raced 7 nights a week ,earning alot. Bruno was eventually caught and suspended for life from NASCAR. JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score system) was developed by sabermetrician Jay Jaffe as a means to measure a player's Hall of Fame worthiness. A player's JAWS is their career WAR. The Vault is an archive of maintained and curated content by the editors of Sports Illustrated. For the latest news and scores visit SI.com. Directed by William Castle. With John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Rico Alaniz. A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader. Nominations have closed for 15 Places Every Kid Should See Before 15, and wow did you have some strong opinions about what should (and should not) be included! This suspension was lifted. Islip. The first three years of operation were NASCAR sanctioned and. Gabe Rispoli's own Hollywood style stock car racing club when Gabe was. The Solar cooler goes wherever you do; Save Time. No need to stop for ice, just pack up and go! Plug right in and let the sun provide a. Find your adidas Multicolor Shoes at adidas.com. All styles and colors available in the official adidas online store. If you would like this film Please visit our Webstore http:// Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. Gene, I have never seen this footage of the build of the 1953 Corvette. It is truly amazing and labor intensive job. I marvel at the guys who did this day in day out. This undated photograph shows who is thought to be the famed gunslinger Billy the Kid near the age of 18. Credit Associated Press An Outlaw by Any Name: Billy the Kid. Personal Comments Page 2 - 39th Field Artillery Battalion (105MM) - 3rd Infantry Division - US Army - Korean War Project. The first announcer was Chris Economaki who would later go on to gain national fame on. ABC's Wide World of Sports. Chris also MC'd the tracks yearly award banquets held at The Plaza Casino well into the sixties. The. track's first champion in 1. Frankie Schneider. I think Tiny Milano had the record for the most models! The idea of the Jalopy class was to groom new drivers to. This class was called.. These cars were allowed. Ultimately,the. Class B cars were to become the top division three years later when the Stock Cars (top division) went on strike and. I found out why many years later. The entire. track was scraped up and hauled away. I watched it being done and I saved a big chunck of the pavement. He knew the lease was up on the property that year and there had been a poor showing of cars and spectators for the. I'm certain that the business end of running the track had been non profitable for some time. Gabe announced. that this was the last year for the track. His next words were, . I'm going to open a new track. I think we all knew it was over for racing on Staten Island. There were a couple of attempts. At least he made an effort to keep it going. With the closing. Weissglass my racing days were over until 1. I returned to the track in a Legends Race Car. I competed at Lowes. Motor Speedway in Charlotte,North Carolina, The RCA Dome in Indianapolis and numerous other tracks in the Tri- State area for. Iwhen I stopped racing, my efforts went back to the vintage stock cars and the museum. I had Bruno Brackey's TQ on display which I retro- restored. Bruno drove it to many victories years ago. Eddie had his great stock car models &. Anne Creveling ( a track reporter & writer at Weissglass ). We will be at the Warren,New Jersey Car Show in September 0. It does cost alot of money to build replicas of these. I would ask any of you Staten Island race fans out there to help out. T- Shirt, hat or a Stock Car Sticker that I sell. Also at Christmas time please remember. Hobby Center listed in the Staten Island phone book. Thanks,George. Drivers. One such event was just held for Frankie Schneider. Frankie was the first track champion at Weissglass Stadium in 1. That number of wins in a single season was matched by George Kaufman many years later. Anyway,all the hoopla in regards. Frankie brought to mind something that Gabe used to say to me on more than one occassion. Well,as you may have guessed, he was representing Weissglass Stadium. There was no purse that night. The drivers raced for nothing. These acts of good will & generosity were obviously forgotten when the drivers went on strike for. He said very. simply that . I was surprised that he could almost admit any kind of defeat being such. I can only say that he was always good to me at the track.
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