Forrester, Billy and Wayne Fulton, a host of Larry Funkhouser’s family, Cliff Heathcoat, Lloyd Hendrickson, Ken Hillberg with the Billy Vukovich car, Jim Horan, Glenn Howard, Ed Hudson, Fred Laia, Bobby and Darrol Irvin, Walt and Dottie James of Willow Springs, Ray and Nancy Alcaraz of the Racers of Balboa, Peter James, Parnelli Jones, Edith Klessig and her Cheesecake Derby ladies, Hal Knight, Barry Knowlton, Bob Lague, Betty Townsend Leary, Danny Letner, Bob Lewis, Steve Logan, Keith Loomis, Paul and Jasper Lopiccolo, Norman Malone, Earl Mansell, Buff Marquand and Mike Uribe of the Bean Bandits, Dave Martin, Michael McClain, Mel McIntosh, Don Melton, Jim Moore, Duane Morgan, Roy Morris, Jim “Irish” Murphy, Al Ocampo, Hoyt Platt, Ralph Foster, Penny and Marvin Porter, Don Read, Mal Redwine, Chuck Robbins, Preacher Rogers, Rosie Roussel, Eugene Russell, Stan Schiedecker, Harry Schooler, Tony Simon, Bob Stanclift, Gary Stewart, Jack Summers, Bob Sweet, Fred Tomlinson, Ron Toth, Sam Tribble, Ed Van Eyk, Ray Vodden, Ann and Billy Wilkerson, Gene Woods and Larry Wormsbecker. Hila Sweet’s annual Car Racers Reunion was held April 7 th, 2002, at the Victorville Fairgrounds in Victorville, California. Over 230 racers, fans, family, mechanics, car owners and friends showed up for this event. Some of the participants were Bob and Fuzzy Anderson, Art Bagnall, Jim Bartosh, Bob Bates, Andy Casale and his beautifully restored blue and white midget, Dale Crossno, Joan Denver and Bud Meyers, Jay East, Bob Falcon, L.G. ![]() ![]() Gone Racin’…To the 11 th Annual Car Racers Reunion The track itself was near perfect and required absolutely no grooming from the time the first cars hit the oval until the last of the day’s racers were loaded up and trailered back home.HotRodHotLine 11th Annual Car Racers Reunion Also on hand was veteran starter Galen Kohler handling the flags, Hamburg’s Lee Brisan, who raced at the Reading Fairgrounds, flagged the third turn, Billy Gentle, engine builder for many of the cars in the pits and John Marks, Eastern Museum of Motor Racing board member handling the pit line up. Despite heavy overnight/early morning rains and a somewhat swampy infield, 37 cars and approximately 750 people braved the elements for a Saturday at the 1/3 mile clay oval. Mother Nature tried to intervene once again this year but racers and their fans are a hardy lot. Last year Circle M’s May event succumbed to the weather and had to be rescheduled for September. May 12 was the date for this year’s resurrection. The Auburn racetrack closed down nearly 60 years ago but once a year it comes back to life for the annual “Eddie Mates Memorial” Racers’ Reunion. The Circle M Ranch Speedway ran weekly stock car races from 1955 through the 1958 season. ![]() Back in the saddle again, 90-year-old Leroy Felty from Jonestown, a seven-time winner at the Circle M Ranch Speedway back in the 1950s, shows that he still knows how to get around a clay oval in this restored sprint car.
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