A Weekend Question: Race Drivers or Race Cars Near Your House/Other  

Bill Tanzosh's barn race shop was right up the street maybe a mile away from my parent's house and Kevin Collins' basement garage race shop was another mile from there. If I had to guess, I hung out at Kevin's maybe 30 or 40 times and as far as Bill's shop goes, I was there a couple hundred times, sometimes every night or every other night for a while some years between 1976 and the early 80's--even in the off season, just to hang out with the guys. Del Buss was a couple miles south of us and I went there only a time or two. There was a barn in the alley by our house that at one point in the 1960's had a bare frame with a coupe body tacked on it--not much else--I think maybe it had axles and tires but not fully attached or finished. I used to ride my bike up to that barn and try to get a look at the race car through the small gap in the barn doors and check on the progress. But I don't recall it ever getting anywhere near finished. No one seems to know who that could have been or who owned it and that barn is long gone now.

Bill Tanzosh and Mel Stettler 1976 Nazareth PA

Kevin Collins 1977  (my old camera case there on the floor on the lower left) Cherry Hill (Nazareth PA)

Del Buss and Willie 1977 Hecktown, PA