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.
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Bill Tanzosh and Mel Stettler 1976 Nazareth PA ![](../UserUploads/33/vaq1TGf654dc90b4c76.JPG)
Kevin Collins 1977 (my old camera case there on the floor on the lower left) Cherry Hill (Nazareth PA)
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Del Buss and Willie 1977 Hecktown, PA |