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i know everyone will say gil but i think thats tom mccann in the red jacket.

66 tommy comerford

40 ?

we all know the number 2 very under rated driver some fresh new kid!!!

now that a great photo 61 richie evans, 10 mark engel, 04 corky cookmen had to be a early turkey derby.

maybe send that photo to the tour guys to show them who would always come from the tour. 

40 Ken Klauwen. Kenny always helped alot of guys in racing. Had a huge machine shop in Marlboro.  Good guy, still around restoring cars now. Needless to say, I lent him a sway bar and a shock for that race...never got it back,  lol

sweet looking hot rod !!-what years did you run her ?

also , who did your engines ?

thanks !!---bill--

I think it McCann an this guys 

That was the '81 Turkey Derby where Evans dominated. Jamie ended up taking the victory!

That Vega was a former Rod Cunnliffe modified that Tom Mauser won the 1981 Sportsman championship with. I bought it at the end of 81 from Mauser and ran it in 82 and 83, I hated that car. Bad Hearst-Earhardt brakes that always leaked because they were split calipers. Had a few good finishes with it but no wins. Just a bad deal from the get go...the engine was switched out before I picked the car up and all junk was put in it. I made the deal on a Sunday and was told they had to do a few things to it, so pick it up next Sunday. I was 18. Got there to pick it up and it would'nt start. They got it running, I ran it at NES and Turkey Derby then tore it apart in the winter and found all the junk parts in the engine. Found out years later what had happened and that was told to me by the original engine builder. Forgive and remember.

John Wieczoreck freshened the engine that was originally built by Jim Hagaman.  John built alot of modern stock 6 cylinders for Ray Evernham, Neil Rutt, Gene Fincher, Jim Markey...all the Bayshore guys.