Glenn Fitzcharles, Stan Ploski, Dudie Babey, John Daigle , 

Ed Farley, Bob Pickell.

Ed Farley was the driver of the #43 in 1963. He was injured in Turn 2 the same night that Bob Pickell had his horrific frontstretch crash in the Circle A2a.

Tom Gilman, Dick Havens, and Billy Osmun are a few more who were brought to my attention.

mike grbac

 

                  Dominic Buffalino

 

Jimmy Blewett at Wall's Turkey Derby once?

CORRECT !!  BLEWITT WON THE DIRT MODIFIED PORTION OF THE TURKEY DERBY

IN THE #43 AFTER YOUNG JACKIE ELY , ON HIS WAY TO A WIN,BURNED OFF A R/R TIRE AND SPUN !!

BLESSINGS !!

BILL-----------

George Kostelansky.

I recall Rocco Infante driving the Horton 43 on the Bridgeport 1/4 mile track.  Scott Ely  

I seem to recall Fritz Epright driving the 43 also. Am I correct ?

Didn't Fritz drive for Jim when it was a different number, not 43.  And I do remember Rocco in it at NES.

Fritz ran a 43, Steve Moss went to a wedding and the old man asked him if he wanted to run it and we said Hell yea! So we can add Steve Moss that also drove a Horton owned #43! Fritz ran the car a few more times, but it was an alchohol small block and at New Egypt the big blocks, on a heavy track, we didn't have a chance. 

The Old man was bringing it to new egypt  and My son Cale Ross drove it in the feature after he had problems with his own car a few years ago 

Mr. Horton claims to have fielded the first Gremlin on dirt, which I'm pretty sure this is it. It's also possibly the ugliest Gremin on dirt, lol. We should do am UGLY car segment. There's a bunch of'um.

Pretty sure he drove it. Kostelansky drove it, but number 1. I believe Ploski drove the number 2.

Stan definitely drove the Horton #2, but I'm also pretty sure Stan drove a Horton owned #43 Gremlin.  I don't like to bring up bad memories, but one of the times Stan broke his arm in the first turn at Flemington might have been in a #43?

Dave Hunt also drove for Jim Horton at Bridgeport in recent years, and I think it was a #43.

Yeah, I assumed someone already mentioned Stan in the 43, he hit the fence right in front of us. Stuck throttle is horrifying.

hey rick wasnt that poloski crash in the carberry 47

I was there the night Stan broke his arm in the Horton 43.

Donnie Radd at EWS 

History repeated itself. Stan broke the same arm twice due to stuck throttles, once in Horton 43 2nd time in the 4T7

Stan get hurt when he destroyed the Norcia Mustang?  I can't remember.

Stan flipped the #81 Norcia Mustang from turn 2 all the way to turn 3 very early in the 1974 season, but did not get hurt. 

He broke his arm in back to back first turn accidents, once in the Horton #43, and the other time in the #4T7.  (Can't remember which came first, but the results were identical....)

For those who weren't there, it's almost impossible to believe, but the truth is that he broke his arm after having the throttle stick causing him to crash hard into the turn one fence.  He was out of action for many months (possibly the off season, but I'm not sure), but what I am sure of is that the very next time out, the exact same thing happened - same corner... stuck throttle.... and straight into the first turn fence, with the same results (broken arm.)

As unbelievable as it probably sounds to read that, just imagine how unbelievable it was to us sitting in turn one right under the Section 3-4 sign, to have seen it happen all over again on the night of Stan's return.

Didn't Jimmy's son (with Patti Smith) also drive his grandfathers car.?

Thanks, couldn't remember if he got hurt in the 81, long time ago.  And yes, Jimmy's son did drive a number 43, but I'm not sure if his grandfather owned it.

Butch. The next year, second broken arm for Stan was in the Carberry 47.

Thanks buddy- I knew I saw him in the carberry car crash real hard in turn 1