Thanks for sharing this image, Jack. Brings back lots of memories.

You're welcome, Greg

Cool deal Jack.  Now spend the $250 and take the exact photo!

Thanks! The price sure has gone up, I'd bet.

Cool pic!

Thanks!

Who back then would have thought in 5 years the track would close for good? Time flies thanks for posting Jack! 

I go back to when the back stretch was the home stretch & you entered from under the covered grand stands.  Rides in the race cars & Easter Egg hunts in the infield.  Tex flagging from the track & running to the flag stand.

One night we got there when races were already going on.  My Dad, his brother, myself & cousins.  My uncle went in first while my Dad was buying our tickets.  I go in under the grand stands & there's my uncle fist fighting with someone.  I run & get my Dad.  When we get back to the "scene"  the cops are kicking us out of the races.  Didn't matter that we had already bought tickets.  We went back outside,  Walked to the back stretch.  Our Dads made us all switch shirts (like they weren't going to recognize us).  Paid again to get in & watched from the back stretch.  We raced at Nazareth on occasion.  Mostly ran our cars at Hatfield Speedway, Reading & Grandview

Yup. Got one or two.

Cool story. Sounds like a scary ending to flight. Where the Tractor Supply sits now  would be way out of view on the lower right. 

Yup, I did shoot that Wolfgang wolf-man moon shot. It was in Open Wheel Magazine. It was a full moon that night at Flemington and the moon was in that spot at the track where Wolfgang raced by me. So that was a real thing that night. But truth by known--my photo was a trick shot, because it was impossible to freeze both Wolfgang and that moon in the frame, plus the moon looked way smaller with my short 85mm lens that night. So that would have looked like a dull shot with the moon being so small and or blurry with that lens. So to illustrate that 'Wolf(gang) howling at the moon' shot, I had to do some darkroom magic (no photoshop back then) and make a composite picture, which is two pictures combined on one sheet of photo paper. It was tricky combining a moon negative, that I shot earlier with a bigger telephoto, and the negative of the Wolfgang Stanton 75 racing by at Flemington. It took me a few times to get it to blend properly--all trial and error. 

Awesome back story on that famous picture, Jack!

Thanks Greg and Jd57!

I do the same thing, John and you're welcome.

I got a shot of Wall Stadium from the back seat of the Collings Foundation's P-51 Mustang when they flew out of Allaire Airport.  Please don't ask me what that ride cost, it wasn't $20!

Probably had to put another zero on there and then bump up the first number some, unfortunately for that Mustang ride.

Try two zero's, had to sell a lot of stuff on Ebay.  Then did it again a few years later.

Now curious, how much?

Over 2 for 30 minutes.  Dual control, Mark handed me the stick for a while.  He guided me through 4 point rolls, wing overs and a loop.  Ride of a lifetime for a self proclaimed warbird nut.  Unfortunately because of their B-17 crash a few years ago, you will never see the Collings Foundation touring again.

OK, thanks!

Wow!

And it was so nice I did it twice.  But I'll never do it again.