Drifting before anybody every came up with the sport "drifting."

Great addition Jack - Thanks for posting.

I had met Dave a few years ago (10?) after stopping into his Dover Brake business in North Jersey.  In addition to Buzzie, we talked about some of the many cars that Dover Brake appeared on over the years, but I think he liked talking about Buzzie the most.

Joe:Thanks and you're welcome! I was lucky enough to meet and talk to Dave years ago at one of Gary Mondschein's East Coast Racers' luncheon. Nice guy and his Dover Brake was such an iconic part of local stock car racing! 

Perfect photo of an all time great driver!

Thanks!

I met Dave in 1973. He was a great guy and I had no idea he passed. He must have bought 8 of my model cars.

i also saw where Lou Inzeo passed recently.

scott

Great shot Jack.  There are some photos you can see it and hear it. That's one!   Where were you standing taking that shot?

Thanks! Shot from the 4th turn stands. This was before I got a press pass and was just shooting as a fan in the stands.

I hope Buzzie has a copy of that!

No one has a copy of that one. I just found it yesterday. lol. It was part of a 2-car picture that was a dud because the fence blocked part of the other car. So I cropped that car off and enlarged it more which really brought out soft focus on Buzzie's car and I almost tossed the pic. But I tried sharpening it some and re-edited the original print and it's a doable shot now, but not tack-sharp.

Now that's a modified ! not the current day " billboards "

Hi Jack, Just curious, how many boxes and boxes of prints do you have from back in the day. And did you prefer shooting black and white , or color photos? Oh yea, did you have your own dark room and develope your own stuff? 

Lenny: I have tons of 5x7 B&W prints that I made in my darkrooms from 1973 thru sometime in the mid/late 80's. I built two darkrooms in my parent's house (first one was small and had no plumbing) and then 2 more later when we bought our first house and then moved 4 years later to another house. Man, that was a pain. But by the 4th darkroom build, I got really good at it and didn't have to work from any plans--I just remembered where everything was located in the last three that I built. I jsut had to measure the counter heights and width and just bang out the rest. After each race in '73 and '74, I'd print some B&Ws with no info on them and throw them in a box. Starting in 1975 when I got a press pass,  I'd print a few for the newspapers and then during the week I'd print a few highlight shots for myself from each race and stamp the date and write the driver/car info on them right away, figuring I'd forget who was in which car later. Man that was time consuming too. At some point in the mid 80's, I think, I didn't have the time and I quit doing that mid-week-printing for my own collection thing and only developed the film and then printed a few for the magazine and then parked those B&W negs in sleeves. I rarely shot color print film but briefly did some color printing in my darkroom (maybe '77-'79). Besides B&W film, I shot slide film mostly only because Stock Car Magazine (and later Open Wheel) didn't like using prints--they preferred slide film if you wanted a better chance to get published. I liked slides--the colors and sharpness really popped on those compared to prints from color negatives, as it should be because slide film was first generation stuff (the original) and prints from color negs were a second generation thing (since they were a copy of the negative.) So I have lots of boxes of slides, too. 

Great shot of one of my all time favorites.  I do like the 1969 car better before Dove Brake was the sponsor when it had Reutimann Chevrolrt written on the door in script and Buzzie's Racer over the windshield.

Len, thanks for asking, I was wondering the same. Jack, thanks for the reply, very interesting to hear.  I know "no book"!,  but how about a (HOF) Jack Kromer display day?  I know you're very humble, but time to bring them out!  I will help you display (ok carry it from the basement)  it.

I'm onboard with a Jack Kromer HOF Display Day!  Kevin, I'll help you carry those treasures up from Jack's basement!

Notice Jack got quiet?  lol.  Now we will have to bug him!

Sorry I didn't comment back, I was down in DE most of the day photographing birds and then got busy going through those and editing some of those most of the night while catching up with DVR's stuff on TV with my wife and I didn't check in here. Thanks for thinking of me and the kind words about doing a photo display. Making prints for a display is expensive, time consuming and tough to do to pick your best shots and I doubt there would be much interest. But I was honored to do that last fall when my high school photography teacher convinced me to be a part of my old high school's art gallery's anniversary alumni show. That was fun. For some reason I'm not a big print guy. I shoot pics, send some racing stuff to Speed Sport and AARN at times, but mostly just post them on social media and then off to the next race or nature shoot and do it again. Kinda like lather rinse repeat...over and over. The only goal when I go out with a camera is to get just one 'whoa' shot in my camera from that shoot and try to improve each time. My wife has been bugging me for 20 years to get prints made of my nature stuff or family vacation stuff from years ago. She even bought some frames for me that hold multiple smaller pictures, but as of today those frames still sit empty and the walls still have none of my pictures hanging on the walls in our house. (But the spare room--which nobody sees when they visit--does have a couple racing snapshots on the wall, along with a lot of magazine cover plaques from the Open Wheel/Stock Car Magazine days from when they used to send those to me, and a bunch of first place plaques from past EMPA photo contests.) I forgot to tell Lenny, I do have a ton of larger racing prints mounted on 16x20 boards, but those were 'forced' prints made from the times when I entered the EMPA contest stuff. If not for that contest, I would have never made those prints. So I'm glad that contest kind of forced me to get prints made.

There's a lot in the pic as I stare into it! Great shot!