Msg ID: 2844919 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:Pee Wee Fan
6/7/2025 4:22:02 PM

In an attempt to suppress my current bout of depression due to the rain. I  was searching for photos of my past favorite from the 60s and 70s, Pee Wee Griffin.  Don't ask me how I got there but I saw 2 Facebook posts stating that Pee Wee and Frankie Schneider each drove the Richard Marinelli M-1 at least once at Orange County in the mid 70s.  The supporting  photos were of Mulligan chassis Gremlins, although you can not tell if Pee Wee or Frankie were the drivers of these racers in the photos.  Can any of you 3Widers confirm that Pee Wee and/or Frankie each drove the Marinelli M-1?  If that's the case, its true, you do (or at least I did) learn something new every day.  Scott Ely

P.S. On days like today, thank God for (or Kevin Eyres as he turned me onto) FLO.


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Msg ID: 2844925 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:elf30
6/7/2025 5:35:06 PM
Reply to: 2844919 		Leroy Amy drove the m1 a few times and I have a book about Nazareth that has a picture of the coach that says Bobby Pickell was driving it. The pictures you are referencing may be early in the season 75 76 before Wayne Reutteman came up from Florida, because he drove the coach and first gremlin(s).


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Msg ID: 2844946 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:John Mc
6/8/2025 9:42:42 AM
Reply to: 2844925 		I saw a picture of the M1 with Bentley Warren driving at Syracuse. I also remember Jimmy Horton in it at Syracuse. Brett Hearn in later years. Bob Bachman would know for sure.


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Msg ID: 2844953 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:Pee Wee Fan
6/8/2025 12:47:32 PM
Reply to: 2844946

One thing's for sure.  The Marinelli M-1, and the M-2, had a lot of different chauffeurs.  I think I saw where Dick Anderson was behind the wheel of the M-1 sedan.  I believe he was another of the Floridian invaders during the 70s.  Scott Ely


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Msg ID: 2844954 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:3-Wide
6/8/2025 1:06:34 PM
Reply to: 2844953

Frank Eppolite #M1 Sedan


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Msg ID: 2844967 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:elf30
6/8/2025 8:50:10 PM
Reply to: 2844953 		I don't know if Dick Anderson drove the m1 but he did used to keep his car at a garage in Bangor when he came up from Florida. I think it was a Texico station that was run by a family named Pittenger.


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Msg ID: 2844980 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:John Mc
6/9/2025 10:38:47 AM
Reply to: 2844953 		Dick Anderson won one of the 4 - 25's at Nazareth in 1974 in the M2 sedan.


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Msg ID: 2844961 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:Spilly
6/8/2025 4:44:26 PM
Reply to: 2844919

Pee Wee Griffin ran an Eastern States weekend race in the M1, but did not make the show. I saw a picture on Facebook, of Pee Wee in the M1 Gremlin at Orange County. It was easy to see that it was him with the open face helmet with the duck bill and goggles that he was wearing in the 70's. It may have been on his son Bruce Griffin's page.


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Msg ID: 2845010 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:mowerman34
6/9/2025 8:10:24 PM
Reply to: 2844961

Yes, Frank drove the Marinelli car at least once the night I remember there was a bad crash on the back stretch at Middletown and Frank ended up in the pile


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Msg ID: 2845021 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:Bobby Bachman
6/10/2025 9:55:25 AM
Reply to: 2844919

Here's who definitely drove the Marinelli #M1 from my memory:
Steady / Fulltime drivers
1. Whip Mulligan early 70's(first M1)
2. Frank Eppolite '72-3
3. Leroy Amy '74
4. Dickie Anderson '74(M2)
5. Wayne Reutimann '75-6
6. Gary Balough '77
7. Kevin Collins '79, '82-4

Sort stints / One-off's
1. Jimmy Horton Syr '75(M11)
2. Frankie Schneider '76
2. Pee Wee Griffin ESW '77
3. Carl Collis '78
4. Bentley Warren Syr '79
5. Brett Hearn '82
6. Buzzie Reutimann '82
7. Harry Behrent '83


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Msg ID: 2845087 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:3-Wide
6/11/2025 9:49:34 AM
Reply to: 2845021

Thanks for providing that list Bobby -


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Msg ID: 2845109 Question re: drivers of the Marinelli M-1 +0/-0     
Author:carguyspm
6/11/2025 4:41:10 PM
Reply to: 2844919

Here's one with Kevin Collin's as the driver at OCFS. I believe 1979 or maybe 1978?


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