The Main entrance in the mid '60s (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Frank Riddle takes a win in the Willard Smith Sprint Car - 3-14-69.
Date: 09/28/2007
Dave McInnis with Rosebud Flower and Dick Joslin - 1964.
Date: 11/11/2007
Marty Spengler in his very first ride (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Cliff Guldi's Sportsman sits on top of the railing -1967
Date: 10/09/2007
1963 L to R Dick Joslin, Ray Snodgrass, Phil Orr, Harry Pullen, Ernie Alderman, Pop Grostic, Jim Yarbrough & Rosebud Flower
Date: 05/06/2008
Ray Snodgrass leads Jack Cart and Dumont Smith in 1965 (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Bobby Dawson's sharp Sportsman coupe - 1965
Date: 03/19/2008
1962 Ford of Jim Crowe - 1967 (Fred Coxen collection)
Date: 03/26/2008
Ernie Alderman in 1965 (Chuck Little Photo)
Date: 12/09/2008
Phil Orr with the Gary's Duck Inn Special - Late 1950s (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
The immaculate LM of Bill Enters - March 1965 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/19/2008
Otis Brayton - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Harry Pullen in the Finchum Bros. Ford - 1962 (Wanda Albritton Pullen Collection)
Date: 05/01/2012
Bud Josey's Toonerville Trolley as driven by Kip Pierce - Jan. 1965 (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/10/2008
Dave Scarbrough's LM in the pits - March 1965 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/19/2008
1963 - Jim Yarbrough inspects damage to his car (Yarbrough Collection - Courtesy Sonny Hartley)
Date: 05/05/2008
1965 photo of the main concession area with promoter Dick Joslin entertaining some dignitaries (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Tom Carter's Modified - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 11/12/2004
Ray Snodgrass - 1966... He was Late Model Champion that year...
Date: 03/26/2008
Don Land of Plant City ran this Sportsman car in 1965 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Jay T. Pugh - 1966
Date: 11/11/2004
Dink Woodard - 1966
Date: 11/12/2004
Bill Horn - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
Frank Riddle tangles with Curtis Letchworth - 1969
Date: 11/11/2004
Tom Carter gets hit head-on by Johnny White - 1967
Date: 11/11/2004
Henry Pullen flipped his new Sportman the length on the back stretch - 1967
Date: 11/11/2004
Jim Hart looses a wheel - 1967
Date: 11/12/2004
Dave Scarbrough wheeled this Sportsman car in 1965. (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 03/19/2008
Mike Hopkins - 1967
Date: 11/11/2004
1963 - Mel Hoff driving one of many cars of the day that were built by Pop Grostic.
Date: 11/12/2004
Dick Joyce in his Model T Sportsman in 1964... No idea who is in the number 13 (Charles Eby Photo)
Date: 06/26/2008
Bill Enters - 1964
Date: 03/21/2008
Dave McInnis' 55 Chevy in the pits - 1964 (Chuck Little Photo - Marty Little Collection)
Date: 11/11/2007
Mel Hoff and Elbert Lane find the fence in 1967 Early Model actiion (Wes Ault Photo)
Date: 12/29/2008
Bob Dawson Sportsman - 1967 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 11/11/2004
Harry Pullen topped the LM win list in 1967 with his primer-black Chevelle...
Date: 12/29/2008
1968 shot of Cliff Guldi and his Model T bodied Sportsman car..
Date: 03/26/2008
A 1967 Early Model win for Henry Pullen. Tom Waring owned the car (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Bill Dearolf - 1963
Date: 03/26/2008
Bill Roynon - 1969 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Charlie Pullen actually won this race in 1963 with the hood up..
Date: 03/26/2008
Bill Woodard - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Charlie Thomas slides off the track as Bill Horn passes - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
Curtis Letchworth - 1968
Date: 03/26/2008
Pat Herndon takes a checkered flag - 1967 (Allison Collection)
Date: 04/08/2008
Dave McInnis - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
Dick Darlington - 1966 (Buzzy Berry collection)
Date: 03/26/2008
Dave Scarbrough - 1966
Date: 03/26/2008
Dick Joyce gets up close and personal with Dick Darlington..
Date: 03/26/2008
Don Love ran a local grocery and ran Late Models... Not too good of a day here...
Date: 03/26/2008
Take the body off of Bob Luscomb's Modified and it could also run as a Supermodified - Photos taken in April 1968..
Date: 04/23/2009
Early Model action from 1965
Date: 03/26/2008
Ernie Bass takes a win - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Elbert Lane - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
Late '50s win for Harry Pullen
Date: 05/01/2012
Sonny Sprayberry after a heat race win in his Early Model Ford (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Ernie Bass #22 up and over Cecil Russell #0... Dumont Smith is in the 16K and #34 is Dick Darlinton - 1963
Date: 03/26/2008
Bill Enters - 1965
Date: 03/26/2008
Frank Newman after flipping over the fence - 1963
Date: 03/26/2008
Ernie Bass with Lewis Green's Ford - 1965
Date: 03/26/2008
George Turbyfill #7 leads Bob Dawson #20, Bill Woodard #14, Dink Woodard #6 and Ward Kirksey #1... Unknown who is in the #11..
Date: 03/26/2008
Buzzie Reutimann - 1966
Date: 03/27/2008
Harold Gordon - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
January 1965 - Jack Arnold (Chuck Little Photo from the Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/10/2008
Dick Joslin Takes a win during the mid '50s (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1971 season point standings as of April 30 (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Wayne Heckle - 1967 (Buzzy Berry collection)
Date: 03/26/2008
Henry Pullen - 1966
Date: 03/26/2008
Cliff Guldi with his Early Model Chevy - 1969.. Guldi moved to Arkansas and continued hi racing career there (Westerman)
Date: 03/26/2008
Jim Crowe - 1967 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Jim Roach loses a wheel in front of a packed house...
Date: 03/26/2008
John Scalise wound up with this tire in his lap - 1968
Date: 03/26/2008
Early Model T-Bone in 1965 (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Larry Brazil - 1967 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Shot of the breezeway from around 1965 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Lakeland's Clarence Rice and his #X Sportsman in 1965 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Marty Spengler - 1968
Date: 03/26/2008
Jim Yarbrough takes a win circa 1961-62 (Yarbrough Collection - Courtesy Sonny Hartley)
Date: 05/06/2008
Mel Hoff - 1966
Date: 03/26/2008
Phil Orr in the Brevard Machine Modified 1968-69 (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
An auto tag from the old Mid-State Racing Assn. (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 04/25/2008
No one had better looking race cars than Ray Snodgrass...
Date: 03/26/2008
Phil Orr's Modified - 1967 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
1965 - Dave McInnis leads Randy Tissot (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Rudy Brinson - 1967
Date: 03/26/2008
Phil Orr's Sportsman car in 1966 (Bob Patten Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
1963 - Stan Everett #00 spins... Mel Hoff is in the #9 and Pop Grostic is driving #3... Unknown who is driving #33...
Date: 03/26/2008
Dink Woodard's Sportsman coupe in the pits - January '65 (Chuck Little photo from Marty Little collection)
Date: 07/10/2008
Stan Parker - 1963
Date: 03/26/2008
The sharp #50 Sportsman was driven by Ed Hadley, Randy Tissot and Ernie Bass among others..
Date: 03/26/2008
Billy Myers takes a win in 1966...
Date: 06/30/2008
Wild Bill Hohman's Modified in '61... Hohman dominated the Modified class in the late '50s & early '60s (Walt Wimer)
Date: 04/01/2009
An Early Model win for Sonny Sprayberry circa 1966 (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Tom Carter - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Will Cagle with Andy Anderson's #97 - 1967 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/26/2008
Harold Gordon's Sportsman car in 1965... This car was later sold to and raced for several years by Phil Orr (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Wimpy Viele - 1968
Date: 03/26/2008
Henry Pullen - 1967 (Fred Coxen collection)
Date: 03/26/2008
Phil Orr drove this tattered 4 door '55 Chevy LM at Orlando in January 1965 (Chuck Little photo from Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/15/2008
Ernie Alderman gets crossed up chasing Matt Duncan in 1964 (Charles Eby Photo)
Date: 06/26/2008
Pontiac LM of Phil Orr in 1965 ( Charles Greco Photo - Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
1957 action - Harry Pullen is #19 (Wanda Albritton Pullen Collection)
Date: 05/01/2012
1966 - Sonny Miles spins his Hudson Hornet...
Date: 03/27/2008
Jim Yarbrough in the hot seat around 1962 (Yarbrough Collection - Courtesy Sonny Hartley)
Date: 05/05/2008
Wayne Reutimann's '57 Chevy in January 1965 (Chuck Little photo from Marty Little collection)
Date: 07/10/2008
Buster Standridge loops his 1954 Ford in practice - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 03/27/2008
Action from 1959
Date: 07/30/2010
Curtis Letchworth - 1966
Date: 03/27/2008
Pat Herndon passes another competitor - 1967 (Allison Collection)
Date: 04/08/2008
Dale Mixon - 1968 (Westerman Photo)
Date: 04/10/2008
Upside down in 1967...
Date: 04/10/2008
1959 - Stan Parker leads Dick Joslin (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Dick Pratt takes a win in 1965... The milk bottle on top of the car was a hit with the kids (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1966 - Bill Enters in his final year of Late Model racing.. He switched to the Early Model 6-cylinders in 1967...
Date: 06/30/2008
1964 shot of Maitland, FL Sportsman driver Matt Duncan who was a regular at Orlando Raceway (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Dick Joslin with the O.H. Howard Masonry cars in 1954 (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Among those pictured in 1965.. Ernie Bass, Jack Cart, Buster Standridge, Bob Dawson and Ernie Alderman (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1957 - Don Rouse spins.. the #77 driver is not known (Charles Greco photo from the Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Buzzie Reutimann in 1965 (Chuck Little Photo - Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/25/2008
Kip Pierce up on two wheels in 1965 (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Crowds in the '60s were standing room only (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Ernie Bass takes a win in Lewis Green's Ford in 1964 (Charles Eby Photo)
Date: 06/26/2008
From a 1958 daytime show (Ralph Allen Photo from the Marty Little Collection)
Date: 03/27/2009
Dick Joslin - Mid '50s (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
1965 - Gene Johnson battles Ernie Bass (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Oilzum Orlando Raceway Decal (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 04/18/2008
Dick Joslin presenting Orlando Raceway Jackets to Marty Spengler, Henry Pullen and Randy Tissot in 1966...
Date: 06/30/2008
Dick Hope, Ernie Bass and Phil Orr - 1957 (Ernie Bass Collection via Marty Little)
Date: 05/28/2008
Ernest Glisson #60 dodges some Early Model mayhem in 1965 (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Dick Joslin drove this sharp '37 Ford Modified - late 50s. Power was 312 Ford. Shown here in 1958 (Ralph Allen photo)
Date: 05/28/2008
Early Model action - Sonny Sprayberry leads Charlie Thomas (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Miamian Bill Hess scored a win in the summer of 1966. (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 04/25/2008
Plant City's Don Land ran this Chrysler 6-cyl powered Model A coupe - Jan. 1965 (Chuck Little photo/Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/15/2008
Ad for a special New Year's Day show in 1968
Date: 06/17/2008
Donnie Tanner after winning a 100 lap Early Model race in Oct. 1967 - Bill Wade was the car owner...
Date: 06/17/2008
This Chevy LM was Roland Hancock's ride in 1965. He also drove the #15 coupe parked behind the Late Model (Chuck Little Photo)
Date: 07/15/2008
1964 - Dink Woodard with a checkered flag (Charles Eby Photo)
Date: 06/26/2008
Wayne Heckle's Early Model upside down and on fire too (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Marty Spengler grabs a win in Lewis Green's Chevelle - 1969
Date: 06/18/2008
Emil Reutimann's Sportsman coupe - 1/'65. It may have been the last car he raced (Chuck Little photo - Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/10/2008
Dick Joyce gets sideways in front of Harold Gordon - 1964 (Charles Eby Photo)
Date: 06/26/2008
1966 LM Point Champion Ray Snodgrass after a feature win...
Date: 06/30/2008
1966-67 LM win for Harry Pullen with flagman Rosebud Flower (Wanda Albritton Pullen Collection)
Date: 05/01/2012
1968 - Buster Standridge is assisted from his car after a bad crash...
Date: 07/15/2008
The #21 Early Model team - L-R Chuck Brown, Ron Funk, driver Sonny Sprayberry and Tom Funk (Berry)
Date: 04/19/2010
Jim Yarbrough after a roll-over (Yarbrough Collection - Courtesy Sonny Hartley)
Date: 05/05/2008
Some 1965 Sportsman action with George Turbyfill leading Cliff Guldi and Roland Hancock (Charles Greco Photo)
Date: 07/01/2008
Sarasota's Dick Taylor brought this Chevy to Orlando in January 1965 (Chuck Little photo from Marty Little Collection)
Date: 07/15/2008
Joe Mossaro on his roof as Billy Woodard gets his car stopped - 1968
Date: 07/15/2008
1967 Early Models - Buster Standridge and Dave Joyce (1) tangle (Wes Ault Photo)
Date: 12/29/2008
Harry Pullen set to go... (Wanda Albritton Pullen Collection)
Date: 05/01/2012
Ernie Bass in 1968 (Wes Ault Photo)
Date: 08/02/2008
1963 - Frank Newman #3 on his way to doing eight flips - Harry Whittaker is #71, Dumont Smith #16K and Ed Hadley #50...
Date: 08/18/2008
Phil Orr after a 1967 Modified win (Wes Ault Photo)
Date: 12/29/2008
1965 - Dick Darlington (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/15/2010
Dick Joslin around 1953-54 with the Club El Patio Special (Joslin Collection)
Date: 04/16/2008
Orlando Raceway patch from the 60s (Marty Little Collection)
Date: 09/02/2008
1967 - Bob Dawson, Roland Hancock and Phil Orr avoid a spinning car (Wes Ault Photo)
Date: 12/29/2008
1958 - Buzzie Reutimann in the pits (Ralph Allen Photo from the Marty Little Collection)
Date: 03/27/2009
Bob Luscomb with a win around 1964 (Luscomb Collection)
Date: 03/27/2009
Dink Woodard's #00 Sportsman in 1965 (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Obituary for retired racer Ernie Alderman - Orlando Sentinel 12/23/97. He was a top Sportsman racer at the track in the 1960's.
Date: 12/08/2008
March 1965 photo of Jim McGuirk's Sportsman. McGuirk raced out of Vero Beach, FL (Walt Wimer Photo)
Date: 04/01/2009
Phil Orr with his car owner - circa 1966 (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
Bob Luscomb's Bobtail Sprint originally built for Marty Spengler outside his Orlando shop in 1969 (Bob Patten Photos)
Date: 04/22/2009
Mid-1950s win for Phil Orr in the King Motors Special (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
Photo montage of cars that ran at the track in 1969...
Date: 04/22/2009
1963 - Ernie Bass and Robbie Ashton mix it up (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/15/2010
Rob Fuller takes a win in 1969...
Date: 04/22/2009
Article from The Mount Dora Topic - 8-5-65...
Date: 06/26/2009
Buster Burt with his '37 Ford Sedan in May, 1958 (Burt Collection)
Date: 12/07/2009
1969 - Wayne Reutimann (Coxen Collection)
Date: 02/16/2010
1963 - Don'l Burkhalter (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/15/2010
Henry Pullen - May 1967 (Coxen Collection)
Date: 02/16/2010
Flagman Rosebud Flower lines up the cars in 1959...
Date: 07/30/2010
Wayne Heckle after a bout with the fence (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Tom Carter - 1968 (Coxen Collection)
Date: 02/16/2010
Wayne Heckle - 1967 (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Early 60s - Sportsman cars of Lindbergh Howard #51 and Dick Darlington #34 mix it up (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/15/2010
9-30-1966 - Ron Brasher won this race minus his left front tire (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Late 1971 point standings (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Marty Spengler #21 and Bill Horn #77 spin as Jim Roach #8 goes over the bank (Buzzy Berry Collection)
Date: 04/19/2010
Buster Burt's car circa 1953 outside a gas station on South Orange Blossom Trail (Burt Collection)
Date: 06/03/2010
Points from early May of 1963...
Date: 07/29/2010
Dumont Smith 1965 - Throttle stuck and he hit a trailer in the pits
Date: 04/20/2011
Wild Bill Hohman takes a win in Ray Fox's car in the late 1950s (Courtesy Ray Fox)
Date: 06/13/2011
Ad for 1968 New Years show (Wanda Albritton Pullen Collection)
Date: 05/01/2012
1956 - Emil Reutimann, Phil Orr, Bunny Joslin, George Crash Tidd, Dave McInnis and Bobby Dawson (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
1970-71 - Phil Orr with a 1963 Ford Fairlane (Orr Family Collection)
Date: 04/20/2012
Action in 1957 before a packed house - Emil Reutimann #00 on top of Harry Pullen.
Date: 05/01/2012