SOLEM COLLECTION - STOCK CARS
If there's a bigger Dayton Speedway fan than Scott Solem (kb8zcb@netzero.net), I've yet to meet them. Scott seldom missed a Dayton race and was even an after-hours visitor to the track (those stories are best left to another time). Scott also got his hands dirty helping John Leach, Sr., a car owner and driver in the Midwest Modified division.
When he wasn't helping in the pits, Scott remembered to take his camera with him to Dayton Speedway. In the end, fortunately (for us) he filled about seven photo albums with his Dayton photographs. Here are just a few of the stock car photos that Scott's agreed to share with the FODS Nation.
I'll be adding more photos to this page as time permits.
Mickey
(Above) Danny Eichler was hard to beat when he brought his dirt late model to Dayton Speedway. This photo was taken in 1980.
(Below) Bill Bartholomew goes for wild ride in 1980.
(Above) Legendary Buster Blackford (Dayton Speedway Hall of Fame 2009) is shown at speed on Dayton Speedway's backstretch in this 1980 shot. (Below) Blackford, the Drexel Honker, pushes the #55 through the fourth corner.
(Above) Bob Sennker's Bluebird on the scales at Dayton. (Below) Buddy Schrock.
(Above) Don Gregory and (Below) Jeep Pflum in a pair of 1980 photos from Dayton Speedway.
(Above) Springfield resident John Wilson was a frequent visitor to Dayton Speedway, as was L. J. Linnes (below).
(Above) Jim Fredericks has had a long and illustrious career and in 1980 he brought this car to battle on the Dayton Speedway banking. (Below) Three Late Model racers battle the track and each other circa 1980.
(Above) Buster Blackford, #55, battles with Jeep Pflum, #38. Notice the condition of the track near the guardrail.
(Below) Donnie Seaborn is all alone on the Dayton backstretch.
(Above) That's Dick Dunlevy, Sr. behind the wheel of Hoot Gibson's Thunderbird.
(Below) Danny Eichler, #38, runs the high line while battling with the #11.
(Above) John Lawhorn signals one more lap before the green flag flies.
(Below) Lawhorn and other Late Models tangle in this 1980 photo.
(Above) John Vallo celebrates another victory after wheeling Paul Storer's #5 TransAm into Dayton's victory lane.