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GB4Farve86@aol.com
Monday, November 20, 2000 12:27 PM
pure stock for sale?
looking to buy a pure stock to race at stockton 99 speedway, willing to pay
alittle over the $1500 claim rule, but not to much over because it could just
get claimed. i have seen alot of pure stock cars for sale, but i want one
that was built on the stockton rules so i don't have to change to much. must
be chevrolet, camaro prefered, looking for prefarbly for automatic, but would
consider a manual transmission.
~Udo
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GB4Farve86@aol.com
Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:19 AM
how do you sign the guestbook?
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Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:12 AM
POST TURKEY DAY RENTAL
>>>THERE HAS BEEN AN INQUIRY FOR A TRACK RENTAL FOR FRI. NOV.24TH (day after
Turkey Day). it can be put together if enough are interested in
participating. If you are interested...please call Duane before Mon. 20th, or
Ron Roach before the Wed deadline. Arrangements must be made...so call...If
the weather permits...and Track Work hasn't begun...and enough are
interested...by should be a go.....hours will be determined later.
Remember call Duane B-4 Mon.,477-9030 or Ron Roach 477-7439 by Wed. Leave a number
so we can keep you informed.
Dean Gray goldwing44@hotmail.com
Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:07 PM
this was a full body stock car And
it was driven by Dale Linville out of mosdale,it was red and white,he ran stockton for
about 4 or 5 years before going to run a fremont
thanks Dean Gray
Dean,
Are you refering to Henry Brown of Stockton, who ran a Nomad Limited sportsman in the early seventies? Henry is definately still with us and there's a picture in our history section of this web page! Thanks for the comment.
webmaster, stockton99speedway.com.
Dean Gray goldwing44@hotmail.com
Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:26 PM
Good to see the guestbook back.
Let's keep the storys coming I was 15 in high school when I saw my frist x rated movie at the races lol,for almost 9 years I didn't miss a race till going into the Air Force in the 70s,now I work on the safty crew at Altomont raceway,If you need any help at stockton let me kowthat is where my heart is
Dean Gray
P.S. I trying to find pic of a 57 nomad wagon that ran in the 70s I helped build it the driver is no longer with us
name=capbwbret
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+think+Jim+was+too+but hard to+read.
11/14/00
name
email
glad to have you back hope there is no bashing allowed!!
name=Jim+Shiels
email= jshiels@elite.net
11/10/00
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11/10/00
Trisha said:
Just+wanted+to+tell+every1+what+a+great+yr+it+was..
+some+good+racin++some+bad+racin..........+just+being+a+part+of+it+was++grrrrreat....
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11/10/00
Richard Davis Sr said:
INTERESTING STORIES that Barky told us about the OLD DAYS
@ 99 Speedway ...
The night that our main event went TRIPLE RATED !
First some History .... by Bob Barkhimer
Stockton Speedway and Modesto Speedway
It was 1946 when three Stockton men ... Bill Hunfeld , Les Honey and Stan Moore opened two speedways for Midget Auto Racing :
Stockton Speedway on North Wilson Way 1/4 mile DIRT ... BANKED Football field in Infield WITH LIGHTING Grandstands on both sides of track Seated approx 5000 Fans Modesto Speedway on the West side of Modesto 1/4 mile DIRT ... FLAT Football field in Infield WITH LIGHTING Grandstands only on South side of track
Put yourself back to 1946 ... The war had just ended and hometown America was READY TO GO TO THE RACES ! Opening night at BOTH race tracks was a DISASTER . Bill Hunfeld had been around theaters and roller rinks had no idea ( as a promotor ) that when intermission came around over 3000 race track fans would head for the restrooms . In addition to having restroom lines longer than the track was long the new promotors discovered another problem :
NONE OF THE NEW PROMOTORS HAD ANY CONCEPTION OF HOW TO PREPARE OR MAINTAIN A DIRT TRACK. WE HAVE YEARS SINCE HEARD THE COMMENT THAT THE DUST WAS SO BAD FANS COULDN'T SEE WHERE THE BATHROOMS WERE ANYWAY SO IT DIDN'T MATTER.
Week 2 ... someone suggested OILING the track @ Modesto which made that track consistent ... TWO DISASTERS IN A ROW !
The three promotors then decided to PAVE STOCKTON SPEEDWAY however they had different people giving them differing advice on the shape of the banks.
Bill Hunfeld wanted a STRAIGHT LEVEL BANK from top to bottom. Stan Moore wanted a CURVED SAUCER SHAPED BANK .
YOU GUESSED IT ... After many heated arguements they COMPROMISED : TURN ONE WAS BANKED LEVEL STRAIGHT TURN TWO WAS BANKED CURVED SAUCER SHAPED
The agreement was the turn that produced the best racing would be chosed for both ends of the race track. The partner with the BAD TURN SHAPE would pay to have it replaced with the TURN that produced the best racing.
Bottom line ... The shape of the two turns produced bad handling cars and fouled up drivers lines. Many racers would sail thru one corner only to have their car push or spin in the other corner. This was tolerable with one car qualifing however when 10-20 cars are racing @ speed it CREATED EXCITEMENT ... THE CROWD LOVED THE (CONTACT/CRASH EM UP) RACING ! To this day Stockton Speedway has two turns ... each with its own BANK / CORNER shape , design and difficulty of racing @ speed.
Enter the NIGHT STOCKTON SPEEDWAY WENT TRIPLE RATED ...
It was now the LATE 1960/s ...
The drivers of one of the heat races all got together before the race:
They took the green flag ... RACED ONE LAP and pulled up to the wall beside the fence in turn one. All the drivers shut off their motors ...got out of their cars and sat on TOP of the crash wall facing the HUGE drive in movie screen next door to the race track ...
YOU GUESSED IT ... They were watching "DEBBIE DOES DALLAS" STOCKTON SPEEDWAY WAS NOW RATED TRIPLE XXX !
About half of the WIDE EYED grandstands APPLAUDED and CHEERED while the other half screamed in shock . Here was a Saturday Nite Race show with TWO SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. Other race tracks chuckled that the South End of Stocktons Grandstands ( that were in full view of the DRIVE IN SCREEN ) should be rated double or triple XXX !
Letters were written to the County Board of Supervisors however their hands were legally tied. In the mean time Stockton was one of the few Nascar race tracks that offered MOVIES in-between races . Imagine coming home from the races NOT KNOWING who won the fast heat but re-calling that Debbie was INDEED in Dallas !
Eventually all good things come to an end ... The theater owner decided to to change his Saturday nite starting time to 11 PM ... Some of the fans were happy ... however the drivers now wanted to strike without their MOVIE BENIFITS !
CURTAIN CALL ... ((( THE PIT PASS plus 2 TICKETS ! )))
We were sponsoring a Nascar Super Modified based out of San Jose . Our driver was a fast main event racer with top notch equipment . We towed to Stockton to get some LAP time for one of the OPEN COMP Super Modified races at the end of the year. Our driver had several very FAST laps when he sailed into turn one and NEVER TURNED ! IMPACT and dozens of the all too familiar " WOW ... I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CAR HIT THAT HARD BEFORE" comments ! Those were the days of building our own narrowed front axles from FORD I Beam front axles. ((( These were buggy spring Super Modifieds )))
The front axle broke ( when our driver hit the wall) and our RF Tire and WHEEL with part of the axle ripped off our car and went 15-20 feet UP and OVER the catch fence and into the ADULT DRIVE IN NEXT DOOR.
It was weeks before our driver admitted he was MESMORIZED by the explicit frames that he saw ((( On the movie screen ))) going down the front straight ... he was staring at the TRIPLE XXX movie and simply FORGOT TO TURN LEFT !
On the way home that night we were chuckling about how to explain what we spent to our wives ...
We naturally had to pay for our NASCAR PIT PASSES to get to the races ... However we had to come up with a GOOD REASON why we had to buy TWO TICKETS to the ADULT DRIVE IN MOVIES .... To this day our wives DO NOT BELIEVE that we had to buy tickets to get in the MOVIES to look for our TIRE AND WHEEL !
PS ... The ticket booth actually made us BUY TICKETS to get in the drive in movies ... We found our TIRE / WHEEL and part of the axle tossed them all in the back of our pickup and when back to the race track to put our car back together.
NOTE: Tire and axle story courtesy of Wayne Reed , Columbia Ca.
11/05/00 11:15PM
> >From Charles Johnston
> E-Mail Address: Chuck52@Ventura.perki.net
>
> To webmaster@stockton99speedway.com:
> I am sorry if you didn't get my
message. Until a couple of
> days ago, I didn't
> know that William Hunefeld was an auto racing promoter and had helped
> found a
> track which was still in existence. I do follow auto racing due to the
> fact that Ventura is the home of a raceway at the local fairgrounds
> where Jim Naylor, the
> promoter, has put on shows for well over twenty years. Over the past
> nine years,
> I have seen alot of sprint car and midget races.
> But I have been a boxing fan and a
researcher of boxing history
> for about 25
> years. One of the things that I have done is to look for California
> boxing items and results from the middle 1880s to 1940. in old
> newspapers on micro-film. I ran across a Willie Hunefeld quite a few
> times, especially in the Los Angeles Times from
> late 1915 to about 1923. The little biographical sketch on the Stockton
> "99" web-
> site says that Hunefeld was a light-heavyweight contender, which is a
> stretch because
> he fought as a lightweight during most of his career. It is doubtful
> that he was more
> than a journeyman, but he still was a capable fighter.
> He had a good amateur career while living
in Los Angeles and then
> started to
> box in four-round bouts at Jack Doyle's place in nearby Vernon, which is
> an incor-
> porated town that is little more than a glorified industrial park which
> is just south
> of Central Los Angeles. Hunefeld boxed some of the better California
> fighters of
> his day and piled up a crediable record. I have compiled a partial
> record of his
> bouts. .
> One interesting note is that a Billy
Hunefeld was a matchmaker
> for a short-
> lived boxing club in Long Beach in 1919. I was wondering if this was
> Willie
> Hunefeld because I knew that he was in high school in 1915. In other
> words, he
> was a matchmaker at the age of 20 or 21, a very young age for such a
> position.
> I correspond with a man who does
quite a bit of research on
> boxing when he
> goes to Arizona to visit a daughter and grandchildren. He compiled
> Arizona fighters' records, including those of Owen Phelps, a good
> middleweight and light-heavy
> weight who was from the Phoenix area, and Billy Alger, a lightweight and
> welter-
> weight from Arizona. It is interesting to note that Willie Hunefeld, as
> he was known
> in Los Angeles, fought as Billy Hunefeld in Arizona. He fought Alger,
> who would
> later box in alot of bouts in California and then go back to the East.
> Owen Phelps was managed by Hunefeld.
Phelps started boxing as a
> school-
> boy and faced Harry Greb, an incrediable fighter who was the World
> Middleweight Champion. Greb was one of the greatest pound-for-pound
> fighters all time. Owen
> also faced Bert Colima at an early age. Bert was a Mexican-American
> from
> Whittier, California and was a big drawing card in the Los Angeles area
> during the
> 1920s.
> My friend told me that Billy
Hunefeld promoted boxing cards in
> Arizona. There was one great fighter who came out of the Phoenix area
> during the 1930s.
> He was black and won the World Light-heavyweight Title. His name was
> John
> Henry Lewis. He bit off more than he could chew by going up in weight
> and challenging Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight Title. Lewis was
> knocked out in
> the first round.
> I traced Hunefeld to Stockton, where he was
during the 1930s. I
> knew that he
> was a promoter there and I knew that he was the manager of a heavyweight
> boxer
> named Phil Brubaker. Stockton was a good boxing town for quite awhile.
> During
> the late 1800s and the early 1900s, there was quite a bit of boxing
> there. Two good
> black boxers who were brothers lived there, Charley and Rufe Turner.
> During the late 1920s and the
1930s, Stockton was a town that
> was a center for young Filipino workers who were laying over or were
> trying to get another job
> from contractors who came to town looking for laborers. In order to
> attract Filipinos to see the boxing shows, alot of the main events would
> have a Filipino
> fighter. As a result, most of the Filipino fighters who fought on the
> West Coast also
> fought in Stockton.
> Like I said, I didn't realize that William
Hunefeld was an auto
> racing promoter.
> To find out is unbelieviable. The winner of the first main event at the
> new raceway
> was Vuky! Wow! Hunefeld also promoted auto races at other venues?
> Hune-
> feld had some career. I found on the Social Security Death Records that
> he died
> in 1969 and that a Ruth Hunefeld died in the 1970s. There was a William
> Hunefeld,
> 21, and his wife, Ruth, on the 1920 U.S. Census. I sure hope that I was
> a help to
> you and I will be happy to give you more information as I get it.