The Vault

The Vault

RENE GRODE – “I FELT LIKE A COLLEGE RECRUITER”

Rene Grode went to great lengths in the mid to late 1970’s helping to build […]

BOB ABITZ – HONORING A VIETNAM VETERAN ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

(A chapter titled ‘The Flyin’ School Teacher’ from the 2016 release ‘Wisconsin International Raceway – […]

A TRIBUTE TO “MR. B” BOBBY BENNETT

(CHAPTER PULLED FROM THE 2015 RELEASE “LIFE IN THE PAST LANE – A HISTORY OF […]

CHAS VAN OOYEN – 2017 OUTAGAMIE CHAMP

For Chas Van Ooyen, his IMCA stock car title earned at Outagamie Speedway in Seymour […]

BOB SCHAMPERS AND THE RED BEDELL REPLICA CAR

(From the Green Bay Press Gazette column August 7, 2015) Bob Schampers is doing what […]

JOHNNY WHITMAN – THE IMCA MODIFIED MASTER OF 141 SPEEDWAY

Although just 26-years-old Johnny Whitman feels like a true veteran in the IMCA modified ranks […]

MAY 12, 1999 – RACING AROUND TITLETOWN

M.J. McBride gets more cheers than boos? Ken Fischer’s first ever career feature win? “Hot […]

GRAVITY PARK USA – 2018

For this week’s edition of “The Vault” we go back to a 2018 column I […]

LOOKING BACK WITH DOUG BLASHE

Reprinted from the Green Bay Press Gazette July 25, 2015 by Joe Verdegan (photo courtesy […]

‘RACIN’ IN THE 906 WITH GENE COLEMAN

Menominee, Michigan’s Gene Coleman took a ride around a dirt track at the age of […]