Re: What racer has been driving the longest ?
 

Joe, I can remember sitting in the lounge at the Holiday Inn just up the road from the track at Atlanta about 23 years ago, on Friday night after the first day of qualifying for the points meet. Lex Dudas was sitting at the next table, and about 11 o'clock that night he said, "if it were up to me, I'd take every delay box, every throttle stop, and every air or electric shifter, put them in a pile, run them over with a bulldozer, and set them on fire". We can all dream.

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I'm sure that there are some that have done this longer but how about Leon Miranian. Started racing in 1959 at Manassas Va and Aquasco Md til the next year when 75-80 opened the gates. Was a regular thru the sixties there winning many trophies and stock class and eliminator titles. Has always raced stock and then in about 1970 moved to super stock, his red Corvette has been campaigned since the mid seventies. A many time record holder and has won national opens and divisional events but has not YET won a national event. It's overdue but may soon happen! I met Leon in the very early sixties in the beginning of my announcing career. It's people like him that make our sport great!

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What about Dave Boertman and Chuck Gallagher?

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Don't forget Tony Janes.He raced Irwindale,Lions,Fontana Drag City,and Pomona,sometimes all in the same week. He has a trophy from OCIR opening day in August 1967 from the bracket he won.

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I think GLEN MACE started around 63 or 65 with a57 chevy waggon still racing superstock...............J SLANE

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I think Vic Guilmino goes way back!

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Jim Hale and Bill Gibbs have been racing a long time.
Jerry

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Jim Hale, Bill Gibbs and I were talking one day. We decided only Obama's Stimulus had more zeros than our age. I was the kid.

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Jerry Stealy , has been racing class cars for a long time,forty plus years I believe. He was tough this year in the Heartland S/SS series.

Jimmy D. Hyink

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I'll go with Spider Spanakos.I was talking with him in his trailer once and he was telling me stories of him racing around the Roman Colisieum in his stovebolt chariot.I don't think anybody could top that.
Seriously,he's been at it for over 50 years.Quite an accomplishment.