1970-71 Englishtown

[ss wannabee]

I know a little about what you're looking for if I can recall correctly...I was a kid fresh out of high school then...and went to Englishtown for the first time in 1971, to the WCS event in May, (on Sunday), and to the Summernationals in July, (on Saturday). The points race was rained out during elims in the afternoon, and they returned the following Sunday to finish. We came back the next weekend also... All eliminators EXCEPT Super Stock....they were "booked" into a NED-1 Association race at York?? that day and couldn't make it up. Not sure of cars in those particular classes you asked about at this points event...but I believe Stock Eliminator was won by Jack Worrell?? in that green convertible Ford...what class was it...a '69 Fairlane convertible with 428 and auto trans?
The Summernationals was hot and sticky...I believe Bobby Warren probably won J/S...This was the race with Dave and Judi Boertmann in the final in Stock...(in Rod Shop cars), and I think he bulbed on the second light (full tree then) to give the win to her...I wasn't there on Sunday for the finals...but bought a drag sound effect record of this event a year or two later...and they had at least the semis, and the finals of each eliminator on it.

[ss wannabee]

I played that record (especially the Stock segment) for many years...but sold it at a flea market a few years back. Anyway, I think I remember Bobby Warren and Mark Mazotta, (in an A/S Corvette), bowing out in the semi's in Stock to the Boertmanns'... also think there might have been a run (in elims) where the Berejik Olds ('70 car-F/S?) bowed out...but don't remember to whom...I think that was on the record as well. Maybe someone has that record out there? What do I remember about being there? I recall a LARGE Rod Shop presence...many cars in Modified, Super Stock, and Stock from there...Didn't Bob Riffle win Modified that year? Stockers that I think I remember...Dave Lebrun in his blue Camaro...running B/Stick?, Norm Fryer in a '66 427-Biscayne?, NOT sure of other higher-classed cars...I think Worrell was there again. I was into the older Jr. Stocks...and they were on the way out...Other cars there...Alex Jarrell's O/S wagon, also his son, Dick in a '69 Chevelle wagon-350-stick, L or M-Stock?, Fred Sulloff in a R/S '55 wagon, Harry Neide in a O/SA '57 delivery, Greg Luneack in a '60 Chevy, and "Michigan Al"...not sure which (Provoast or Seger)...in a '59 Chevy called "The Blue Tick."

[Hemi Moose]

Did anyone ever get a copy, if so can someone please scan a print out of it and post it in here.

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by ss wannabee

I know a little about what you're looking for if I can recall correctly...I was a kid fresh out of high school then...and went to Englishtown for the first time in 1971, to the WCS event in May, (on Sunday)...

Me too, except I was 13. I was there Saturday afternoon. It really made a great and lasting impression on me. Never have I seen that many variations of 1955, 1956 and 1957 Chevys drag racing at one time and haven't since then. I regret not bringing along with me my mom's Kodak Instamatic camera.

Up to that time the only high performance cars I ever seen were on the street or drag cars being trailered (or flat towed) home on Route 18 or parked somewhere on the premises of a filling station. Seems like at least one gas station in every town had a drag car. If not, for sure there was a late model supercar or hot rodded car of some sort there.

Seeing drag racing live with all its sights, sounds and smell vs. just looking at the pictures and reading about the racing action in the pages of Car Craft, Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, etc. was like, to put it mildy, the difference between night and day.

M68