|
Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club Remembering with Honor the Great Stock Car Racing Drivers from the Past at Peoria Speedway
By Scott Shults - Peoria Speedway Announcer and Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club Founder New Email Address
You are PORC Visitor
The 19th. Annual Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club Oldtimers Reunion was held on Sunday - September 21 - 2008 at Peoria Speedway with a Huge Crowd Attending and a Dust-Less Speedway Thanks to Everyone that Raced with Us
Vintage Stock Car Participants Verne Schuman # 2 - 1935' Ford Desan - Blue Grass, Iowa Stevie Shannon # 15 - 1957 Chevy - Peoria, Illinois (Herb Jr's Car) John Smith # 35 - 1955 Chevy - Peoria, Illinois (Kookie Wetsel's Car) Butch Dunn # 99 - 1947 Crosley - Sheffield, Illinois Ron Wilson # 34 - 1934 Plymouth - Pekin, Illinois
KING of the HILL Winners : Hornet - Zac Kuhel # 0 / Street Stock - Noah Fau # 89 Sportsman - Jason Weyeneth # 00 / Modified - Riley Herman # 27 Late Model - Tony Fisher # 13 Over-All King of the HILL - 2008 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPION Jason Weyeneth # 00
Vintage Stock Car - Illinois State Champion Stevie Shannon # 15 - 1957 Chevrolet
Mini Sprint - Illinois State Champion Austin Archdale # 2
Mini Sprints State Championship Race
PORC Club Members of the Year - 2008 Betty & Corey Bragg of Peoria - # 71 Street Stock - Above Barb Adkins of Norwood - Below
WHAT A GREAT DAY WE HAD !!!
The P.O.R.C. 'Hall of Fame' Photo Room at Mooney's Pub
|
|
|
|
18th. Annual Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club Oldtimers Reunion & Vintage Stock Car Meet September 09 - 2007 - Peoria Speedway ... A Tribute to Herb Shannon ...
Donna & Herb Shannon with Our American Flag in Pace Truck
|
|
New Photo of the Week |
Bob Graham # 26 - Amatuer Division at Peoria Speedway - 1962
Ronnie Weedon # 00 Late Model - 1972 Mustang
Wins Feature at Peoria Speedway - June 10 - 1972
Frances "Wildman" Kelly # 25 Pontiac - Macomb Illinois
Below Photo View from the Back-Stretch Bleachers at Peoria Speedway - 1973
Cars in Line for Time Trials are Jim Tobin # 8 - Steve lance # 25 - Glen Oesterle # 42 - Jerry Roedell # 1
Below - Back-stretch at Peoria Speedway -1973
Remember the Old Pit Gate Entrance
Packing the Track are # 33 Terry Schreiter & # 71 Dave Weaver
8 Feature Wins out of 16 for Beauchamp, thus far in 1966
Al Dew # 82 - 1957 - Peoria Speedway
|
|
Coy Holt # 17 ~ '67' Chevelle ~ 1973 Season
Peoria Speedway
|
|
Freddie Voight # 3 ~ '67' Camaro ~ 1973 Season
Peoria Speedway
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks to Bill Herberger for the above photos
You are PORC Visitor
=======================
Aerial View of Peoria Speedway in 1971
Kenny Sparks # 29 - 1955 Pontiac
Herb Shannon Drove the Hiss-OX at Peoria Speedway in Open Competition
Stock Car Events in 1955 and Set a 75 Lap Record that was never Broken
20 min : 53 sec . 74 one-hundreths
Gary Cook Sr. # 64 - Sportsman Division - 1979
Peoria Speedway
Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club & Hall of Fame Room is Located at Mooney's Pub - 4827 W. Farmington Road in Peoria, Illinois
Jerry Roedell with Frank Dixon & Phil Samp
1961 Illinois State Champion
~~~ Peoria Speedway ~~~
========================================
Vintage Photo of the Week
And Yes, Frank is still Racing in the
Late Model Division at Peoria Speedway in '2007'
========================================
========================================
The Ray & Margaret Guss Party
at Mooney's Pub on July 08, 2006
after the Stock Car Races at peoria Speedway
Cheers to the Greatest People in the World, Margaret & Ray Guss
Ray Guss Sr.
Our Friend and Long Time Hero !!!
Gary Roe - Ray Guss Sr. - Scott Shults
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Visit Our New Friends
Vintage Racing & Club Site !!!
ILLINOIS VINTAGE RACING
Click on to address below :
http://www.illinoisvintageracing.com/index.html
Art 'Fireball' Fehrman of Chicago
Name: Art 'Fireball' Fehrman
Email: Artandpat@sbcglobal.net
Past Stock Car Racing Star of Santa Fe Speedway
and Earlier Tracks in the Chicago Area
***********************************
***********************************
***********************************
Just a Good Ole Boy
Below is Grandpa Jim Carter of Pekin from 26 Years Ago
Today at 70 Years of Age, Jim will be Competing in the Late Model Division
for the 2008 Racing Season at Peoria Speedway along with the other
Sixty-Something of Age Club Members including :
John Smith and Frank Shickel Sr.
The "Hall of Fame" Room at Mooney's Pub
P.O.R.C. Club Members Barb & Gene Adkins
Checking Out the History of the Peoria Speedway
Michelle Bruce of Mooney's Pub and P.O.R.C.Club Member Gary Roe
Presents Jay ( Wildchild ) Bruner with the "Honorable Speedway Award"
for '2005' in the P.O.R.C. "Hall of Fame" Room at Mooney's Pub
For His Contributuions to Stock Car Racing
Hard at Work in the "Hall of Fame" Room is Our
Longtime Friend of the Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club, Sam Mahoney,
Owner of the 'Nearby Nitelife' Publication of Central Illinois
*************************************************
Visit Mooney's Pub Web-Site at the following :
*************************************************
*************************************************
The Late Jerry Roedell of Peoria Illinois
1958 & 1961 Point Champion at Peoria Speedway
1961 Illinois State Champion
Voted the Most Popular Driver of All Time
at Peoria Speedway !!!
***************************************************
Check out our New Additions to
the Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club
Web-sites at:
***************************************************
1968 Peoria Speedway Point Champion Jim Gerber of Long Grove Iowa
***************************************************
Here's one of the Great, Past Season
Point Champions at the Peoria Speedway !!!
NASCAR Veteran / Johnny Beauchamp
from Atlantic, Iowa
in the 1955 Chevrolet / Kartville Special # 55
The Late Johnny Beauchamp 
**************************************
**************************************
Welcome to Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club & "Hall of Fame"
Al Terrell - 1958 - Peoria Speedway
==========================================================
A 'Memorial Tribute' to Kenny Sparks
We have lost another one of our 'Hall of Fame' Members in August of 2005
Our Fellow Stock Car Driver and Friend...... 'Kenny Sparks'
In Memory of Kenny Sparks # 29 
1963 'Amateur Driver of the Year' at Peoria Speedway
in his 1955 Pontiac # 29
This was One of Kenny's Many, Many Feature Wins in 1963 at Peoria Speedway
Sparky in his First Amateur Stock Car in 1962 - Wins the Amateur Feature in his 1953 Plymouth
The Below Photo is of Kenny and His Crew in 1963
Gary Walker - Kenny Sparks - Donny Walker - Tom Aldred
The # 21 Amateur Car is a 1955 Plymouth Driven by Gary Walker
Sparky Wins in Jim McMurtrys # 29 Mustang and in his # 29 Late Model
Although Kenny is no longer with Us, He will never be Forgotten at Peoria Speedway
The '2005' Peoria Oldtimers Racing Club Oldtimers Reunion and Race Meet
was held in Memory of 'Kenny Sparks'
==============================================================
Sparky in one of Jim McMurteys Awesome Ford Mustang Late Models at Peoria Speedway
