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Lennie Pond Lennie Pond is a former NASCAR race driver. He was born on the 11th of August 1940 in the small town of Ettrick in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He started his seventeen year NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in 1969 when he made his debut in the American 500 at Rockingham Speedway on the 26th of October 1969. He started in thirty eighth position in a field of forty cars and finished thirty fourth after trouble with the engine whilst driving the #44 Chevrolet for the Giachetti... Read Full Story

Mike Skinner “The Gunslinger”, Mike Skinner was born on the 28th June, 1957 in Susanville, California. His love of racing didn’t start in the same way as many NASCAR race car drivers who started driving go-karts at very young age. His beginnings were very different. Being a young teenager he was well known as being a pool hustler and a rebel. In 1975 fate decided to take a hand in shaping his future. Mike was driving his 1971 Plymouth Road Runner when he had a crash and ended up wrecking... Read Full Story

Pete Hamilton “The Gentleman Racer”, Pete Hamilton was born in the city of Newton, Massachusetts and was born on the 20th July 1942. He has always had a love of cars and this love was heightened when he started working in a service station after school when he was in the third grade at school. He first started racing stock cars in 1962 at the Norwood Arena at the age of nineteen. He moved up to Hobby Stocks and a few other divisions before trying his hand in the Modified Division. By 1965... Read Full Story

Ricky Craven Richard Allen Craven, Ricky as he is known, is a NASCAR driver who has won races in four different categories, the K & N Pro Series, the NASCAR Sprint Car Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Ricky was born on the 24th of May, 1966 and was raised in the town of Newburgh, Maine. His racing career began at the age of fifteen when he won twice in his first year, together with the “Rookie of the Year” honours at Unity Raceway. The... Read Full Story

Rob Moroso Crown Racing Robert Moroso was a young NASCAR driver who was killed in a motor car accident just two days after his twenty second birthday on the 30th of September 1990. He was the second son of Dick Moroso, owner of Moroso Racing Inc. and former owner of Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, Florida and, as is often the case when being brought up in a racing environment, Rob’s interest in racing started at a young age. “He really loved the racing,” Dick Moroso said. “He started... Read Full Story

Chevillac Kabriolet Te rat rod you see here has been name “Chevillac Kabriolet” and was build by Svenmeister of Hard Core Kustoms. It took Svenmeister over 800 hours to build this truck which was originally a 1952 Chevy and has now been modified so it is powered by a Caddy V8. Svenmeister was born in Switzerland and was modifying everything he came across from a very early age from his first set of Hot Wheels to his first bicycle. As time passed he realized his passion was for building... Read Full Story

Ron Bouchard in the 1980s (source: Wiki Commons) Like so many race car drivers Ronald “Ron” Bouchard was brought up in the racing industry where his father, Bob, owned and prepared race cars in the Modified Division. His cars were entered into every major track in New England, even setting a record of forty six victories in a single season, a record that still stands today. Ron was born on the 23rd of November 1948 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Ron began his racing career in 1963 at... Read Full Story

1958 El Nomado The car that you see here is a unique creation that was designed and built by Joe Cherry and is called “El Nomado”. Although this car looks like it could have rolled off a GM production line in 1958 this is actually Joe’s take on what such a car would look like had they done so. As you would expect from a vehicle of this caliber it has been given some modern upgrades to improve the performance and handling. All the braking system has been upgraded to include a dual... Read Full Story

Jabe and his son Ronnie Thomas Ronald “Ronnie” Thomas was born on the 8th of March, 1955 in Christiansburg, Virginia. He is the son of former NASCAR driver, Cerry Ezra “Jabe” Thomas whose career spanned from 1965 to 1978. Ronnie started to race in the Winston Cup Series in 1977 when he took part in four races including the Coco-Cola 500 at Pocono Raceway, the Delaware 500 at Dover International Speedway, the Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway and the American 500 at North Carolina... Read Full Story

Sam McQuagg & Laverne Kendrick Samuel “Sam” McQuagg was born on the 11th of November, 1937 in Columbus, Georgia. As a young man in 1956 he worked in the construction industry but Sam found the job lacklustre and boring, he felt the need to do something more exciting with his life so he bought a half interest into a 1934 Ford to race at the local dirt tracks. He found that he was very successful and is reputed to be almost unbeatable at the local Valdosta 75 Speedway. A few years later, in... Read Full Story