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Vallejo Hardtops

DRIVER GALLERIES 

Submitted photos and info by friends or family of various drivers.

Del Quinn         Submitted by Ray Skaines
This shows how days, weeks, maybe months of labor can be destroyed in seconds.
These are photos taken in 1966 of Del's new hardtop before it was wrecked, shown in the last photo.
The last two photos are from 1970.


Pete Paulsen

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Thought this interesting enough for it's own section.
 Chet Thomson took a wild ride that ended up on top of Pete's number 66 back in 1965.
Here you can see the end results.  Both insured the employment of their body-men for at least another week.
The photo to the left may have been taken the same night, before the crash, obviously. 
Pete was supporting a local beauty pageant with signage on the door.  
Let's hope the contestants made out better than Pete's car.
UPDATE: The poster on the side of my hardtop was for the Miss San Leandro pageant, which was won by Miss House of Wheels Jodi Kennard, who went on to place third in the Miss California pageant. Also Chet wasn't the driver that landed on top of me, it was Rich Govan; Chet wasn't around at that time. 
Sincerely, Pete Paulsen        (Thanks Pete)

Don O'Keefe photo


Kenny Travels   submitted by his son Rick Travels

1967 Champs KennyTravels, stock car and Phil Pedlar, hardtops.
1967 Jack Clayton, anouncer, Kenny Travels, George Acree promoter.
Kenny and crew after trophy dash win.
Kenny with hardtop #17

Whitey Kinslow

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Here we have various photos of John "Whitey" Kinslow.  
Most of these are from Pacheco and maybe a few from early Vallejo.  
The years and places are unidentified. Pre 1960s for sure.
Whitey's son, John Jr. sent these in.  
Thanks John for your contribution.


Jim Perry, brother Earl Perry and son Jim Jr.           Submitted by Jim's daughter Maria Ferriera

Ken Belli sent these of various drivers and their hardtops.
Each one has the driver identified. 
These appear to be non-Vallejo except Rod Zanoline who drove Vallejo many years along with many other tracks.

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