WhatsNew

Vintage IRA 8mm footage is now availible! Disk #1-25min, Disk #2-22min,
Disk #3-15min & Disk #4-30+ min. All are just $25 plus shipping!
For those who already have disks 1-3 disk 4 can be purchased for $5 plus
shipping! Footage shows some hot laps and pit shots from the old track at
Wilmot from 68-70. Tons of footage from Lake Geneva with a couple
complete races and lots of qualifying runs. Step back in Time!!!!!

We had the vintage cars out at the Lynch Motor Sports show on Sat. 5/9/09
Bumped into a few former IRA ers. Was thrilled to see Dick Aissen, Bob
Roosa and Bill Klein. All got to see Allen Kautz's #16 and Pop's #60 and
Johnny's A3 again, all cars that they competed with. Bob brought along some
of his photo's for me to scan, so look for a Roosa page soon! What a thrill to
finally make contact with Dick Aissen, we'll have a Aissen page as well! Bill
Klein is a local Burlington IRA Legend who we bump into on occasion. I have
a Klein page already and we continue to encourage him to spruce up his last
Frings Super Mod and join us at the shows!

Here is the current Vintage Modified Stock Car groups 2009 Schedule

Saturday May 30th - Cedarburg Revisited IV 10 am till 2pm

Saturday June 6th - Westosha Bible Church Car Show New added Bonus!!!!

Show and go at Wilmot Speedway with the IRA Sat Night June 6th

Sunday June 14th - Slinger Reunion Night

Tuesday July 7th - Champion Chicken Show 5 till 9pm (tentative)

Saturday July 18th - 141 Show, Francis Creek, WI

Sunday July 19th - 141 Play Day, Francis Creek, WI

Saturday August 1st - Wilmot reschedual

Friday August 7th - Central Wisconsin Raceway Show (Evening) Unity, WI.

Saturday August 8th - Central Wisconsin Raceway Play Day

August 29th - Chilton Play Day III

Sunday September 6th - Toucan Custard Show, West Bend, WI

September 19th - Hall of Fame Show, Hartford, WI.

This Sat June 6th will be a 2 for 1 for the VMSC Group. The Westosha Baptist Church car show from 9 am till
3pm and then the quick trip to Wilmot to show the cars in the Grandstand area for the second IRA race of the
year back at Wilmot. Gates open at 5pm and 15 Vintage cars will be on hand to jog your memories of days
gone by. As usual Pop's car is open for the youngster to take a seat. And as usual some Mom's and Dad's
are sure to jump in as well!! Bring your cameras!!

The Westosha show started out nice and dry but before we packed up in
came some moisture. Had 14 cars show up and everyone had a pretty
good time! Karen Pogo stopped in and took a look at Steve Muth and
Rick Fahl's Pogo cars. She also like Dan Muths Colburn Copy Car.
Chatted with Dennis O'Leary who helped Bob Layland put together Pop's
car in the early 60's. Also saw 60's Mod racer Ronnie Crane stop by.
Wilmot cancelled and has been rescheduled for Aug 1st. Next stop is Sl
inger Sunday night. Vintage Cars on the front straight with fans coming
onto the track to get a closer look. Get there early!! 6/10/09

Last nights Slinger reunion was a whole bunch of fun! The majority of the former drivers came from
the MSC ranks but some notable IRA drivers were among them. Aaron Solsrud, Bob Robel, Allen
Kautz, Larry Ninneman and Tom Teaters to name a few. I've been trading emails with Tom Teaters
who is actively searching for his late 70's ride. Tom planned on just stopping by to give me a few
pictures to scan for the web site. We talked him into joining us for a few hours. Tom reluctantly
agree to stay. Looked like he had a great time showing his scrap book to all the VMSC members and
then bumping into some of his old freinds once inside the gates. Not unexpectantly Tom got a new
lead on the wereabouts of his car in less then 5 minutes from parking his car! Great seeing Larry
Ninneman as well. Larry, his brother Randy and nephew stopped out . 6/15/09

More updates to Smokin Joe's page! Joe also
sent me some 1978 IRA Program scans that
point to Gary Dye as the true 1978 IRA Overall
Champion. Could this finally be the last word???
6/16/09

Started scanning photo's that just came in from Paul Cameron!! Also want to remined
everyone that at least 15 Vintage Mod's will be heading to Wilmot on Aug 1st. Some will
return on Fair night the 22nd as well!! On the Aug 7th the VMSC club wil take a road trip
to Central Wisconsin Raceway at Unity Wi. (Formerly Monster Hall) Sound's like we may be
bumping into Paul Cameron in person!! 20 guy's have expressed interest in renting the
track on Saturday the 8th!! Zoom Zoom Zoom!!!! 7/24/09

Had a great time at Wilmot last night! Vintage fans got a treat in watching some familiar names take
both B-Mains and the A-Main! Darrell Dodd and Smokin Joe Symoens took the B-mains while Tommy
Sexton Jr. out horsed the field to take the A-main! Great Show!!! Chatted with Jim Uttech, John
Tierney, Smokin Joe, Sexton Jr, Bill Schaffer Jr and gave Darrell a wave while moving Pop's old Mod
through the Pits after the show. Also saw Jr. Dodd, Roger ILes, Jimmy Hedges and DIck Colburn
moving about the grandstand area. Hope to get a few Vintage mod's back in the grandstand area for
Fair night! 8/2/09

The VMSC group traveled to Central Wisconsin Raceway in Unity WI for
a Friday night show. Unfortunetly mother nature had other ideas. The
group rented the track on Sat starting at 10am. CWR officials spent
hours trying to prep the wet track but finally at 1pm open wheelers
started taking laps on the track. Looked like a good time was had by
all. Fred Zack even stopped by to see some of the old familiar cars
throw some dirt! On Sunday 4 cars stayed for the Abbotsford car
show. Many people hadn't seen cars like ours ever race in that area so
many stopped by to look at the cars. Surprisingly Cal Maule, Bob
Zinda, Doug Wolf and our car all won trophies for our extra effort.
Sandy and Paul Cameron made the trip from Wausaw to Abbotsford to
come say hello. A couple weeks back I received a couple of their
racing scrap books to scan and add to the site. Had a nice couple hour
chat with them about the good old days of racing. Paul raced starting
in 59 till he retired from the track in 1974.
The Camerons still enjoy racing as their granddaughter Cheyenne was
a nationally recognized dirt cart racer and now runs street stocks at
Wausaw area tracks.
                     8/10/09

John Surges Photo
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Bumped into Bob Dworak last Sat at Wilmot. Got an invite to stop by the shop and pick up some
pictures to scan and share here. Bob and his brothers own the #83D driven by Tommy Sexton at
410 WOS and IRA shows. Justed added a Dworak and Sexton page. Check in the driver page area
and take a look. Bob was a 77 IRA rookie and Tommy's dad Tom Sexton was a long time IRA
competitor 8/18/09

Got an email this morning from Bill Portalski. He finally found some of his personal pictures of
some of his former IRA rides and sent them my way. One was especially fun for me to see.
Check the driver pages. Thanks Bill 8/19/09

Well, the 2009 Kenosha County Fair race is in the books with the Roger Iles family owned #36 takin
the A-Main. Todd Daun did a masterful job of getting the car to the front and keeping it there!
Plenty of former IRAers around as well! Roger Iles, Jr.Dodd, John Tierney, Jim Moulis, Bob Roosa,
and Ray Faulkner were in attendance. There were also a couple former IRA Champions out in the
pits as well. 4 time Champ Gib Wiser and 3 time Champ Dick Colburn were both wrenching for the
evenings events. Not surprisingly both will be inducted into the Southeastern Wisconsin Short
Track Hall of Fame this fall!!! 8/23/09

The Hall of Fame car show is set for tomorrow 9/19/09 at the Wisconsin Auto Museum. I'll be
there with some new tee shirts for sale. Looks like we'll head to the Dodge County fair grounds
for the evenings IRA race! Should be displaying in the grandstand area while there.
Hope to see you there!!

The Hartford and Dodge County Fairground shows were great! Excellent weather brought out
plenty of vintage fans and lots of fun was had by all. One highlight for me was a visit from a
gentleman who I've been trying contact for quite some time. I looked here and there only to have
been told that he had passed away. This ghost from IRA's passed walked up to John Surges at the
Hartford show and introduced himself. John knew how thrilled I would be to talk with him so he
brought him over to say hi. Some of us remember him as the "The Bristol Bullet" or simple "Billy
the Kid" but we found Bill Bohn to be alive and well!!! Had a quick chat with him just as we were
packing up to get to Dodge County, wish we would have had more time! Bill was one of the
original IRA Board of Director and he agreed with the news articles I tracked down and told us
about the trips to Whitey's house to get the ball rolling with the creation of the IRA. Bill said he
had plenty of pictures and we hope to make a connection some time soon to add them here!
Thanks for tracking us down Bill!! 9/20/09

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