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My life-long interest has been short-track auto racing.

My driving career spanned the years 1966 thru 1996. I retired from active racing after having a spinal fusion (a result of a 6 end-over-end rollover at Avilla Speedway years earlier).

Some of the highlights of my career include:
1. Avilla Motor Speedway Roadrunner track champion in 1974
2. Avilla Motor Speedway Semi-Late track champion in 1976
3. Elected to Avilla Motor Speedway Hall Of Fame in 1995
4. Getting a "Grand Slam" (winning the dash, heat, and feature) 2
times in a row at Montpelier (IN) Speedway in 1986
5. Winning my 100th race at Angola (IN) Motor Speedway on July 7, 1987

A lifetime of Indulging my
"Need For Speed"

My Picture pages contain some of my favorites from my racing career.

Be sure to check 'em out!!

My thanks to:

Frank & Mabel Eldridge (Mom & Dad) for helping me get into racing. Putting up with me building cars in Dad's garage, keeping cars & parts around, changing engines with a come-along and a chain over a limb on Dad's walnut tree, the list goes on and on!

All the guys that helped me out: Harold Shaw, Gary Shaw, Floyd Morgan, Al Cook Sr., Don Pinkerton, & so many others all gave me a lot of advice and help learning to work on cars.

The guys that crewed for me over the years. Craig Strock (crewed a bunch of my cars, even the ones that he and Keith (his dad) didn't own), Gene Shearer, Norm Runion, Jr., Richard (Butch) Kester, Jeff Grobis, Gary McCandlish.......what more can I say but that they're a great bunch of guys! Thanks guys!

Car owners: Keith Strock and Craig Strock. Keith was my car owner from 1974 - 1976, when I won my two track championships at Avilla Speedway in 1974 and 1976. Craig owned the Camaro I drove in 1980, taking wins at Avilla Speedway, Angola Speedway, and Baer Field Speedway. Tom Harmon, Jim Prince, Bud DeLong, Randy DeLong, Dave Rhoads, Bob Snyder, Sale Cooper, Stan Freed, Wayne Miller and others all put me in their cars at one time or another.