Super Duke Cook! - Auto Racing Memories

TAMALE WAGON · 09-25-2012, 06:20 PM

Duke at Eldora from 1985, enjoy!

Racephoto1 · 01-14-2013, 10:20 PM

I built this car , a long time ago. I was 17 years old and my dad dropped me off at Lloyd Shores" shop in Avon , Indiana on a Friday afternoon , around 2 o'clock . Lloyd welded up the frame.

First guy I see is Eddie Levitt, with a 12 back of beer in his arm. Eddie asked,"Hey kid, want a beer?!" Told him no, I was working. I had to have the car finished by early Sunday morning to make Eldora for hot laps. Never made it though. We ran out of hose to plumb the car early Saturday evening.

I was one lucky kid growing up. I got to met some of the best of the best, those really were the good old days.

indybigjohn · 01-15-2013, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by TAMALE WAGON

Duke at Eldora from 1985, enjoy!

Check out all the sponsors on that thing. Duke used to make it by getting a lot of smaller sponsorships. When he ran at IRP, he'd send in an entry blank with so many sponsors on it I'd have trouble getting all of them on the program insert.

black vette 59 · 01-18-2013, 06:54 AM

..great car....great photo......Great Britain ? ( Union Jack ? )

09-25-2012, 06:20 PM	#1
TAMALE WAGON Rookie Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: East Coast Posts: 26	Super Duke Cook! Duke at Eldora from 1985, enjoy! LEE GREENAWALT PHOTOGRAPHY staff photographer for Gater News! www.gaternews.com

01-14-2013, 10:20 PM	#2
Racephoto1 Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Age: 56 Posts: 50	Re: Super Duke Cook! I built this car , a long time ago. I was 17 years old and my dad dropped me off at Lloyd Shores" shop in Avon , Indiana on a Friday afternoon , around 2 o'clock . Lloyd welded up the frame. First guy I see is Eddie Levitt, with a 12 back of beer in his arm. Eddie asked,"Hey kid, want a beer?!" Told him no, I was working. I had to have the car finished by early Sunday morning to make Eldora for hot laps. Never made it though. We ran out of hose to plumb the car early Saturday evening. I was one lucky kid growing up. I got to met some of the best of the best, those really were the good old days.

01-18-2013, 06:54 AM	#4
black vette 59 Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: South Wales United Kingdom Age: 67 Posts: 66	Re: Super Duke Cook! ..great car....great photo......Great Britain ? ( Union Jack ? ) A thousand friends is not enough......one enemy is too much...