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Buddy Shay (6) gets some help from Bert McNeese (15) and they both go two wheelin at Denver’s Lakeside Speedway. Only Dan Daly (11) has developed a successful exit strategy at this point. Everyone got through with Shay and McNeese only having bent car as a result. (Leroy Byers photo)

By: Bob Mays

Joe Barzda wanted to see what Williams Grove would look like with Winchester-like banking in the spring of 1956. Amazingly, Joe brought the car down for a soft landing and motored away. (Walt Imlay photo)

Time trials at El Centro could be challenging at times as Lealand McSpadden (Gary Stanton 75) found out in 1978. Even a Hall of Famer like McSpadden couldn’t bring this one back. (Karl Korbacher photo)