Some old photos

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Edited Date/Time 11/29/2015 4:15pm
Marty Tripes with a proper holeshot



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Tommy Croft.


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Hasletjoe 11/26/2015 7:24am
11/26/2015 7:24am Edited Date/Time 11/26/2015 7:24am
So the last photo the rider has 56s on his helmet. Not doubting the post, but wasn't 56s Tommy Croft?
Way cool photos....
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Bultaco 11/26/2015 1:20pm
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Hasletjoe wrote:
So the last photo the rider has 56s on his helmet. Not doubting the post, but wasn't 56s Tommy Croft?
Way cool photos....
You're probably correct. The photo was not labeled. I did not look at helmet number. I looked at the style, Era, full face mask like Smith wore and figured it was him. Croft fits all those same factors.
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nicko-31 11/26/2015 1:58pm
11/26/2015 1:58pm
Doesn't the caption read "Major Tom in orbit" ??
project racer 11/26/2015 4:11pm
11/26/2015 4:11pm
Bob Elliott #626 and Gary Ogden #459 on the Suzuki's in the first pic. I was at Sunshine Speedway in '77 for the 500 national when the AMA stripped Gary of the overall win in the 125 support class. He stopped a few yards from the finish line, and gave his mechanic a ride to the checkered flag.

The AMA deemed this as a rule infraction. Not long after, Gary broke his leg badly, and never regained the form he once had.

Poor Bob is another tragic story for another time.

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Bultaco 11/27/2015 8:17am
11/27/2015 8:17am
nicko-31 wrote:
Doesn't the caption read "Major Tom in orbit" ??
Yep. I originally found and posted this photo from my phone. (Small screen) And I did not see the caption. Y'all are correct. Caption corrected. Not the first time in my life I've been wrong.
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BVS40FL 11/29/2015 4:15pm
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Scott, I was there also . A friend of mine and I were walking through the back section off the track that headed East toward the canal. Eventual winner , Croft, had caught a lapped rider in the S turn right in front of us. We couldn't get over the fact that after 1 and 3/4 motos on an open class bike, Tommy still had the wind left to yell "HEY" at the top of his lungs and scare the guy out of his way. We laughed all the way home.

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