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Ackerman Racing Team History. As I recall from conversations with my father, his first recollection of going to the races as a boy started with the #3. New Berlin, Ny. The car was owned by Herman Strain who had taken out a . The car was worked on by several local New Berlin businessmen (including Doc Myers) and was originally piloted by a thrill seeking Frank Wright. The team was novices however and had placed coil springs under the front end which according to Otto Graham, “Made the car act like a pogo- stick”.

Frank promptly put the car on it’s top the first time out at Morris Speedway, ending his racing . Jerry Pittsley later campaigned the car and my father tagged along with him to 5 Mile Point in Kirkwood, NY to watch the races. He remembered that Ken . That was likely in the 1. In 1. 95. 6 he and some friends in High School - Frank Myers, Ralph Raasted, and Mark Enman conned local garage proprietor Hermie Strain into giving them a 1.

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Ford Coupe to convert into a race car and the . Replacements were readily available at Burr Deans Junkyard on the Morris turnpike for $1.

We always looked for the 2. Frank and I would take his GMC Pickup up there with a plank in the back and we’d unbolt and engine and slide it on the plank into his truck. Throw it in the car and go racing.” Other .

He finally did catch me and that ended that.” Traveling over the hills of either the Morris or Oriskany Turnpikes to the speed plants often presented problems for the overworked flathead in the tow vehicle. Since the car was on a tow bar, “we’d have someone in the race car and have them fire it up to get over the hills.” Team members took turns driving the coupe until it was used up and needed replacement. The boys then located a Model A sedan for that purpose and didn’t miss a beat.

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Ralph used his own name when driving but my dad didn’t want me driving so when it was my turn . On a start at Morris we got to the first turn and the dust was just terrible, couldn’t see a thing. Somebody got into me and next thing I know I’m on my top, and the chains to the seat broke. Banged my head pretty good. We rolled it back over, put some oil in it and I went back out starting scratch. Got back to 3rd that day so not too bad.” By the end of 1. V8 team had run it’s course but the boys still wanted to go racing and so took their talents to Edmeston for 1.

Gene Cole had been racing at Morris out of a gas station in Oneonta in 1. Willie Wust of Edmeston. Willie had been at the game for some time at this point, his first driver had been Bill Brunschmidt, and then Otto Graham took over the chores. Gene had brought over his own car in 1. Mark Enman and Richard Ackerman came over the team built a 1. Ford coupe and the 4. The car was painted a two tone green by my Grandfather Roger Hall and sported the latest in Flathead Technology of the time, including a 4 3/8 X 3 3/8 stroker engine, a radius (Isky 4.

Harmon Collins dual point, Offy heads and 3 duece intake fed by strombergs. My dad recalls “Gene was a smooth and good driver. We never lost with that engine. He won the Brookfield Fair one night, which was as big a race as we attended and then the next day at Morris, it blew. Nothing left.” Dave Conde believes that Gene may have won the Championship that year but we don’t have any proof recorded, the car was dominant however which prompted and addition to the quarter panel  . The 1. 96. 0 year was an almost equally successful one, “We got a 4 . Dave thought Gene might have won the championship again and related that “they won a lot of races.” At the end of the year the team made a rare trip to Lebanon Valley and at the start Gene related “They kept jabbing the flag to go faster and faster, by the time they let it go I was wide open.” The rest of the field wasn’t and they promptly deposited Gene and the 4.

Gene ending up in the Pittsfield, MA hospital. Over the winter of 1. This car again was painted green with large yellow numbers . Dave Conde recalls “That was the bounty car, he won so much that the track offered $2. He had to be running at the finish in order for someone to collect but that was a big bonus when they were only paying $3.

The main competition at this point came from Maynard Smith driving Larry Priba’s #1 car at Morris. After the season Gene received an ultimatum from his insurance company, they didn’t want him driving stock cars any longer and Gene retired from the game.

For 1. 96. 2 Willie acquired the services of Kurzon . My father recalls “Moose was rougher than Gene. Willie put a rounded cow catcher on the front of the 4. One time, we had just put a new frontend in the car and Willie took it for a test drive. Wharton creek. He was looking down playing with the shifting linkage and ran right into the bridge.

We just gathered it up, rolled it back in the garage and put another front end in it.” Green was out in 1. Moose notched the July 4th Championship race at Morris as well as the last Brookfield Fair that year, Dave Conde recalls “Moose won the fair and his take was something like $1. I believe it actually was a Mickey Mouse watch.” This year Larry Priba’s car was piloted by Rudy Schlaephfer who still provided the main competition for the Wust team but it wasn’t enough as Moose was credited with the Track Championship at Morris (now knows as Midstate). For 1. 96. 3 Dave recalls the team still winning a lot, and possibly having another bounty placed on Moose.

The competition by this time was picking up, Gordy Smith’s Hudson, Ray Kennedy’s 2. Chevy, Rudy Schlaephfer, Smoky Joe Norton and even the occasional visit from Larry Nye (who later told me he came down expressly to “beat Moose Carey”) made for real good competition at the paperclip . My father recalls “Willies place was a real bonanza of parts. I once collected up pieces laying around and built a running flathead from them.

Mark Enman was a real good engine man, he learned how to degree the camshafts and once he did, our engines ran strong. I remember Willie taking bearings and wopping them with a hammer, then coating them with STP and fitting them into the engines. We do it the same way today.” At Syracuse that year the 4. Cliff Kotary according to my father, and they had pole for the first heat. A spun bearing ended the dream of dethroning Cliff who won his 4th straight that day. Dave Conde; “The engines would really run for 3 or 4 weeks, then be ready for a re- build. The dust at Morris was terrible and of course nobody knew what a good aircleaner was, it’d just eat them up.” For 1.

Midstate attempted to align themselves with Waterloo’s (Maple Grove Speedway) flathead rules as these were the rules used at the NYS Fair races (and I’m sure at least some Midstate cars showed at the Fair . The new rules required engines conform to a 2. This put many local teams in a bind, no longer were the Hudson’s and Mercury strokers allowed and it hurt car count.

To compensate, the track management decided to allow the OHV V8’s to compete and the Five mile Point competitors immediately took to the road for the . Dad related, “We built a Ford, it was a good engine but here we’d build a small flathead and then they let  in the V8’s, we didn’t have enough for them.” In effect the track handicapped it’s loyal participants and handed the keys over to the invaders. It was not accepted with grace, “Moose had the lead one day and (Stan) Lupka was on his tail. Stan had a Crosley bodied car with a Corvette (2.

The flathead blew and Stan got into Moose turning him around. I think the engine blew first, we were turning the hell out of it and when Moose let off I think it blew. Moose saw it differently, and figured it blew when Stan hit him. Stan comes by the next lap and pulls up toe Moose to see if he’s ok and Moose grabs him though the window and smokes him. A lot of that stuff went on around Moose.” This is the year that Lupka won the Midstate Championship but he had a lot of company from 5 Mile Point; Joe Donahue, Pete Cordes, Chuck Brady, and Gordy Smith were all consistent participants. To finish out the season, the team installed Fats Fullers 3. Chevy small block which , according to Dave Conde, “Willie hated that engine.

Heonly ran it for a few weeks and re- installed a flathead.” My father remembers “It was supposedly a good 3. For 1. 96. 5 the team built . The car was built extra- rugged to match Moose’s style, they used a Ford . The Monster was fitted with a Flathead and driven by Fred Willems as a 2nd car out of the garage. As Dave Conde put it “All the effort went into the . Willie thought it went to Watertown but who knows.

They had a lot of bearing trouble with the 2. I think they were lucky if they finished half the races they entered with that car.” Dad recalled, “We were giving a  lot away to the Chevrolet’s, most guys were using 3. I remember going to 5 Mile Point a few times. Once when we were towing the car down there in Willie’s Ranchero the trailer jack- knifed and got loose. We were lucky and able to get it hooked back up but brother. Another time down there was a big race, 1.

Moose drove the race of his life. Dave Kneisal had that bug, it was basically a sprint car and he was in the back.

He was coming up through and caught a wheel, put him right on top of the 4th turn wall and they had to get two wreckers to get it off and back on the track. So he started back scratch on the re- start, Moose is leading.

And Moose lead that thing all the way to nearly the last lap when Dave got by him. The next night we won at Morris and it was the best paying weekend we ever had, maybe $3.

Another time out to Lebanon Valley, where we were just fast enough to qualify, Moose is in the consi in the last qualifying spot. This fellow hits him hard in the corner and breaks a rear spring. Here comes Moose into the pits with the rear flopping back and forth, he jumps out of the car and goes over and clobbers that guy. The fellow was a local and he had a lot of friends around, we didn’t. Willie and I loaded the car and got the hell out of there.” The 8.