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As always Jim, you are on top of it!!! Thanks again for all your help and guidance. Took the car to the Meadowdale 50th reunion but it was rained out. Couldn't make the make up date unfortunately.Tom https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Jim, I took your advice on trying to get the car out there and get some exposure while searching internet sites for photos and info. I just bought an original 1958 SCCA member directory on ebay yesterday. That will give me the names of SCCA members in Decatur at that time. My dad or I will probably know some of them. Do you or anyone else out there have any suggestions on any forums or websites to post info on in my search for history? You probably saw in my ad that I came up with the name of E. A. Smith who drove a number 23 Corvette at Meadowdale in B/P class in a Aug. 1963 race. Don't know what year or color the car was yet. Thanks again for the help. Tom

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------Thanks for the correction, Jim. I assumed that the car at Classic was a 60 only because the Washburn car was a 59. Man,,,I can tell John G some stories about that car during its time at Classic. Im not sure weather he would laugh or cry. Dont know what was inside the motor but that car would flat FLY!!! Back then we just didnt value the car at all. It was just another fossil. How times change, huh????.......Bill S

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I have found that the Mr. E.A. Smith that might have driven this car was from Bethel, Pa. If anyone knows him or knows his phone #, please PM me or call me at 419-234-2628. Thanks, Tom

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My mistake, E.A.Smith was from Bethel Park, Pa

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Donna Mae Mims in her racing days

http://www.barcboys.com/Drivers5.htm

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Thanks for the help out there guys! I feel like I'm getting closer to solving this puzzle, and it may actually have a Don Yenko/Donna Mae Mims link!!! I still can't 100% say that my car is the number 23 car in the Meadowdale picture, my best evidence is the roll bar, windscreen and most of all the damage to the right rear quarter. I have attached a link to a picture of the 23 car being raced in 1963 at the SCCA Cumberland race. It's being chased by the same #77 Porsche as the Meadowdale picture. The owner driver of the #23 car is E.A.(Edwin)Smith of Bethel Park,Pa. Bethel Park is 12 miles from Cannonsburg,Pa., home of Yenko Chevrolet. I have noticed in my race research that every race I found that E.A.Smith drove in, Don Yenko drove in also. Is it possible that they were race buddies or even partners? Is it possible that the Corvette was purchased from Yenko Chevrolet. Can anyone out there put me in contact with Mr. Smith or his family? any help is appreciated. Tom Purdy 419-234-2628
http://www.nationalroadrally.com/pho...=1&cat=all

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E.A.Smith driving the same Corvette at Cumberland in 1962. #20 in C/Modified class

http://www.barcboys.com/Images/Cumbe...b-StartWeb.jpg

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Forgive me for being a little off topic, but here's another interesting picture from that same web site - http://www.nationalroadrally.com/pho.../3008/1182.jpg
http://www.nationalroadrally.com/pho.../3008/1182.jpg

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Car is still for sale. I will sell it without big brakes and/or wide wheels as just a FI car or even without FI unit.