Richie Evans Tribute Cars

[Modtour4]

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Russ

[Goldy]

Wow - awesome!!!

[Modtour4]

I believe the design for the modified was someone else's design. It wasn't what the team would have chosen.

I believe the blue was one of Richie's last color schemes. And the orange isn't really a Richie orange either. But that's what someone (NASCAR) else picked.

Russ

[Bob T. Racer]

Let's give credit where credit is do. I think it's awesome that Tommy Baldwin comes up with these tributes to begin with. Somebody that hasn't forgotten where they came from. Maybe NASCAR can learn something, but i doubt it.

[Analyst]

Not bad, not great either, I dig it though, tribute efforts well received... If i had the paint gun, I would have nixed that Blue and went straight up Evans orange, black and background white.. Black nerf bars and front bumper.. I honestly don't recall any chrome on an Evans machine - I almost like the minimalist tribute on the Boehler #3, orange number and nerf bar..
I agree wholeheartedly that it should have been black and not blue Goldy! The red roll cage looks horrible and the car was ugly--in both appearance and performance--on the track today. I was pleasantly surprised by the 'minimalist tribute on the Boehler #3' - simple and it looked way cooler!

[MJProcko]

wow, folks are unhappy over which Richie car they chose to pay tribute with..... really. Yea the orange might have been a little off on the 4 but to say the orange and blue that Richie drove the last few seasons was not only a great modern update to the great pintos and coupes he drove..... the car was down right sexy.

[mikel 3]

maybe it wasn,t politically correct on the 4 car but it is the thought and effort that counts in my book.To do what they did nevermind the expense that was pretty awesome.As far as the 3 the so called minimalist effort is far from that. the time to take them off sand clean prime paint and reinstall them was quite a chore.between the guys in the shop,myself,my son nick and jb signs i woukd figure probably 15 man hours to do it.It may seem MINIMALIST to some but it sure wasn,t to us,it was worth every second of work to the team and we,re proud and honoredto do it.

[CuriousGeorge]

maybe it wasn,t politically correct on the 4 car but it is the thought and effort that counts in my book.To do what they did nevermind the expense that was pretty awesome.As far as the 3 the so called minimalist effort is far from that. the time to take them off sand clean prime paint and reinstall them was quite a chore.between the guys in the shop,myself,my son nick and jb signs i woukd figure probably 15 man hours to do it.It may seem MINIMALIST to some but it sure wasn,t to us,it was worth every second of work to the team and we,re proud and honoredto do it.

GREAT job...car looked AWESOME.

[Goldy]

Wow - awesomely awesome!!!

[Jaws]

IT LOOKED GREAT.....PERIOD!

Thank you to everyone who was involved, Richie would have loved it!

[PitGirl35]

I agree wholeheartedly that it should have been black and not blue Goldy! The red roll cage looks horrible and the car was ugly--in both appearance and performance--on the track today. I was pleasantly surprised by the 'minimalist tribute on the Boehler #3' - simple and it looked way cooler!

Do you think NASCAR was going to pay to have the roll cage painted? No. Maybe you can pay for it when your car is selected to run a tribute paint scheme. I haven't heard anyone call it ugly, in fact, when I was on pit road yesterday morning when the Evans' family was escorted down to the 4 by Tommy Baldwin, they said it looked great and I think the amount of pictures taken proved it. But then again everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

[Analyst]

Do you think NASCAR was going to pay to have the roll cage painted? No. Maybe you can pay for it when your car is selected to run a tribute paint scheme. I haven't heard anyone call it ugly, in fact, when I was on pit road yesterday morning when the Evans' family was escorted down to the 4 by Tommy Baldwin, they said it looked great and I think the amount of pictures taken proved it. But then again everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Sorry but I liken this to the fruitcake grandma makes at holiday time. Out of common courtesy, you tell grandma thanks for the effort and you even feign liking it when she presents it. After dinner, when she insists, you might even eat a small slice just to not make her feel bad. As soon as grandma’s gone, the fruitcake goes in the trash! We still like grandma, but we just don’t like her fruitcake… The only difference in this case is that we use a little social networking to talk about how bad the fruitcake really is!

[fastgal]

wow is all that comes to mind. try to respect the man and get crucified. the colors are wrong , nerfs are wrong , yes people you are correct it is not the 61 but jeez. i for one like it as well as many others.

[Acadia]

Recognition for Richie Evans is long overdue. Now he gets what he should have a long, long time ago. That's what this was all about. Not the color of the roll bar, the nerf bar, the letter outline, etc. If you want to see that, go look over the restoration done by Art Barry.

I was lucky enough to have seen Richie and the real 61. This was a great tribute incorporated into a modern car.

The Richie Evans Tribute "4" looked great.

[Howie]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.

[Goldy]

I have since neutered my opinion..

"One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" comes to what's left of my mind..

[Jaws]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.

:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

[Acadia]

It wasn't about the cars.

The changes to the cars was a means to evoke a very special driver as a tribute to that driver.

It's all about the driver. It's called respect.

[Bob T. Racer]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.

I wish i could of said it better Howie, but i can't, so i won't even try. You hit it right on!!!

[Sicklajoie]

Thanks for "the attention getter", Howie. :)

[JWfor8x]

I wish i could of said it better Howie, but i can't, so i won't even try. You hit it right on!!!

Me too, spot on!

[Acadia]

Maybe Charlie Jarzombek can get similar recognition.

I consider myself a pretty lucky fan of modifieds. I used to go to Islip Speedway and saw Jarzombek, and then Shangri-La where I saw Evans. These guys were incredible. Jarzombek deserves similar recognition. That #1 coupe was awesome.

[MJProcko]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.

I sooo love when Howie speaks...... Thank you Howie!

[JWfor8x]

Maybe Charlie Jarzombek can get similar recognition.

I consider myself a pretty lucky fan of modifieds. I used to go to Islip Speedway and saw Jarzombek, and then Shangri-La where I saw Evans. These guys were incredible. Jarzombek deserves similar recognition. That #1 coupe was awesome.

Yes, Charlie was awesome. I make it a point to go to Riverhead whenever the offset coupe is there.

[Analyst]

Have we made a mountain out of a molehill? In the end, we hope we can agree to disagree…

For the record we still think the tribute done by the Boehler team was very cool and I do not think Goldy (before he pulled a John Kerry flip-flop in Billy Bibbit style) nor did we ever mean to demean the efforts of those whose efforts went into creating it when using the term ‘minimalist’. IMHO, it was the far better tribute and is a case where sometimes less is truly more…

Apparently we missed the memo where one is advised to not complain about the taste or appearance of grandma’s made from an hackneyed Better Homes & Gardens recipe fruitcake or dare compare it to Aunt Janice’s original style homemade cake. Again, we still love grandma, just not her fruitcake…

Perhaps we are conditioned to worry less about effort and feelings and focus more on results because you see grandpa is an old Korean and Vietnam War veteran and he taught us some of our Contemporary American History in true Professor Turgeson style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTo9d2KM2Y)…

Next time we will skip that and just join the sheep who endlessly nitpick, grumble, and complain about how far the ride to grandma’s house is and how it requires a passport and too many days off from work to get there. It seems to us that we’re better off making comments about grandma’s fruitcake than later saying we should have gone to grandma’s house before she died… Thus, we ask: which is the more egregious comment to make toward grandma?

The latter we contend, which is why we made two visits to two different grandmas’ homes on Saturday (read: attended events at two racetracks on Saturday).

That aside, for those interested in seeing the best tribute to Richie Evans, I suggest the Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum where they have one of his big block Pintos on display. Exhibits dedicated to Jerry Cook and a famous speedboat racer from Rome that we fail to recollect the name of are there as well. Maybe you can stop on your way to Delaware next season! If you do, be sure to have some fruitcake along the way…

[Sluggo44]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.

AMEN Howie! - you hit the nail right on the head. Does it really matter what shade of orange or what color the nerf bars are? These teams are honoring a legend whos credit is long overdue. Like Howie says...quit your whining and go out to your local track and support the modifieds. The survival of the series depends greatly on support from the fans. We need to come together as a group and quit it with this fighting within.

[Magicshoes12]

AMEN Howie! - you hit the nail right on the head. Does it really matter what shade of orange or what color the nerf bars are? These teams are honoring a legend whos credit is long overdue. Like Howie says...quit your whining and go out to your local track and support the modifieds. The survival of the series depends greatly on support from the fans. We need to come together as a group and quit it with this fighting within.

Finally someone else see's the light too, I have really stopped posting on here because a lot of the convo's on here are worse than high school girl gossip, with all this he said she said bickering...it's a forum open to opinion but with the constant complaining it gets annoying and more importantly with WMT PR and other's in the media looking they could easily get discouraged. What would happen if TBR or Mr. Garbarino happened to get on here and look at some of this and see the reactions of people nit picking a shade of color, perhaps they would say f*** it and not do another tribute car for the next modified driver to get inducted. Like Sluggo said the survival of the series depends greatly on the support and all i ever see on here is negative negative negative and then everyone complains when something isn't being done. Instead of bashing, offer some input and maybe it'll happen, perhaps like my suggestion of the restart cone at Thompson, maybe to avoid this controversy paint a line across the track for all to see, little suggestions like that can help out more than calling someone out on stuff...jmho...but for now i'll sit back and watch the cat fights

[JWfor8x]

<<<That aside, for those interested in seeing the best tribute to Richie Evans, I suggest the Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum where they have one of his big block Pintos on display. Exhibits dedicated to Jerry Cook and a famous speedboat racer from Rome that we fail to recollect the name of are there as well. Maybe you can stop on your way to Delaware next season! If you do, be sure to have some fruitcake along the way… >>>


The difference there, of course, is that someone actually has to want to go and make the trip to Rome NY to see the Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. At New Hampshire, not only did the people who went to the races see the tribute cars, but so did the people accross the nation who tuned in the races on Speed. There is a huge difference in potential audience. Also, in the museum, there is an actual car that Richie Evans raced. That's great, but not quite the same. THe whole point is that Richie Evans was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame this year and he was being honorred for it. Maybe they should have painted the #4 car the exact same color prange, had BR Dewitt sponsor it and also renumberred it 61? Oh I forgot, they couldn't use the #61 could they? Since they couldn't have an exact replica, maybe what they did was fantastic and they should be thanked for there efforts. You decide.

[Acadia]

Look, many posts are by selfish advocates. Ignore them or have fun with them. NWMT PR put up a great response to the Masse jumped start. I was standing at the end of the backstretch and had a great view of that start. I also have a photo of the 13 waaaaaay ahead while still early in Turn 4. Anyone that still maintains that the 13 was robbed is an impartial advocate. They will never get it. There is outstanding, conclusive and irrefutable video evidence!!! Have fun with them. Same with all those that were pissed that the 36 was caught with an illegal carb, and the 7NY getting caught with the leaking intake. It is stunning to watch people defend and advocate those teams as clean given the evidence. Denial comes to mind. Have fun with them.

NASCAR is like the school disciplinarian. Those that get caught, or are fans of those that get caught, are not going to admire NASCAR. I was so relieved when the 36 was finally caught. That car had way too much power for waaaaaaaaay too long. The 7NY had something juiced. The best Tour regulars couldn't keep up with it. It was about time that it was thoroughly inspected. NASCAR harms itself when this is not stopped immediately. NASCAR has to go after this aggressively. If they don't, they look like part of the problem. NWMT rules enforcement has been much better this year. There is parity (aka: rules compliance) and far less stupid wrecking. It only takes one bad apple to ruin the barrel. If NASCAR doesn't enforce the rules, the product suffers.

As far as other NWMT teams or NASCAR people reading here, that's for sure. They are big people that know whiners can't be helped, and they don't care about the whiners. You are never going to satisfy all people all the time.

It's the bellicose posting that's perceived as problematic. It's really entertaining. When the 36 had the big carb, that car ran away from the field and ruined the races, and that's bad for the Tour. When the 7NY had the leaky intake, it ran away from the field and ruined the races, and that's bad for the Tour. But the loyal fans of the 36 and 7NY, took to the keyboards and claimed conspiracy, would have won no matter what, greatest driver, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Those people are pure entertainment. They try to cause a distraction, diversion, insinuation, innuendo while trying to hide the facts. It is hilarious. What they are really doing is bringing more attention to what they want to go away. Give them all the attention and exposure they don't want. These people are staunch advocates. Nothing can be done to "fix" this. Just have fun with it. It's a gift that keeps on giving. It's really funny when these advocates try to put themselves in an offensive posture, or they try to look like an innocent victim when they are caught. Have fun with this.

The advocates are just going to try to find a new approach to get over. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Oh yeah, one of my favorites is when these advocates accuse someone who is objective of being negative. That is so rich.

It goes like this:

Objective Person/Sanctioning Body: Car X was caught with an oversize engine, high compression and an oversize carburetor.

Fan of Car X: You are so negative. You are a hater. The driver of car X is so great he doesn't need to cheat. It's a conspiracy.

Look familiar??? It's all too familiar. It is the ultimate in selfishness. The fan is also guilty by association with the cheater, so they have to go on the offensive defensive. It just mushrooms. It is entertaining. They do it to themselves willingly, and over and over. Don't let yourself be bullied.

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those that do evil, but because of those that look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein

This last event at Loudon was very good. There was racing, cars passing and most of all, competition. The race was not a foregone conclusion long before the checkered flag.

As far as the start line and cone situation with the Masse/NSWMT race, there is no problem to address or fix. Just follow the rules and procedures that have been in place.



Finally someone else see's the light too, I have really stopped posting on here because a lot of the convo's on here are worse than high school girl gossip, with all this he said she said bickering...it's a forum open to opinion but with the constant complaining it gets annoying and more importantly with WMT PR and other's in the media looking they could easily get discouraged. What would happen if TBR or Mr. Garbarino happened to get on here and look at some of this and see the reactions of people nit picking a shade of color, perhaps they would say f*** it and not do another tribute car for the next modified driver to get inducted. Like Sluggo said the survival of the series depends greatly on the support and all i ever see on here is negative negative negative and then everyone complains when something isn't being done. Instead of bashing, offer some input and maybe it'll happen, perhaps like my suggestion of the restart cone at Thompson, maybe to avoid this controversy paint a line across the track for all to see, little suggestions like that can help out more than calling someone out on stuff...jmho...but for now i'll sit back and watch the cat fights

[KChez]

Getting back to the topic of tribute cars, here is mine. No, it's not a full blown modified (no way could I fund that!) but an asphalt style modified microstock. Pretty much all the cars in this series are styled after dirt cars, but for years I always wanted an asphalt style car. Started designing it about five years ago, made many refinements to get it to fit in the parameters of the rules, scale models, full size cardboard mock-ups, money setbacks, etc., but finally got it on the track this year. It still needs some tweaking and a proper windshield, but it came out pretty cool. But, WAY before it was completed, I already knew what the paint scheme would be.

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[Precision Auto]

Modified “fans” (a lot of them it seems) really are the biggest bunch of whiners. My god, nothing anyone does is good enough because it isn’t the way you would have done it. The difference is, they did something to honor and show their respect for Richie. Your way of honoring him is to whine about what they did, or haven’t done. Funny I don’t remember Richie whining about anything, he went out and did something. Come on folks, the Garbarino and Boehler teams changed the traditional paint schemes, that have been their colors for ever, to honor one of their biggest competitors and it wasn’t good enough for you. Pretty sad! Thanks to them and to Tommy Baldwin for putting the effort out to honor Richie and Lenny. Thanks also to those that posted positive posts here also. I thought all 4 cars were pretty neat too. I am looking forward to seeing what better the complainers come up with to do to honor Richie, their way. How about going to the track and support the modified tour? (yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going because it costs too much to get in, the car counts are too low, they don’t run heats, the races are too long, the races are too short, the officals don’t make the calls the way you want, etc., etc.) Get out there and support your local track now, they may not be there much longer (I’d love to be wrong on that one). And…thank the people who are doing something to preserve the history and honor the heroes of the modifieds. It may not be long before all our conversations about the modified tour, or modifieds in general are preceded by the words “remember when”.



Howie: Ditto to what you said.............

[Sluggo44]

Getting back to the topic of tribute cars, here is mine. No, it's not a full blown modified (no way could I fund that!) but an asphalt style modified microstock. Pretty much all the cars in this series are styled after dirt cars, but for years I always wanted an asphalt style car. Started designing it about five years ago, made many refinements to get it to fit in the parameters of the rules, scale models, full size cardboard mock-ups, money setbacks, etc., but finally got it on the track this year. It still needs some tweaking and a proper windshield, but it came out pretty cool. But, WAY before it was completed, I already knew what the paint scheme would be.

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Nice ride. My dad had a microstock that he ran part time at Poughkipsee(spelling?) Your right about the cost or running a full size car. My hats off to those who go out there and continue to run for the love of the sport.

[JWfor8x]

Getting back to the topic of tribute cars, here is mine. No, it's not a full blown modified (no way could I fund that!) but an asphalt style modified microstock. Pretty much all the cars in this series are styled after dirt cars, but for years I always wanted an asphalt style car. Started designing it about five years ago, made many refinements to get it to fit in the parameters of the rules, scale models, full size cardboard mock-ups, money setbacks, etc., but finally got it on the track this year. It still needs some tweaking and a proper windshield, but it came out pretty cool. But, WAY before it was completed, I already knew what the paint scheme would be.

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That is really cool!

[MOD JUNKIE]

This tribute to the Rapid Roman was awsome...PERIOD!