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Article: Remembering Raceway Park
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- SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2009
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They remembered grand old Raceway Park on Saturday night at Illiana Speedway - ironically on what would have been late Raceway owner Pete Jenin's 92nd birthday. And let me tell you something. It was really something. Bob Pronger's orange-and-black No. 3, Ray Young's beautiful No. 99 Studebaker and the famous red No. 77 of Bud Koehler all rode again in a vintage car race sponsored by longtime Chicagoland competitor Bill McEnery. The event honored the history of the Blue Island quarter-mile asphalt oval, which hosted racing from 1938 through 2000. The Pronger car was a chassis driven for several seasons by the late Jerry Kemperman. We all got a real kick out of it when the driver of No. 3, ...
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