Grew up in San Jose & went to the saturday night races at the San Jose Speedway. In those days, the late 1950s-60s, Tully Road "ended' and it wa sjust a dirt road: one "lane" going to the parkingarea & the other "lane" leaving the the racetrack. I had 4older brothers-in-law and all were hotrodders of the 50s. One brother in law, Bob Rutgers, was a mechanic for Bill Scott (the #5 checkerboardcar) who ended up racing against the 2nd team, most famous was Carmel Fernandez. I'm looking for any old photosgraphs of San Jose Speedway racing from the 1950s & 1960s, please.

Do you have any history of the 1st African american driver at San Jose Speedway. It was Alvin Cooks, my uncle. He and my Father would always bring us to the track. We were actually the only African American family at the track in the early 1970's. We were good friends with Sargent's and Kaedings.

from another race track brat---my dad Wild Bill Hayley raced at Alviso and San Jose---I am in town researching old

Just received your book ,as a birthday gift. What a great surprise! A second surprise was seeing a picture of one of my cousin's Johnny Neece with his car and driver rod spencer. I also noticed you show the 11x car being driven by scott ludorff; but no mention of the car owner who I believe is bill schwartz who has been a friend for the last 60 years.

great job dennis cant wait to read this book, my brother was roland wlodykas crew cheif at the old speedway before going winston cup racing with dale earnhart