Let’s goback to the year of 1965

Let’s goback to the year of 1965; this season will prove to be pivotal in the future of DBR.  Delmer Delo and Bud Doll ran the season with a 1955 Chevy powered at times by a Pontiac V-8; reliability was a serious issue and other than just show-up and try to race nothing serious happened that would give a glimpse of what was just over the horizon.

Charlie Hardbarger drove the car for them and other than a couple good weeks they could hardly have been considered a contender.

Possibly the best remembered event of the summer of 1965 was the Sunday at Pennsboro that Charlie ran off  turn three and landed near the city sewage pond.  That was not a good day!

The summer of 1965 was also darkened by the accident of Butch Markle at Pennsboro in the late summer.  It was my first time attending a race at Pennsboro Speedway.  My brother, who was stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson Arizona was home on leave and took me to the Speedway on that eventful day, I have black and white pictures of the accident.  I had no idea that within the next six months I would become a part of the history.

At the end of the 19675 season Delmer and Bud decided that they needed to do something radical to get more competitive.  The seeds of success were planted that winter and I guess you could say the rest is history.