Vintage Dirt Track
Hot Rods
of Central Kansas
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Buddy Quick in car #44 at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Bill Ratcliffe of Hutchinson, Kansas at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas - c1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Noel "Shorty" Jones startled the flagman at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1949  - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Bob Thorne leading Bill Everhart at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1950  - Jim Edwares photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Don Thornton at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Bob Thorne at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Bob Thorne at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Al White and Ted Kammerer co-owned this track hot rod in 1949 - Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Hi Mesel at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Red Taylor, left foreground; Jerry Shumaker, center; and Shorty Jones at right at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Chet Clark of Woodward, Oklahoma in a Chrysler at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

#1 Claude Ash, #5 Charlie Lutkie, and #26 Noel "Shorty" Jones at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Charlie Lutkie jumping back onto the 1/5 mile race track at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - Jim Edwards photo from the Paul & Opal Kammerer collection

Noel "Shorty" Jones, left, at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1948 - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Bill Perkins' last drive in Earl Mill's track hot rod after hitting the wall at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949.  Lyle Baker at far left, Frank Lies is fifth from left behind female medical tech, Bob Shucke to female’s left, Norvin ____ in sunglasses next to Shucke, Carrol Forrest in dark shirt behind the hot rod, Ted Vogin in hat and sunglasses looking at camera, and Troy Routh in cap and sunglasses - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Claude Ash crawls from Joe Collins' #4 at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1948 - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Willard Bodkins with the track hot rod he built for Joe Collins in 1948 - Bill Collins collection

Claude Ash, right, with a track hot rod he drove for Bud Titus at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1950 - Bill Collins collection

Rescuing an unconsious Claude Ash after he flipped on the front straightaway at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949.  That is Frank Lies in the striped shirt inside the car with Ash - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Rescuing driver Claude Ash at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1948 - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1948 - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Flipping is Claude Ash in a Melvin Widup owned hot rod at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949.  Car #2 passing by in the foreground was owned by John Frost and driven by Bub McHenry.  The photo three above this one shows Ash being resqued after this accident - Jim Edwards photo from the Bill Collins collection

Don Thornton drove this track hot rod at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas c1950 - John Bush collection

#28 Art Eiverts at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1948 - Loretta Cox collection

This Crosley track hot rod #85 driven by George Hensley, raced the full sized hot rods at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1949 - 1949 program from Cejay Stadium om Wichita, Kansas from the collection of Bill Collins

Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1948 - 1949 program from Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas from the collection of Bill Collins

Hi Mesel at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1948 - Jim Edwards photo

Jim Roper in Earl Mills' track hot rod at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1947 - 1949 program from CJjay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas from the collection of Bill Collins

The car in the middle of this wreck was #13 driven by Frank Lies.  The other two drivers involved have been identified as Vernon Stiles and a Mr. Muller but there is no indication as to which was which.  Lies was lapping car #21 and they tangled.  The car at right came along from behind and plowed into the wreckage.  Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas on October 26, 1947 - Lies collection

Red Taylor of Chapman, Kansas at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas in 1948 - 1949 program from Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas from the collection of Bill Collins

Ricketts Brothers Chevrolet hot rod, Winona, Kansas c1949 - Cloyd Ricketts collection