title: Modified Stock Car Racing of the '60s and '70s: An Illustrated History Featuring the Drivers, Cars, and Tracks of the No (A Photo Gallery)
author:  Steve Kennedy 
description: The author, Steven Kennedy, grew up in Plainville, CT, in the 1960s. Plainville was home to the Plainville Stadium, a quarter mile flat asphalt track that featured modifieds as the main division. Kennedy began attending races with his dad in 1970, and began shooting photos later that year with a Kodak Brownie instamatic box camera. He also began the habit of collecting photos the same year, buying photos from the track photographer Phil Hoyt. Kennedy eventually got his first 35 mm camera in 1973, and began traveling to other Connecticut race tracks that featured the modifieds, like Thompson and Stafford Speedways. He began writing for the magazine Prospeed Revue during that time, then took a job at the Waterford Speedbowl as the track photographer, a position he held until 1982, when he began a career as a professional artist. He still shoots at the Waterford Speedbowl for Racedog photography?s Keith Cyr and the track, and also contributes to the NJ based weekly racing paper Area Auto Racing News. Over the years he?s freelanced to many racing publications such as Trackside, Shorttrack and New England Speedway Scene.
zlib_text: Million Dollar Ferrari Sports Cars to Beat-Up Old Ford Trucks, Classic
  Mopar Hot Rods to Innovative Chevy Rat Rods, Vintage Trans Am Racing
  to Cars and Coffee Meetings
  Classic Car Stories
  By Isaiah Cox
  
  Copyright 2016
  Isaiah Cox
  
  Table of Contents (chapter titles are clickable)
  What’s the Deal With Vintage Racing?
  S.O.B. Racing - Budget Vintage Racing
  Portland Swap Meet... wait no... PIR Auto Swap
  1st Week With An MGA
  Thoughts on Jerome AZ, Hillclimb Racing & Changing Culture
  Budget 1957 MGA Progress
  Portland Historic Races
  History Repeats Itself, Broke With a 1950s Car
  How To Not Be Bored At Car Shows
  The MGA is Legal and Racing Season is Starting!
  First Rally for the MGA!
  The All British Field Meet
  1st Autocross Races!
  Is the Car Art?
  Rallycross!
  Cars and Coffee
  My Top Six
  Now is the Winter of my Discontent
  10 Ugly Classic Cars, and Why We Think They Look Awesome Regardless
  Go-Karts and Soapbox Derby Racing, or Some Things Never Change
  Family Cars
  Track Day
  Go Racing!!!
  Just Say No T