Mobile, Alabama’s Buddy Bielarski and his nephew Rick Crawford are coming to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum on Thursday, September 3, for a special reception featuring Buddy’s newly-restored southern supermodified number R1. The car, recently restored by Rick Crawford’s Circle Bar Racing team in North Carolina, is best remembered when it was owned by Fred Moore of Pensacola, Florida, and driven by Bill Roynon of Tampa, Florida, on Walter “Skip” Wetjen’s tough Speedway Inc. circuit in the Gulf Coast region of the Deep South in the 1960’s. Buddy, who also drove the R1 car for Fred Moore, and Rick will both be available to sign autographs at the free and open-to-the-public reception in the museum. According to museum curator Tom Schmeh, “We are very excited to have Buddy Bielarski’s winged supermodified on loan for 12 months in the National Sprint Car Museum, as it continues a tradition we started with Ellis Palasini’s car and continued with J.D. Parker’s machine. We have to thank Tony Martin of Pensacola for helping make this happen, as well as Buddy, Rick and the entire Circle Bar Racing team for pitching in and bringing this project to fruition.(Sprint Car Hall of Fame PR) [For more details, visit the Jayski Appearances Page.](8-24-2009)
