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Over Labor Day weekend, Racing History Preservation Group board members Mark Hann (left), Mark’s son Mike (center), Paul Giblin (right) and Dick Berggren (who took the photo) exhibited at Lime Rock Park’s annual vintage meet. The sports car crowd in attendance expressed support for the new racing museum to be built at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

John Knox (pictured) owns one of the most important vintage New England drag race cars, the Country Girl Funny Car that was driven by his wife Rodalyn. John has offered to loan the car to the Museum with a potential outright donation down the road. The car is virtually all original including the body, chassis and chrome.

The Sports Car Club of New Hampshire held its monthly meeting on Friday evening, August 10 at Ray Boissoneau’s race shop in Concord, NH. At the meeting, the group agreed to made a donation to the North East Motor Sports Museum of $1,700.00 - $1,500 for a Platinum membership and another $200 to purchase a brick.

91-year old Shany Lorenzet was track photographer at Stafford Springs, Waterford and Riverside Speedways from the day those three tracks began auto racing. Lorenzet has donated that camera to the museum to go along with hundreds of his negatives from the three tracks that he took which have been pledged to the Museum’s library.

Reggie Ruggiero was one of the top NASCAR Modified drivers in the Northeast during a very long career. He has offered an abundance of trophies and helmets for display at the North East Motor Sports Museum and provided the first load in late July. Included were 6 helmets and 7 trophies, all we could carry. The trophies included his Race of Champions Pocono win in 1988, a 1993 NHMS Modified win, the 1979 Riverside Park c

Mike Christopher shows his support of the new North East Motor Sports Museum project by putting a one-off decal on the nose of his modified.

Ted Christopher has shown his support of the North East Motor Sports Museum with the donation of one of his helmets work during multiple race wins. Ted, a winner of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Championship as well as the Whelen Modified Tour Championship, offered the helmet one day before he won again at Stafford. He has won more races at that track than any driver in history.

Meet Board Member Ron Bouchard at the North East Motor Sports Museum display at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, July 14. The display will be in the midway opposite the tunnel that leads to and from the infield. Bouchard’s appearance will be during the one-hour before the modified race and the one-hour after the modified race which is set to begin at 1pm.

Please welcome new members Artie Kempner, Beaver Dragon, Matthew Tobey, Louis DeLena, Chris Sullivan, Jacqueline Smith, Jonathan Evans, Scott Martin, Megan McGowen, Drew Young, Pete Zanardi, Arthur Poslususny, Carl Silva, Reggie Lang Jr., Mike Smeriglio III, John Nericcio, Robert J. Harrington, Jim Harrington, Ed Witkum, Peter Penfield, Peter Kapolka, Jeff Horn, Charlotte Fadden and Tom Elliman.

The North East Motor Sports Museum has received its first helmet donation. The helmet was worn by Tony Stewart during the 2011 season and was presented by Stewart to Dick Berggren on behalf of the museum at the 2012 Prelude to the Dream event at Eldora Speedway.

As a going-away present for pit road announcer Dick Berggren, FOX Sports has promised a $10,000 donation to the museum. A large check facsimile was presented to Berggren at a party held on the night before his final broadcast on the network, the June race at Dover. At that function, Michael Waltrip announced that his company, Michael Waltrip Racing, would match the FOX money with an additional $10,000 donation.

Welcome new members Daniel Scully, Albert Brandy, Leon Swiniarski, Paul Zampieri, Russ and Darlene Nutting, Russ LeDuke, Robert & Sally Worthington, Mike & Julie Stefanik, Russ Truelove, Kenneth Quinney, Ed Duncan and Martin LaVoie.

We are grateful to the Maine Vintage Race Car Association for its show of support by way of a check for $1,000. The check was hand delivered by Andy Cusack at the Beech Ridge Speedway.