Old Salt
Fred talks to a friend as he warms up his much-traveled-and-raced ’29 at Santa Ana in 1951. “We westside guys ran Santa Ana in the beginning,” he says. “When they opened Saugus, which was closer, we started going there. Lou Baney [Saugus promoter] started the cash payout—only it wasn’t cash. He gave you a $25 war bond. If you knew him, he wrote you a check for $18.75.”
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