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07/12/2012
Ted Christopher Donates Helmet
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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.
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06/24/2012
Meet Ron Bouchard at NHMS on July 14
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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.
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06/20/2012
Latest Museum News
![Tony Stewart Helmet Donation](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
06/07/2012
Tony Stewart Helmet Donation
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![FOX TV Sports and Michael Waltrip Racing Support the North East Motor Sports Museum](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
06/05/2012
FOX TV Sports and Michael Waltrip Racing Support the North East Motor Sports Museum
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.
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![North East Motor Sports Museum Update](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
05/31/2012
North East Motor Sports Museum Update
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.
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05/28/2012
Restoring Billy Murphy's #8
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Although the attached photo looks as if it might have been taken in the 1960s, in fact it is quite current. The shot is of Jim Martel’s garage and the car is the Billy Murphy #8 which Jim is restoring. The car is owned by NEMS Museum Board Members Pete vonSneidern and Dick Berggren and is being restored by Martel. It won dozens of feature events and was driven by more than a dozen brave men during the golden age of supermodifi
![Special Thanks to the Maine Vintage Race Car Association!](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
05/15/2012
Special Thanks to the Maine Vintage Race Car Association!
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The Maine Vintage Race Car Association’s representative, Beech Ridge Speedway promoter Andy Cusack, presented the Racing History Preservation Group with a $1,000 donation in support of the Group’s planned motorsports museum. Shown receiving the check is Dick Berggren, the Group’s president who said the Maine Vintage’s support of the project is thoroughly appreciated.
![MUSEUM UPDATE - MAY 1, 2012](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
05/01/2012
MUSEUM UPDATE - MAY 1, 2012
Please welcome new members Harry Johnson Jr., Ken Schena (a former NESMRA supermodified driver), Russ and Darlene Nutting (Russ is a NEAR Hall of Fame member), Ric Mariscal (who is already a Board member), Bucky Swiniarski, Lloyd Hutchins Jr (also a Board member), Paul Zampieri, Ron Bouchard (a NEAR Hall of Fame member and a RHPG Board member who joined at the Platinum level), Dave Coutermarsh (a member of the Maine Hall of Fame), and Marvin Galarneau all of whom joined in April.
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04/30/2012
VISIT NEMSM IN GREAT BARRINGTON, MA THURSDAY, MAY 3
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04/30/2012
NEMSM IN MYSTIC, CT SATURDAY, MAY 5
![SKIP AMBROSE DONATES MEMORABILIA](templates/default/images/article-default.jpg)
04/16/2012
SKIP AMBROSE DONATES MEMORABILIA
We gratefully acknowledge New Hampshire’s Skip Ambrose for his contribution to the Museum of his collection of Stock Car Racing and Speedway Illustrated magazines. Our library is in need of more such contributions of racing magazines.
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