Sixth Photo: Arnie Ainsworth

Sixth Photo: Arnie Ainsworth

Top Photo:

Chuck records a win, and his family and the entire Tremont bunch join him in victory lane.

Second Photo:

A personal favorite for Chuck’s son, Bob, here Chuck poses next to his famous Casper 5 Limited Sportsman, a car in which he captured the 1967 and 68 point championships at Lebanon Valley with. 

Third Photo:

One of 10 victories on the season for Chuck Ely in the Casper 5 at Lebanon Valley.  Chuck is congratulated by Limited Sportsman hot shoe in his own right Bob Gaskill, now famous of Bob’s Camper and RV in Hancock Massachusetts.

The Colonial Sunoco and Panther snowmobile dealership out of Williamstown, MA you see lettered on the car is that of Gaskills’, who eventually aided Ely into getting his own snowmobile dealership a few years later.

Fourth & Fifth Photos:

Bobby Ely shared a couple of pictures of his late father and a very young Ken Tremont Sr. from the first year the duo set out to set the racing world on fire.  Ken was the last car owner Chuck would drive for until his retirement following the 1981 campaign at LV.  Young Ken went on in 1982 as the solo pilot for Tremont Racing, garnering his first LV triumph and points championship along the way.

Sixth Photo:

Chuck Ely on the gas through turns 3 and 4 at Syracuse in the Tremont 115.

See Chuck in the Mini Stock

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