Willard Bodkins of Winfield, Kansas is shown here in a Ford sedan he drove to victory in the B feature on August 30, 1950 at the Cowley County Fairgrounds at Winfield, Kansas.
The car actually looked like this when Bodkins won that B feature. Joe Collins had wrecked it a few times at Cejay Stadium in Wichita, Kansas (see below) and Bodkins had to get it running again again before he could race it at Winfield.
Photographs from the Willard Bodkins collection
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