Jack Rolland Shipman

1933 – 2013

Jack Shipman of Wichita, Kansas with his 1955 Chevrolet semi-late model stock car early in the year of 1974.  This was Jack's first Chevrolet race car and it was driven by Bob Lawrence - Gary Hyde photo

Leonard Franklin Johnson

1927 – 2000

Leonard Johnson standing beside Jack Shipman’s 1955 Chevrolet semi-late model stock car before it was painted in 1974.  Leonard helped out as a mechanic, welder and pit crewman on more than a half-dozen stock cars that belonged to various people in his neighborhood in south Wichita, Kansas - Gary Hyde photo