Glen Henry "Bud" Webster
1928 - 1956

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster was a regular competitor in the stock car races run on the Winfield race track in the 1950s.  He is pictured above with the 1932 Ford five-window-coupe that he drove for Joe Collins in 1953 - Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster with the Lawrence Brooks owned “8-Ball” Ford coupe – Gary Virden photo from the Mike McCoy collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster, left, with brother-in-law and car builder, Willard Bodkins.  This car was a 1934 Ford coupe and the photo was taken on Joe Collins' used car lot on North Main Street in Winfiield, Kansas where Webster and Bodkins both worked as salesmen – Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster with his wife, Bell, on Joe Collins' used car lot on North Main Street in Winfield, Kansas - Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster (right) with a 1937 Ford stock car.  This was just one of the may cars Webster raced.

Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

Standing, left to right in front of Joe Collins’ Western Motors on North Main Street in Winfield, Kansas are Joe Collins, Willard Bodkins, and Bud Webster.  That is 4 year-old Bill Collins seated in his miniature racer in front in 1951 – Bill Collins collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     ABOVE LEFT:  Bud Webster with the "8 ball" Hudson at Joe Collins' place in Winfield, Kansas.  Click your mouse on that photo to see another of this Hudson on the Winfield racetrack – Gary Virden collection

     ABOVE RIGHT:  Bud Webster with a 1932 Chevrolet three window coupe 6-cylinder that he drove in 1955 for Ray Ash of Wellington, Kansas.  A. J. Shepherd of Wichita, Kansas won a heat race at Winfield in this car on Memorial Day, 1956 and Jim McAmis, also of Wichita, won the last race ever run at Wichita's Cejay Stadium in this car - Gary Virden collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster with the black "8 Ball" Hudson sedan that he drove for Lawrence Brooks of Arkansas City, Kansas.  Webster only had sight in his left eye.  Click your mouse on the photo above to see a photograph of Bud with a Ford coupe that he occasionally drove for Brooks - Gary Virden collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster, left, with brother-in-law and car builder, Willard Bodkins, at the Cowley County Fairgrounds in Winfield, Kansas – Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster with a 1932 Hudson 4-door sedan stock car that he drove for owner Joe Collins – Willard Bodkins collection

 

 

 

 

Bud Webster is buried in the Browns Grove Cemetery at Burdett, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

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