Tom Dollmeyer (147), on a Honda Interceptor, leads Keith Truesdell and Larry Cohee (413) in a WERA sprint race at Grattan Raceway in May of 1984. (Larry Lawrence photo)
Dollmeyer leads at Grattan (1984)
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Whos the expert coming up?
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Can’t quite tell who the expert is.
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Looks like Michigan – grey
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JT
It may have even been drizzling.
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Truesdell is on an SR500, so he’s doing pretty well keeping up with what looks like a VF750, not a 500. That’s the left coming onto the main straight at Grattan.
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Good eye guys. That is a 750 Interceptor. It didn’t make sense to me though because of the other bikes in the class. This could have been practice for all I know.
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Well, back then, we could run a D prod or super, all the way up to A, and still be competetive at a track like Grattan. Now you need a specific bike for every class. Heck, Lance David used to run his TT500(probably more like 650), as high as B super, and win the class. I’m pretty sure that expert in the back is a VF500, but I can’t tell who it is. Doug Gere ran one in ’84, but he still had a novice plate. Maybe Jim Kemp? Sure is fun trying to figure it out…
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How about Richard Blanton?
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I thought he was a 3 digit number, and that looks like a 2 digit. Geez, Larry. Couldn’t you get a higher dpi camera back then?
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Kevin
I’ll have you know that was the best camera system money could buy (at Sears). 🙂
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