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DANBURY RACEARENA REUNION 2017 DRIVERS
Last year, Stockwell arrived before the annual gathering of drivers from the defunct association and stayed as the organizers cleaned up, chatting with old friends and admirers. “There were very few people that did not like him,” said Dave Morehouse, president of the Southern New York Racing Association reunion committee. WOODBURY – Ask any fan of the Danbury Fair Racearena who their favorite driver was, and the short odds would favor Charles “Chick” Stockwell. A lightning strike sparked a fire which destroyed the buildings Tuesday. Chick Stockwell speaks with friend Anita Canfield while other friends and relatives pick through the charred remains of his house and barn. He was 85.Republican-American archive photos Chick Stockwell watches friends and relatives pick through the charred remnants of his house and barn Wednesday, after lightning triggered a fire Tuesday night. Bazinet Republican-American Harold Burdick of Danielson takes a photo of one of Chick Stockwell’s former racing cars at a benefit in 2008. The event was at Tom Stockwell’s Woodbury home.
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The racing legend lost most of his racing memorabilia in a fire earlier this year. Bazinet Republican-American Patrick Macdonald, of Middlebury, looks at of one of Chick Stockwell’s restored former race cars at a benefit cookout in Stockwell’s honor. From left- Tom Stockwell, Chick’s son, Russ Truelove, of Waterbury, who raced NASCAR on the sand in Daytona in the 50s, and John Lindberg, of Woodbury, talk during a benefit cookout in honor of racing legend Chick Stockwell who lost most of his racing memorabilia in a fire earlier this year.