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6/28/02: July 6, 1968 – Roger Boas of Fairport, N.Y., won the 30-lap Modified feature at Lancaster Speedway on Saturday, July 6, before 5,680 Buffalo-area fans.
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7/01/02: July 20, 1968 - Defending Lancaster Speedway Modified champion Chuck Boos of Lewiston scored a hat trick by winning his 10-lap heat race, the regular 30-lap feature and then a 12-lap team race (with teammates Bill Rafter, Roger Treichler and Kenny Meahl) before 6,120 Buffalo-area fans.
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7/10/02: July 27, 1968 - Chuck Boos of Lewiston, N.Y., collected promoter Ed Serwacki’s $250 bonus for winning back-to-back Saturday night Modified victories at Lancaster Speedway.
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7/17/02: August 9, 1968 - The humid summer of 1968 had hit its midpoint and 6,832 fans packed Lancaster Speedway's wooden bleachers to watch their hometown heroes slug it out on the paved half mile oval near Buffalo, N.Y.
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7/24/02: August 14, 1971 - A sellout crowd of 7,500 jammed Lancaster Speedway's grandstands on Burn Treatment Center Night and saw Richie Evans win the 30-lap Modified feature, which also was a Trenton Qualifier.
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7/31/02: August 21, 1971 - After winning on Burn Treatment Center Night on August 14, Richie Evans of Rome, N.Y., went two-for-two at Lancaster by winning the 30-lap Modified feature.  The win was Evans' fifth overall at Lancaster for the 1971 season.  And like the week before, Evans took the win from Rochester invader Dick Emerson.
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8/06/02: August 28, 1971 - By their own admission, Lancaster Speedway's owners labeled it, "The race that should have been called."  One of the smallest crowds of the season turned out for Lancaster's annual 100-lap Race of Champions Qualifier on a rainy Saturday night in Buffalo.
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9/04/02: Sept. 2, 1972 - Thirty years ago this week....I remember it well.  The end of the Golden Age of stock car racing at Lancaster Speedway was heralded on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1972 – the final regular show of the track’s ’72 campaign.  It was the last time fans would see traditional Modifieds, ‘60s-era Late Models and Mini-Stocks race together on the same card.
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9/18/02: Sept. 10, 1972 - A two-day race weekend capped Lancaster Speedway's 1972 season as the half-mile oval near Buffalo played host to twin 200-lap features for Modifieds and Late Model Sportsman cars.
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9/25/02: LANCASTER, NY (Saturday, May 7, 1977) – Merv Treichler returned to Lancaster Speedway after a year off and won the opening night 40-lap Modified feature. 
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10/02/02: (September 11-12, 1970) – The weekend began on Friday night at Fulton (N.Y.) Raceway with races for Modifieds, Limited Sportsman and Late Models.
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10/09/02: (July 11-12, 1969) – Bill Rafter of Niagara Falls, N.Y., enjoyed a rich weekend by winning at Canada's Cayuga Speedway on Friday night and Lancaster Speedway near Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday.  For the former NASCAR Grand National driver, the victories were two-in-a-row at both tracks.
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10/16/02: (September 11-12, 1970) - The weekend began on Friday night at Fulton (N.Y.) Raceway with races for Modifieds, Limited Sportsman and Late Models.
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10/23/02: (Sept. 15, 1973) - The 1973 Lancaster Speedway season came to a close on Sunday, Sept. 16, as Rochester-based Gallery of Homes sponsored the Gallery 200 for Modifieds.  An announced crowd of 3,800 was on hand to see a handful of invaders take on Lancaster's local drivers.
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11/13/02: (Friday, July 31 to Sunday, August 2, 1970) – Mid-summer 1970 in western New York was humid, or "muggy" as they say in the Queen City.  The heat and humidity can cause strange occurrences at race tracks, and this sticky weekend was not exempt.
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03/09/03: (Remembering Billy Colton)  I was preparing to climb atop my soapbox, ready to preach my "let's-honor-'em-while-they're-still-around-to-enjoy-it" sermon.  I write mostly stories about races that took place 30 years ago, and many of the men who took part in those speed contests are no longer with us.
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