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EPM SHOWCARS 

SPECIAL EDITION 

JULY 2022 

MAGAZINE 

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INTRODUCTION 

Welcome to our thirteenth issue of EPM 

Showcars Magazine! 

My Partner Yvonne and I are so pleased 

at how well our issues have done this year 

and are very excited about this latest Special 

Edition issue. 

We would like to thank all of the wonderful 

car owners, advertisers, sponsors 

and people that have been so generous 

with their time and prize possessions in 

helping us to create this publication. 

I would like to give a special thank you 

to the following people without whom this 

edition of Showcars magazine would not 

have been possible. Car Owners: of Show 

Me Vintage Racing Club and it’s affiliates. 

To my article writer Yvonne Young. 

Thank you once again for your enthusiasm, 

attention to detail, your dedication and 

hard work. 

To our fans, thanks for all of your support 

by viewing our publication online as 

well as purchasing copies of our magazine. 

It is our sincere hope that you will enjoy 

viewing and reading about these beautiful 

vehicles as much as we did bringing them 

together for you in this magazine. 

Elton Hughes. 

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Editor 

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Show Me Vintage Racing Club Officers: 

President: Mickey Fleehart 

Vice President: Daniel Schmidt II 

Secretary & Promotions: Brad Barlow 

Treasurer: Christine Fleehart 

Technical & Repair: Dan Schmidt 

WWW.SMVR.NET 

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SMVR CLUB MEMBERS 

Show Me Vintage Racing was started with a few country boys that enjoyed 

playing in the dirt! 

Mickey Fleethart and Jim Cox were both racing other class cars in 2001, 

when they came up with the idea to start a club where they raced vintage cars. 

The two of them decided to go to several different tracks to see if and who they 

could recruit to race the vintage cars. The SMVR Club was actually formed in 

the year of 2002 with about 7 members. Ever since then it has grown to be 

about 25 to 30 members. The members consist of men and women. 

Vintage Street stock is a class of racing whose primary goal is to have fun 

while enjoying the experience of a lifetime with friends and family! Sure there is 

some competitiveness during the races, but in the end it is all for fun! The club 

always comes together to help one another if break downs happen and repairs 

are needed. When you are around this group of men and woman you are sure to 

have a good time and your cheeks will hurt from all of the smiling that you will 

be doing. This is definitely a fun class to watch racing at the track. 

There are certain specs for racing the Vintage street stock class, but most 

of the cars have similar engines with about the same horsepower and all of the 

cars have a full safety roll cage. 

Check out this club on FB @ Show Me Vintage Racing 

and SMVR.net 

#1 Rodney Ashworth-Clinton, MO 

1927 Ford Model T 

#1-A Rodney Ashworth-Clinton, MO 

1936 Chevy Sedan 

#2 Jeff Siler- Kansas City, KS 

1936 Chevy Coupe 

#2D Brandon Jordan- Pineville, MO 

1941 Ford Coupe 

#5 Ed Neil- Sibley, MO 

1954 Studabaker 

#6 Daimen Clevenger- Parkville, MO 


#7 Mickey Fleehart 


#8 Rocky Rhodes- Independence, MO 


#08 Dan Schmidt- Blue Springs, MO 


#9 Gary Joslin- Blue Springs, MO 


#09D Chad Eickleberry-Warrensburg, MO 

1969 Chevelle 

#24 Elmer Gerloff- Beloit, WI 

1957 Chevy Belair 

#25 Duslin Anderson- ADA, OK 

1928 Ford Model A 

#27 Danny Lorton- Wheatland, MO 


#31 Steve Rock- Independence, MO 

1956 Ford Fairlane 

#32 Bob Werkmeister- Omaha, NE 


#42 Rob Brash- Richmond, MO 

1968 Camaro 

#44 Terry Price- Johnson, NE 


#45 Daniel Schmidt II- Independence, MO 

1969 Chevelle 

#48 Kevin Anderson- TableRock, NE 


#53 Andy Wiles- Kansas City, KS 

1951 Studabaker 

#54 Larry Waters- Kansas City, KS 

1954 Ford 

#58 Beth Martin- Independence, MO 

1938 Pontiac Coupe 

#63 John Martin- Independence, MO 


#68 Foxie Summer- Nevada, MO 

1968 Camaro 

#75-2 Jeff Hansen- Blockton, IA 


#81 Tom Charles- Basehor, KS 


#88 Brad Barlow- Lake Tapawingo, MO 

1955 Chevy 

#99 Jim Siewart- Belton, MO 


#99B Jim Barnes- Tongonoxie, KS 

1946 Mercury Monterey 

#113 Jim Thorne- Tongonoxie, KS 

1934 Ford Sedan 



Car owner: Doug Parry #D2/ Driver: Brandon Jordan 


Doug Parry is the proud owner of this 1941 Ford Coupe. He built this car 

in 2003. He was the driver for many years and he still drives it off and on, 

when he is able to. It took Doug about 7 months to build the car to the full 

specs of vintage racing. He wanted to keep the car as original as he could. 

When he drives up North, they like things to be as original as can be. Doug 

has been a member of SMVR since 2001 when the club was established. He 

has several drivers that drive his car when is not able to. Brandon Jordan 

was the driver at the event where we did the photoshoot. He drove Super 

Trucks from 2000 to 2007 and he was the 2004 Champion. His first dirt 

race was the summer of 2021 at I-70 Speedway. 



Car owner: Larry Waters #54 

1954 Ford Mainline 

"Bufford T Justice" 

"In Memory of the Fallen Officers of our Country" 

Larry Waters is the owner of this 1954 Ford Mainline. He bought the truck 

frame in 2019, he and his son started the conversion and modification that 

took them about 7 months to make it into a functioning police car replica 

from the 1950's. He also made sure that the car was to the specifications 

of Vintage racing on a dirt track. Larry started racing with SMVR in 2020. 

The vintage car also has nitrous, so that when he goes to car shows he can 

release some for the spectators. Larry started racing asphalt circle tracks 

in 1994 at I-70 Speedway and Lakeside. In 2000 Lakeside changed to a dirt 

track so he modified his car at that time to race on dirt. He has raced A- 

mods, stock cars and pure stock. 

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Car owner: Gary Joslin #9 


Gary Joslin is the proud owner of this 1941 Ford Coupe. The car itself 

has been cut in half and widened in order for it to fit the chassis and meet 

the modfications needed to race on a dirt track. Gary started racing Super 

Trucks in 1997, up until the track closed in 2008. He has had a total of 

5 trucks at one time. Gary has also sponsored and supported alot of the 

SMVR members throughout the years since he has been with the club. His 

dedication definitely shows as well as his love for the club and racing community. 



Car owner: Elmer Gerloff #24 

1955 Chevy Belair 

Elmer Gerloff is the proud owner of this 1955 Chevy Belair. He started 

racing with his brother Mickey in 1978. They raced 4-cyl cars in 1984 at the 

Rockford, Illinois track and decided to take a break. Then when his brotherin-law 

wanted to race sportsman class, he decided to help him. That's when 

he decided to start racing again, but this time it was Vintage car racing 

with his older brother. This specific car is his newest edition. Gary has been 

racing this car since the 2021 season. 




Car owner: Rocky Rhodes #8 ball 


Rocky Rhodes is the proud owner of this 1940 Chevy Sedan. He bought 

the car in 2017 when he decided to do Vintage Racing with SMVR. The car 

was a stock car so he did the modificaions for it to be ready to race with 

the Vintage Club. When Rocky was a kid he was able to do hot laps in his 

dad's car at the Riverside track. He started racing in 1972 while he was in 

the service. Rocky started off racing mini stock class. He also raced in California 

from 1977 to 1978. When he got back to Missouri, he built a car for 

racing sport compacts and raced it from 2013 to 2016. 



Car owner: Jim Stewart #99 


Jim Stewart is the proud owner of this 1935 Ford Coupe. He decided to 

dedicate this car to his father who raced when he was kid. Jim would go 

with his dad to race since 1972. The blue color and number is is a tribute to 

his dads former car when his dad raced with the number 99. Jim has been 

racing street stock since 1986 at the Lakeside track until it closed. That's 

when he went to I-70 Speedway and raced on the dirt track until the early 

90's, then that track closed. Both Lakeside and I-70 reopened as asphalt 

tracks, so he modified his car to drive on asphalt. He has also raced at various 

tracks over the years, now he is enjoying racing with SMVR on the dirt 

tracks. 


Car owner: Allen Guthrie #51 

1968 Ford Falcon 

Allen Guthrie is the proud owner of this 1968 Ford Falcon. He started 

racing in 1968 in Illinois. He has raced many different classifications, stock, 

modified, sprint, late model, 4-cyl and now vintage. Allen started racing 

the vintage class in 2012 and joined SMVR in 2013 to represent the Vintage 

class. He has a few cars that he races or has drivers race at the track. Allen 

has been driving the #51 car since 2020. 




Car owner: Louie and Daimon Clevenger #6 


Louie and Damon are the proud owners of this 1939 Chevy Sedan. Louie 

and his brother have been racing since 1970. They raced modified street and 

of course Vintage. Damon has been racing since 1995. They joined SMVR 

in 2011. All of the members really appreciate the friends and family atmosphere 

of SMVR. There is friendly competition but all would help one another 

if needed. The sponsor is FASTLANE and is owner operated by the Clevenger 

family, they do their own machine work. 




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Car owner: Dan Schmidt #08 

1941 Ford Business Coupe 

Dan Schmidt is the owner of this 1941 Ford. He bought it in 1999 when it was 

in the process of being a Super Truck, he decided to finish it and raced it from 

1999 to 2008. Dan won 15 races with it as a super truck until the track closed 

in 2008. The truck ended up sitting in a pasture for 10 years. Dan was racing 

another car at the time on circle dirt tracks when he decided on bringing that 

super truck back to life. But then he changed his mind and modified it into a 

Vintage race car instead. In 2017 it took Dan about 6 months to do the modifacations 

to the truck to make it a car and he entered it in World of Wheels 

in 2018. He won First place in his category. He started racing it on the circle 

dirt tracks in 2018 with SMVR. Dan has been racing since he was a teenager 

and has been doing his own modifications since then. He is the main mechanic/ 

tech man that everyone in the SMVR Club goes to, to have things done to their 

cars! Dan and his son-Daniel own a shop called Bow-tie Chop Shop, where 

they perform the work on the members cars when needed. 



Car owner: Emma Martin and Alex Davis #10 

1941 Cadilac 

Emma Martin is the proud owner of this 1941 Cadilac. She has been racing 

since she was 6 years old, racing go-carts to start and then moving on 

to much bigger and faster things to race. Emma and her boyfriend Alex met 

in 2019 when they were both competing, racing sprint cars. They became a 

couple in 2020. Emma's parents both race Vintage race cars and the couple 

always had fun watching her parents race. So they decided to join the fun in 

2021. This was not only because of the SMVR Club atmosphere and fun but 

to also be able to race her parents. When we did this photoshoot it was only 

their second race with the club. 




Car owner: Steve Rock #31 


Steve Rock is the proud owner of this 1956 Ford Fairlane. Steve has been 

racing since he was 16 years old, drag racing on the street. Steve's fatherin-law 

is friends with several of the SMVR members, that's where he started 

asking around if anyone had a car for sale. Louie Clevenger had a car for 

sale. Steve bought the car from him in 2018 and has been racing circle track 

ever since. He did the modification himself to make the car his own, which 

took him about 3 months. 


Car owner: Beth Martin #58 

1941 Pontiac Coupe 

Beth Martin is the proud owner of this 1941 Pontiac Coupe. She has 

always had a love for racing. She use to race go-carts in the 80's. Beth 

decided to get back into racing so she bought this Coupe and had Dan 

Schmidt build the car to the specification for racing with the Vintage racing 

Club SMVR. It took Dan about 4 months to complete and she competed 

in her first race in 2021. Beth really enjoys being a part of SMVR because of 

spending the time with friends and family! 




Car owner: Bob Werkmeister #32W 


Bob Werkmeister is the proud owner of this 1932 Ford Coupe. He has 

been racing for over 40 years. When Bob started, he was racing hobby 

stock, then he raced street stock and went to modified later on. He really 

enjoys racing coupes and has raced them for about 14 years. Bob's twin 

brother is the one who got him in to racing and building street cars. He has 

been with SMVR since 2018. 


Car owner: Kevin & Paula Anderson #48 


Kevin is the proud owner of this 1929 Ford Model A. He started racing 

when he was in high school but had taken a break until 2009. His uncle built 

this car up in Ashland, Nebraska in 2005. He bought the car from his uncle 

in 2012 and started racing it there. Kevin has been racing with SMVR since 

2020 and when they don't have any races in Nebraska, he races with the 

SMVR club. 





Car owner: John Martin #63 


John Martin is the proud owner of this 1940 Ford Coupe. This car was his 

daughters first modified car that she raced. He has bought her a few others 

cars since then for her to race in other classes. His daughter didn't want 

to get rid of the car so when he wanted to start racing in Vintage class they 

did the modifications to it and he began racing it. John has been the tuner 

and mechanic for the past 20 years for his daughter and always watched 

her race, now he has joined in on the fun! He started racing and joined SMVR 

in 2021. 


Car owner: Daniel Schmidt II #45 

1969 Chevelle "Grease Lighting" 

Daniel Schmidt is the proud owner of this 1969 Chevelle. He bought this 

car from the President of SMVR, Mickey Fleethart in 2019, Daniel and his 

dad (Dan) did all of the customized work on the car themselves to make 

it ready to race on the dirt track. Daniel has been racing with SMVR since 

2019 and is also the Vice President of the Club. He and his dad performed 

most of the work on the vintage cars for the club. This actual race night was 

in memory of one of Daniel's friends Dane Hartman, taking him for his last 

ride. (RIP Dane Hartman) 




Car owner: Allen Guthrie #151 (Driver: Andrew Wiles) 

1951 Studebaker "Miss Becky" 

Allen Guthrie is the proud owner of this 1951 Studebaker. Andrew Wiles 

is the driver of this car. He retired from the Army in 2013 and spoke to his 

buddy Jack Simmons about building him a race car. When he began racing 

he met Allen Guthrie and Allen had wanted to turn this car into a Vintage 

race car, so Andrew got the car ready for racing. Erie Highschool did a lot 

of the work on the engine build. That is when Andrew got the go ahead from 

Allen to be the driver since Allen himself was racing another car. Andrew 

would really like to thank Allen Guthrie for allowing him to drive the car and 

have the enjoyment of being part of the SMVR club. 



Car owner: Mickey Fleethart #7 


Mickey Fleethart is the proud owner of this 1941 Ford Coupe. He has been 

racing different classes of cars since 1979. Mickey started racing with late 

model stock at an Illinois track. He went from that to 4 cyl cars, then he decided 

to take a break from racing to raise his family. Mickey started back 

to racing in 1997 with his son racing go-carts. His son decided to retire from 

racing but Mickey wanted to continue. So he started racing Vintage cars in 

2002, which was the same year Show Me Vintage Racing Club was formed. 

In 2021 Mickey was 71 years old and he is the President of SMVR! 




Car owner: Jeff Triggs #58 

1939 Chevy Sedan "Bob" 

Jeff Triggs is the proud owner of this 1939 Chevy Sedan. He has been racing 

the circle tracks since 2001 with SMVR. Jeff bought this car in 2011 and 

did the modifications that were needed to race with SMVR. He travels over 

300 miles to race with the club. 



Car owner: Rodney Ashworth #1A 

1936 Chevrolet Sedan "Betty Lou" 

Rodney Ashworth is the proud owner of this 1936 Chevrolet Sedan. He 

was running at I-35 Speedway, racing in the late model class and that's 

when he saw the Vintage cars racing as well. So he decided to check them 

out. He has owned 4 different vintage race cars since. Rodney has fallen so 

in love with the vintage racing that he has sold all of the other classes of 

cars that he owned. Rodney was raised in the racing scene, his father use 

to race sprint cars. He raced until the mid 80's and stopped for a few years 

but then got back into it in 2019 because of the support of his wife Angela! 


Car owner: Jim Thorne #113 

1934 Ford Sedan "Betty" 

Jim Thorne is the proud owner of this 1934 Ford Sedan. Jim has dedicated 

this car to his father who raced in the mid 60's, his father's number was 113. 

He bought the car in the Spring of 2021. Dan Schmidt converted the car from 

an asphalt car to a dirt track car. Jim has been with SMVR since 2020. He 

used to race a 1963 Ford Fairlane. Jim is also the owner of the #99b car and 

has a driver for the car. 




Car owner: Jim Barnes #99b 

1946 Mercury Monterey "Bernadean" 

Jim Barnes is the proud owner of this 1946 Mercury Monterey. He bought 

this car in 2019 from a guy in St Louis. It is an original car that the racers 

drove in the 60's and 70's. Jim Barnes has been driving for many years 

and Jimmy was one of his guys in the Pit Crew that would help him out. Jim 

decided to let Jimmy drive the car as a payback for all of his help over the 

years. Jim (driver) has been working on cars since he was at least 12 years 

old. He works for Jim now and has always loved being around racing, so 

finally he gets to be the driver of one of the cars. 



Car owner: Brad Barlow #88 

1955 Chevy 

Brad Barlo is the proud owner of this 1955 Chevy. He started out being 

one of the frist driving instructors from 1998-2001 with cupcars.com to 

do laps at Kansas Speedway. Brad traveled all over the country with that 

circuit to Talledega, Daytona, Las Vegas and many others. After the school 

closed he reached out to I-70 Speedway and became their instructor, 

which led to him becoming the General Manager for 7 years. Gary Joslin is 

Brad's sponsor and he is really enjoying racing the vintage cars with SMVR. 

He started racing with the club in 2021. 


SMVR RACE SCHEDULE 2022 

SAT MARCH 26TH - I-35 SPEEDWAY 

SAT APRIL 9TH - I-35 SPEEDWAY 

FRI APRIL 22ND - LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY 

FRI MAY 6TH - DALLAS COUNTY SPEEDWAY 

SAT MAY 14TH - I-70 SPEEDWAY 

SAT MAY 21ST - VALLEY SPEEDWAY 

SUN MAY 29TH - ELECTRIC CITY SPEEDWAY 

SAT JUNE 4TH - CENTRAL MO SPEEDWAY 

SAT JUNE 18TH - I-35 SPEEDWAY 

SAT JULY 2ND - VALLEY SPEEDWAY 

SAT JULY 16TH - I-35 SPEEDWAY 

SAT JULY 30TH - LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY 

SAT AUGUST 13TH - CENTRAL MO SPEEDWAY 

SUN AUGUST 21ST - MISSOURI STATE FAIR 

SAT SEPTEMBER 3RD - I-35 SPEEDWAY 

SAT SEPTEMBER 10TH - VALLEY SPEEDWAY 

SAT SEPTEMBER 24TH - I-35 SPEEDWAY 


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