Larry Dickson (left) along with one of his early day rivals Harold (Robbie) Robinson (right) displaying their hardware after racing at the Marietta, Ohio Fairgrounds in 1957. Larry Dickson in his #0 1932 Ford coupe stock car acquired from Omar Younkin and formerly driven by Dick Dunlevy in action at Ohio Valley Speedway at Parkersburg, West Virginia during the 1959 season. Larry had an incredible year winning something like 16 features at OV with this car. >/left> These checkered flag and trophy scenes were pretty much common in 1959 at OV for Larry. And, the trophys kept getting bigger and bigger for Larry. This next photo is Larry's first supermodified ride. He raced this #0 special at places like Midvale, Debo and Alderman in Ohio. The rules in the OV area would not allow him to race locally on a regular basis, only in "open competetion" events. This photo is from around 1961. Rules would keep Larry racing at out of town tracks until around 1962. When the local tracks opened up to the sprint car type racers Larry was back on his home tracks with the Long Brothers (Dean and Don) in the Gibson Chev sponsored Lietenberger chassis sprinter #55 and would again be the "man to beat". Here's Larry in the Long Bros. Lietenberger chassis (former Indy car) sprinter after a win at Hilltop Speedway near Marietta, Ohio in 1962.

Larry, after joining forces with the Longs, would begin to venture out into even more promising racing land. The IMCA sprint car circuit would attract the team. I remember one such venture out to the Minn. State Fair in late summer of 62 or 63 with the Long Bros car would bring high finishes and would bait the hook for bigger and better things to come. During the winter of 1963-64 the Longs took delivery of a "new" Trevis sprint car built by famed car builder Floyd Trevis out of Youngstown, Ohio. Floyd was a top car builder in those days having built midgets and Indy cars and was now in the "mass production" of a new 4 bar cross torsion type car that would dominate eastern sprint car racing for years. His cars ruled the Ohio/Pa/WV racing curcuits during the early 1960's up thru the 70's. With Floyd's passing a few years ago, his son Ron now carries on the Trevis car building business. Today Trevis cars are not as dominate as it once was but the Trevis name is still out there.

The new Trevis car at Hilltop Speedway in 1964 with Larry posing. Larry was a dominate force everywhere they raced. They were racing at tracks like Greater Pittsburgh Speedway, Blanket Hill, Tri-City Speedway in Pa. and in Ohio at Midvale, Debo and Hilltop. They raced some at Ohio Valley Speedway and won a bunch there but missed some weekends to hit some of the bigger shows. During these years, one of the big things was the "Invitationals" paying $1000 to win. Some of these shows were mid-week shows while others were weekends. Larry and the Long Bros. hit nearly all of these, winning a few and had high finishes in several more. Here's Larry posing after a big win at Williamsgrove, Pa. in the fall of 1964. They were nearly always in the money.Another 1964 shot of Larry up close in the new Trevis. Again the IMCA sprint car circuit was very attractive and they hit a few of those along the way. They raced in a couple URC sprint shows, URC being an eastern US curcuit where many drivers such as Mario Andretti, Jerry Karl and Wally Dallenbach got their starts into the "big time". Here's Larry again. Larry's eye was focused on the big time by now.

1965 would be a year Larry would make a big decision in his racing career. Larry and the Longs would of course go to Tampa, Florida for the IMCA winter series. Here's Larry at Tampa in 1965. His association with the Long car would be nearing an end. It had been a successful hitch. It was around this time he met up with a car owner named George Nesler from the northeast. His car always ran the URC curcuit most recently with Earl Haliquist in the cockpit. This would send Larry on his way to the "bigtime".

This will end this page on Larry Dickson. He is on his way to URC to race for George Nesler in this car. We will continue following Larry's dream in pages to come in the near future. Stay tuned to JIMMIES OLD TIME RACING PHOTOS.