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Looks like Steve Kinser coming up on the outside in photo #1.

3rd pic is Art Lentini and JR. Crouse. Opening night at Flemington I think maybe like 1986ish. I worked on JR's car that year. This was a brand new olsen car and the very first race with Shammy Shine sponsorship. Earlier that day we had in on display in front of the car wash in Clinton. Guy Howie built the motor and was crew chief. Frame was junk after wreck. If I recall we stripped the car down completly that night.  Next day we drove down to Bob Fisher's place and bought a new Olsen frame off of him. Rebuilt the car and came back the following week. Car was lettered by Dave Garbowski.

One other cool thing I remember about working on the Shammyshine car....We used to kepp the car on a farm right next door to Alexandria airport. We actually shared a barn with the 87 Dutchess Overhead Door car that was driven by Richie Burgess at that time.

I remember on Saturdays we would be loading up for Flemington and he would be loading up headed for Middletown. I remember Dan Madsen the owner of Dutchess Overhead flying in and parking his plane only a couple hundred yards away from the shop and walking over to keep an eye on things. I thought it was cool being in a shop with 2 different teams and the owner of the 87 flying in his own plane. 

The week after the flip Steve Newman (aka team249) was the full time paid mechanic and worked on the car non stop to get it put back together. Jr. Actually found him asleep laying on the creeper under the car one morning. Steve is still working for Shammyshine managing all the car washes!