Butch Salter

2019 Inductee, S

Butch Salter’s “affair with the Automobile” began while he was in high school and he removed the top from his first car, a 1928 Ford, to make it a roadster. It became his first race car, powered by a four cylinder engine. In the quest for speed, he built a dragster...

Bill Canty

2019 Inductee, C

Bill Canty moved to Colorado with his family in 1960. After finishing school, his early racing experience consisted of drag racing a pickup truck at Rocky Mountain and Mountain View Dragway. After a tour of Vietnam, Bill began his stock car racing career in 1971 when...

Bob Harmsen

2019 Inductee, H

Bob Harmsen will be inducted into the Colorado Motorsports Hall of Fame as one of the 2019 Jerry Van Dyke award recipients. Born in 1943, Bob had an early passion for cars and racing, which turned into a lifelong involvement supporting motorsports through the Harmsen...

2019 The Vickery Family

2019 Inductee, Agajanian Award, V

The Vickery family is this year’s recipient of the J.C. Agajanian Award, which is given in recognition of contributions to Colorado motorsports by a group or organization. Several family generations of the Vickery Racing Team have been involved in participating,...

Historic Memoir by George Thompson

Colorado Motorsports Pioneers

Historic Memoir by George Thompson I was a friend of Dean Dungan Jr. and spent time hanging around with him and his dad and going to midget races at Lakeside Speedway. There was one evening when we had gotten into the pits when we much too young but we were there...