OPENING SET FOR SYRACUSE MILE EXHIBIT AT AUTO MUSEUM AS PART OF JANUARY "DOUBLE FEATURES" PROGRAM

For Immediate Release
Contact: Ron Hedger @ 518-885-7481 or Alan Edstrom @ 518-587-1935

Saratoga Springs, NY The opening of the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s new "Syracuse Mile" exhibit has been set for Sunday, January 20th in conjunction with the annual introduction of the New York State Stock Car Association’s newest Hall of Fame members at the permanent Hall of Fame display in the museum’s Racing in New York gallery.

The "Double Features" program will kick off at 11 am with the unveiling of the photos and nameplates of noted journalist Les Deuel, car owner Art Barry and drivers Buzzie Reutimann, Maynard Troyer and Bob McCreadie, to be inducted the night before at the huge NYSSCA awards banquet in Albany. The program will include remarks by the inductees able to attend.

Attention will then turn to the new SYRACUSE MILE exhibit featuring two of Syracuse’s most famous stock cars. One is the ’33 Ford coupe, on loan from historian and collector Jeff Ackerman, that Hall of Fame member Cliff Kotary drove to one of his chart-topping six State Fair victories at Syracuse. Alongside will be Gary Balough’s legendary "Batmobile," on loan from the DIRT Hall of Fame and Museum in Weedsport, that changed modified racing forever. The duo will be joined by a gleaming Offy-powered USAC championship car, courtesy of Urbana, Ohio historian Bob McConnell, that was driven by Ronnie Duman, Billy Foster, Len Sutton, Bob Harkey, Lloyd Ruby, Ralph Ligouri and New York ace Jim Hurtubise.

The exhibit also features a variety of graphics and memorabilia which, along with huge text panels, will help bring the story of the fabled New York State Fairgrounds track to life.

Further information on the Saratoga Automobile Museum, located on the Avenue of the Pines in the Saratoga Spa State Park just off Exit 13N of I-87, the Adirondack Northway, is available on-line at www.saratogaautomuseum.org.