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Don Schlondorf #98
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I am the step son of Don Schlondorf (Dennis
Shavlik). I have many fond
memories of riding the rides
before the races, watching dad
race and listening to George
Murphy announce the races. Dad
raced the 55 Chevy with the hard
running 350 until I believe
about 1970 or 71 when he started
racing the 69 Chevy with the
454. He always complained about
how hard the 350 ran with
limited issues but he struggled
with heat problems on the 454
along with ball joint issues on
the 69. He retired from racing
in I believe 72 and passed away
in 1987. I even have memories
of my family getting together
with Paul and Zadan and his
family on occasion. The best
memory was when dad won all that
money on the silver dollar night
where he had these big bag of
silver dollars ( I believe that
was the payout at playland and
not sunset) In any event I
enjoyed looking at the stories
and photos on the website and
even found a few we had in
storage of dad racing at
Playland so I am attaching them
in this email.
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