Ray Heppe Stall, Racing Legend
Born in Pittsburg, PA in 1931, Ray Heppe Stall is the grandson of the founder of Heppe Stall Steel, the largest family-owned steel enterprise in UP but the fame of Ray would come from the racing world, not the steel industry grandfather.
Ray entered his first race, a 12-hour endurance race in Linden, NJ, airport, August 22, 1954. He has his new Nash Metropolitan, where he switched to a double-Strom carburetor throat and drove the front wheel of 12 inches.Heppe stall and his co-manager had to meet Howard retired after five hours with mechanical problems.
For the next 14 years was a director, designer and mechanic for his car, and the other owners, first SCCA Road Racing events in the United States. During 1958 and 1959 Ray was running a DB Panhard HBR5 Super Coupe Rally of Howard Hanna in Philadelphia, the Eastern U.S. distributor car DB has won numerous class wins, with Ray winning the SCCA production class Tchampionship in 1959 after Hannah's victory last year. Acting as a seller of DB in the entire East Coast of the United States, Ray was driving the car to and from all race meetings, including Riverside, California.
In 1960, Ray has introduced a modified version of the front-engined Elva Formula Junior cars built in England by Frank Nichols, known in the United States, as the Scorpion. This was followed by a 1100cc engine Rytune DKW, Rytune be associated with drive Elva. Heppe Stall entered ScorpionSCCA National at Marlboro, and Continental Divide, Colorado, and drove the car to third place in each of these races. Scorpions Mise fifth (with driver Pedro Ridriguez) and second (with director Chuck Wallace) in the final of the Vanderbilt Cup at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island.
E 'was in the 1968 season, the Howmet TX, has made history by designing, building and operating Howmet TX to Huntsville to win, and Marlboro. The Howmet was the first andturbine-powered car to win a race.
When Formula Super Vee began in 1971 with a Lotus Formula 3 chassis with a VW engine and it ran in the SCCA Super Vee Championship Series. Ray has continued to manage a team of the Super Vee, but when the formula changed the use of cooling air-cooled engines, water, around 1978, decided that the race has become too expensive, and his studio closed moved from Racing
Around 1990, lives in New Jersey, was involved inU.S. racing scene vintage racing a 1949 Crosley Hotshot immaculate three or four times a year and in 2000, the construction of a Miller in vintage racing.