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Reprint From the Speedway Scene / Speedway Promotions LENNY BOEHLER: Freetown, Massachusetts, Lenny Boehler's home town, Lenny Boehler, legendary Modified Series car owner, succumbed to his long battle with cancer last Sunday, Boehler enjoyed a long and prosperous Auto Racing career recording hundreds of feature victories and earning five national championships. Lenny Boehler was a mainstay in the Modified Series, the backbone in a series that has watched many come and go. He successfully competed in the professional ranks of today's racing with the same grass roots work ethic that brought him recognition in the early days of racing. His success as a car-owner and chassis builder spanned five decades recording national championships with Bugsy Stevens in 1967 through1969, with Wayne Anderson in 1994 and with Tony Hirschman in 1995 & 1996. More recently, he and Tommy Cravenho had together found victory lane in "Old Blue". Boehler was equally as enthusiastic of his sons racing efforts as he was of his own. He accompanied Michael to the stage at the Worcester Centrum when he was honored as the 2000 Featherlite Modified Series NASCAR Touring Rookie of the year. Maybe one of Lenny's proudest moments. Lenny Boehler made an impression on everyone that had the honor of meeting the legendary builder. A man of few words, he quietly left a profound effect on all those who met him. The New England racing community has suffered a great loss.
LENNY BOEHLER: by Mike Joy Lenny Boehler, was the one modified car owner and builder to successfully transition from the 1960's to the 21st century without appearing to change a thing. He was a great character, a shrewd mechanic and innovator, and a person whose uniqueness will be terribly missed by our sport. Lenny's track presence wouldn't make much of an impression on sponsors. His shirt often bore someone else's name, and his cars might sport a light coat of rust where others had gleaming chrome. He took delight in adapting old stuff to new, surprising uses. Remember Boehler's "ball joint coolers"? Two cut down Maxwell House coffee cans and a few hose clamps made pretty fine scoops to get air to the uh, ball joints, (not to mention the air they ducted to cool the front brakes). Remember the time Jack Arute Sr. told Lenny to take his "Old Blue" home and not bring it back to Stafford Speedway if he couldn't be bothered to clean and paint it? Did that car really need to have to spend the winter out in the chicken coop, or was that or was that just Lenny, tweaking the modified establishment one again?
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