-thanks for the replies.
-But I am surprised.
-my story is that I owned an oval track limited modified car and we raced a two night event as separate class along with the sprint cars & supermodified at Bonneville raceway park 1/3 mile asphalt oval here in Salt lake City Ut.
-This was at a two day annual event called the Intermountain Championship and was won by Rod Furtado of San Jose in both 1975 and 1976--and was part of the August Speed festival, supposedly all major speed events within Utah during the month of August 1976 in which these bi-centennial medals were earned.
-there were 6 recipients of these medals at our race, Rod Furtado from San Jose, Alma Facer and Bill Madsen from SLC in the supermodified class---and Dave McCartney, Dave Fitzgerald and Chris Hendricks in the limited class.
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-Dave McCartney was driving a car owned by me and Elmo Wilkerson and Dave got a gold medallion, I think it was one full ounce.
-when they presented the medallion to Dave the US Government officials explained to us the medallions had been inspired by the long time presence of the speed trials at Bonneville, and was part of USA's effort to commemorate America's 200th birthday.
-We all got to look at it briefly but me and Elmo and our crew all felt that Dave earned it so he got to keep it---and we never got any photos or ever saw it again.
-McCartney ended up moving away and later on became ill with lateral sclerosis and died some years later.
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-after all these years I began to wonder what it really looked like---and was sure these same medallions would have been awarded to Bonneville racers---so that's why I thought this thread about old Bonneville photos would be a perfect place to display photos of the medallions.
-thanks for the help, I appreciate your responses, I am stunned that Bonneville participants would not have been presented with any of these medallions.
-Bill Jones (fwillyj)