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Picture File PG_AB1-0207.jpg This picture is from Volume 14 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Sam Sessions in the Les and Paul Bingo 15.

Ok, now where does the Les and Paul Bingo 15 fit into all of this?
Picture File PG_AB1-0295.jpg This picture is from Volume 14 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Art Bennet in the Bingo 151. Has a winter coat on.
Picture File PG_AB1-0296.jpg This picture is from Volume 20 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Art Bennet in the Bingo 151. Looks like the Speedrome. Probably a Ray's Racing Photo.
Picture File PG_AB1-0309.jpg This picture is from Volume 21 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Johnny Logan in the Bingo 151 at Berlin.
Picture File JMcRae1.jpg This picture is from Volume 27 of the Photo Archives: Johnnie McRae in the Bingo 5.

Compare this car to the Bingo 151 above. Notice the differences between the two cars.
Picture File PG_AB1-0341.jpg This picture is from Volume 23 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Nellie Ward wins. Johnny Gordinski on right. Nelson was killed in a racing accident at Shangri-La.
Picture File PG_AB1-0342.jpg This picture is from Volume 23 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Nellie Ward wins in the Jay Gordinski Bingo 5. Johnny Gordinski.
Picture File PG_AB1-0343.jpg This picture is from Volume 23 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Nellie Ward wins in the Gordinski Bingo 5.
Picture File PG_AB1-0344.jpg This picture is from Volume 23 of the Phil Ghysels Photo Album 1 collection: Nellie Ward wins in the Gordinski Bingo 5.

Compare this car to the Bingo 5 above. They do not appear to be the same car. Roll cage is not the same, the bars are different, front bumper. So is this caption correct that Nellie Ward is driving? I think he only drove the Gordenski Bingo 5 (above) and not this Pete Webster car. Or is this the Gordenski car heavily modified.
Picture File paulspencer5.jpg This picture was sent in by Jim Carmichael (Jimmie's Old Time Racing Photos). Tony Martin snapped this photo at Portsmouth in 1961 shortly after a guy named Mr. Spencer of Spencer Produce in the capitol city had bought the car. He had a driver named Paul Spencer (no relation) of Portsmouth, Ohio drive the pink and white racer at places like Portsmouth and Atomic in Ohio and Ohio Valley Speedway and Huntington Motor Speedway in West Virginia. "I remember it being fast down the straight but couldn't get around the corners very well. It was also one of the first "fuel injected" cars in the area."

Which car was this? Look at the distance between where the bars mount to the frame. Could this be the Gordenski car above where the cage has been lengthened by cutting between the bar mounts and adding a foot in there?
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