B & R Speed Specialties Brewster,N.Y.

Here are pictures of the ’55 & speed freak, 😛
Paul a little off on the location, Bobby & Ray’s shop 😳
was on the down slop just before the train station across the street, 😮
when Bobby & Ray sold it that was when the NAME
went to the shop near Brady Standard,
now a friend of mine son’s auto detailing shop, “Q-Tip”.
but you had the town right 😉

Bob’s Auto parts is still owned by the Tompkins family
now a NAPA store,

Big Mike Engines, Mike passed away a while ago, 😥
pictures of Andy’s ’57 “Super Stious” in mygallery
has Big Mike’s on the fender,
Brewster Auto Parts no more, now 2 shops in brewster
Levines auto parts from Ct, and a Carquest.
LMT from Put Plaza to brewster now the Carquest shop
think the name is still used
Nap Radiator still there, Lonny now a dealer for supplement heating
supplies, pellet stove & supplies also coal.

remember State Wide auto parts that started on 6N, Mahopac
Barry “The Snake”, 🙄 I remember when he ran
Motor Boys Aid store in the Bronx on Fordam Road & Arthur Ave. 😮 😮
more deals after 5pm out the back door… 🙄

Tell dad specials this month in Mopar Performance magazine
for headers & cat back systems that fits Mom’s car 😈 👿 👿

Happy 4th to you and EVERYONE home and fellow Dover’its

Bobby S.

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‘mater you mentioned
BOB’S AUTO PARTS, Carmel,

Bob Tompkins Sr. passed away 2 weeks ago,
he started Bobs’s Auto Parts in carmel
in a small store on rte 6 & Seminary Hill Rd.
Than build the building now on rte 6 & old rte 6 in carmel.

Sad to say that Bob’s Auto parts will be no more with in a few weeks,
going out of business, property was sold
another Land Mark of the area will be gone.
The sons Robbie & Jimmy and sister Bonnie will be missed.

Over the years they helped a lot of ODF racers in the area.

I met Ray (zoom zoom) Dwyer in October 1967 (give or take) a month, when I was a Freshman in High school, commuting by Train to White Plains NY. I would arrive at the station most days around 3:45 PM, and My dad would pick me up during his intercall trips around Putnam county. Some days it was within 10 Minutes, some days it would be hours…To further confuse the timing, some days I would catch an earlier train, depending on the lights on Mamaroneck Ave in White Plains. So needless to say, I was a very impressionable kid of 13 Yrs old, hanging around the Station, and there was this nut in the office, and He Drove the most beautiful car I had ever been allowed to be near, A Black Corvette coupe, Stinger hood, and side pipes. As time went by, I would be invited By Ray to wait in the office, and he would regale me with stories. The infection I caught from that car stayed with me to this day, causing me to have two of them in my garage. When it came time to buy my first new set of Crager SS wheels, I renewed my association with Ray, and then The Army intervened, and I moved away. He, and a few other names, Norm Fisher, (Norm 3168) Tony Astrologo, (hello parts) Willie Hormite (sp) and the Lena Brothers, and Earl Gondolfi, are all memories of my attempts at going faster than anybody else….

I worked there, from ’71-74. Bill Burack owned it then. I still have a couple of those decals. I worked there so I could get a break on my speed parts. I was running a ’66 GTO with  the 389 HO 4bbl, first one had a two speed, second one had the M-21 Muncie 4 spd.,3:93 posi . I wish I still had that car.