South County Motor Sports Club

South County was formed in 1967 and became incorporated in 1968. It was an era of wire wheels, gasoline with lead and clocks went clockwise because they weren't yet digital. We met once a month at the Howard Johnson's in North Kingstown for club business. When I joined the club membership had reached 33. Our monthly rallies started from the Kingstown Plaza and usually ended at Custy's.

The club newsletter was The Bullrake "Published Monthly in Occupied East Greenwich". Ken and Marsha Frausel were the editors. It carried announcements of our own as well as neighboring clubs' events, results of our events and successes of club teams at outside rallies. Regular articles included Minnie Cooper's Advice to the Lovelorn. The Bullrake was printed on a duplicating machine and it was a big deal when we bought a real mimeograph in June, 1968 (there was no Kinko's) because now we could print on both sides of the paper! This was at a time when first class postage was only 6 cents.

After more than 10 years of rallying, the car badge began to show signs of wear. Lucky I got the patch option.

Names from the Past These names were listed in the club point standings as of June 14, 1968: (* denotes club officer)
Ken Frausel - 1250 Marsha Frausel* - 1043 Betsey Reynolds* - 586 Bob Elbe - 556 Frank Spunzo* - 480 Hope Malmgren - 328 John Vaughn* - 288 Bill Channel - 250 Elaine Williams - 232 Harold Indelicato* - 165 Rick Silva - 103 Charles Henry - 113 Bob Barber - 101 Bill Maloney - 97 George Quimby - 91 Don Judas - 89	Keith Finck - 84 Stan Briggs - 66 Eddie Hardman - 63 MaryAnn Ryan - 51 Gary Beddow - 45 Dick Aiken - 43 Leo Leduc - 33 Jack Schmitz - 27 Diane Wood - 15 Skip Lambert - 5 Alicia Lang - 5 Greg Lang - 5 Bill Leonard - 5 Ronald Mancyak - 5 Terry Perry - 5 Mark Rerick - 5 Frank Stevenson - 5