Ronnie Ramer - Omega, Oklahoma
The #166 owned and driven by Ronnie Ramer of Omega, Oklahoma. Here the car is loaded and
ready to head out on another of our many road trips. Since the photo was taken in front of
my old house in Del City, we must have been going to Lawton, Dallas or maybe a special at
Oklahoma City. This was a mid to late season photo, you can tell by fact the paint on the
hood and cowl does not match the paint scheme on the rest of the car and the bungee cord
across the front of the hood. Keep in mind this was years before Gambler made it
fashionable to use a bungee cord to hold the front of the hood down on their sprint cars,
we must have been trend setters. Notice the wide 5 hubs on the rear, this was about 1976
or 77 and wide 5's were pretty rare in this area on supers at this time, most supers used
open tube rear ends with knock-offs. The right front wheel is a Doc Grice copy of the Weld
light weight steel wheels. The car was sponsored by Ronnie and his Dad's businesses: Omega
Auto Parts & Repair, Omega Trucking and Omega Racing Engines. The car also received
product sponsorship from Crane Cams, VHT and Roto Faze distributors.
Ronnie's dad J.C. Ramer was the Oklahoma City rookie of the year in
1960, if memory serves me right. The last I knew Ronnie and his dad still had some of the
body and engine parts to his dad's old modified coupe, which featured a Chrysler hemi
engine. Ronnie also was a regular in the semi-late and late model classes at Enid for many
years. The chassis was built by Dale Parson Auto Racing for Ronnie in 1973 I believe and
featured cross torsion rear suspension and a transverse leaf spring on the front. This car
eventually was sold to Dale Parson and he changed the frame rails to rectangular tubing
and lengthened the wheelbase from 100" to 108" to race it with the Texas
modifieds, that was the last I knew of the car. If anyone connected with the car
(especially Ronnie, Tim, Charlie, the other Terry) is online, please send me an email
sometime. Terry Sanderson |