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1976 It must have been about June or July back in 1976; Ted was a junior riding for Bart Markel from Flint Michigan. At the time Ted and I lived in Royal Oak Michigan. Ted was racing the entire local and most of the national race circuits and he never seemed to amaze me. He was what we call being full of it. On this one evening a Saturday night about 3 am in the morning I was sound asleep for about 4 hours and all of a sudden it sounded like the house was being run over by a Sherman tank, I jumped out of bed and fell on my face. It must have sounded like I tipped the bed over (I was in bedroom over the living room) as I ran down the stairs shouting what the Hell is going on down here, and that is when I saw Ted make bee line for his bed room laughing his head off along with about four of his buddies Like Tex Peel and Bird Hatcher. Well it seems Ted had acquired a new rock song on an album (I don't remember who it was) but the song began and ended with the beating of a human heart and if you had a good amp and Monster speakers you could wick it up and it would make the house bounce on the foundations. So guess what he had to show Tex and the boys. Yea you guessed it I could have kicked his butt all over the street, he was only 17 at the time and he was my boy.

An old friend from Michigan

I worked for Cycle News East and Vista-Sheen back in the "Day", and when I tripped on the site it blew my mind.. And brought back some fond memories, of being on the road with Bart, Ted and Randy. Several years ago I was really shocked when I heard about Ted's passing. I had just picked up a copy of CN and read about Rex Beauchamp's accident and death. I mentioned it to someone that used to race, and he asked if I knew Ted Boody. You can guess the rest, I was totally shocked.. Shortly thereafter I ran into Randy Goss in Tampa at a car race, and of course the first words out of both our mouths was, "Did you hear about Teddy" Ted was a neat kid and one hell of a racer, I remember seeing his get-off on Wide World of Sports, and the subsequent use of it as the, "Agony of Defeat" spot... I have just started going through my old negatives, my Web Site is under-construction and I will notify you when it is available. I will have a gallery of old racing photos on the site, feel free to us any that are of Ted. I noticed several images on the web site that looked very familiar.. Thanks for the effort on Ted's behalf, and ours for that matter, he was a good kid and we had some great laughs on the road. Ray Ninness