Mark Mosier No. 17 and 44 and 10
According to Dirtfans.com Mark Mosier was MVSC Season Champion in 62, 63, 64, 65, 67 and was a top contender for the title every year till an accident at Oskaloosa in the mid 70's resulted in a back injury that pretty much ended his career. In 1963 Mark Moiser won 26 out of 28 features in a 1941 Buick, straight 8 powered! You can click on some of these photos and make them larger. Below is Mark in his 57 Pontiac.
RuthAnn McDole Gugel shared this photo on facebook! Isn't it fantastic! Mark wins in 1962!
The above photo was from 1972 when Mark drove for Harold Norton from Fairfield.
Joe Tonkinson shared with me this great photo below of Mark and his 1957 Pontiac that the Stewarts owned. Thanks Joe! I have great memories of Mark in this car!
Here is Mark driving the 57 Pontiac as a converible...maybe only time he raced a convertible. Mike Niffenegger and Mark had a wreck. Tom Stewart said the top got ruined so they took it off and Mark drove it that way.
Karen Fenn whose Dad was a mechanic/builder of some of Marks cars shared this on facebook..
. Picture was developed in April 1967. The good ole days! — with Rhonda Stewart Wilson and Jane Flander and Karen Fenn are three of the girls taken in 1966 or 67. Mark had lots of fans !!
A couple more from Karen Fenn date spring 1967 and 66
1966
1967 this is a beautiful car and fast too.
Photo above from Karen Fenn, Mark is the feature winner,
Dale Gegner is the man giving Mark the trophy. Photo was at
Columbus Junction.
Karen Fenn shared this photo below and said it was from August 1966
Mark Kliendolph shared this one below on facebook..
Mark chasing No. 1 John Moss
Above shared by Kyle Ealy on facebook...Mark Mosier of Washington passed Ron Hemsted of Lone Tree
on lap 35 of the 50-lap season championship and held on to claim the Mississippi Valley Speed
Club title at Columbus Junction on September 16, 1967."
"Handsome Mark Mosier is surrounded by hardware after winning the 1967 Mississippi Valley Speed Club
championship. In addition to the championship trophy, he also has the sportsmanship award as well."
-Kyle Ealy shared on Facebook from his enormous Hawkeye Racing News collection.
Kyle Ealy share the photo below of Mark from Hawkeye Racing News
Fire on the 57 pontiac...Ed Thomas who shared this photo thought it might of been after an engine blew up. 1968 at West Liberty
Here is a couple more photos from Karen Fenn.
Rhonda Stewart Wilson shared this photo on facebook below. It looks like Mark and car owner Fat's Stewart getting the season champion trophy.
Mark Mosier was my favorite driver. I think it happened that way because one of my friends in school would talk about Mark all the time. His Dad knew Mark and the Stewart's from Washington, Iowa who built the powerful Pontiac cars. There is a little fuzz in my memory of Mark and some of the cars he drove. Ron Perdock also drove #17. So I might mistakenly post a Ron Perdock photo on this page too. Some photos can go bigger when you click on them. Mark won many season championships driving a Stewart's Pontiac. It had a different kind of rumble and a different power curve, you could watch it a Columbus Junction kind of surge ahead of the Chevy's at the end of the stretch.
I think Gale Reed put this photo on the net. I think I was there that night to see this race! Mark Mosier in the dark #17 1957 Pontiac and Big Johny Moss in the #1 Chevy front axle next to front axle for many laps!
Karen Fenn shared this photo below....she wrote-
Mark Mosier #10. Photo taken in 1968. That is me presenting him the trophy. Dan Robertson drove this car earlier that year as car #41 then number was changed to #10 when Mark took over and finished the year driving it.
Karen Fenn's Mother, Betty drove Marks car in the Powder Puff
derby at Columbus Junction and won it! Here she is below.
Thanks to Jodi Ross Vaniger for sharing the two photos above. The lower one is Mark with his car owner early in Mark's carreer ....Pops Stewart
Below the 44 car Mark drove for Harold Norton out of Fairfield Iowa. The Stewarts built this car.
Mark Mosier May 1970 driving number 44 for Harold Norton out of Fairfield.
Thanks Karen Fenn for these two photos above. The Stewarts in Washington built this car and sold it
to Harold Norton of Fairfield. Mark drive it for Mr Norton.
Below is a photo of the car on the trailer at Davenport when they went to race there
Jean Rath photo from 1971 at West Liberty. This car was owned by Harold
Norton of Fairfield, Iowa.
Tom Stewart sold this car to Harold Norton. Tom built it and drove it in 1970 he said.
Above Mark chasing Johnny Moss. Pam Elwell shared this photo.
Below Kyle Ealy shared this on facebook-
Mark Mosier of Washington is joined in victory lane by car owner Harold Norton after winning the Mississippi Valley Speed Club feature at West Liberty on May 2, 1970.
Kyle Ealy shared this below on facebook from old Hawkeye Racing news.Thanks Kyle
"Mark Mosier of Washington took the lead from John Moss of Iowa City early on and went on to win the 50-lap Mississippi Valley Speed Club season championship at West Liberty on September 19, 1970. MVSC president Dale Gegner makes the trophy presentation.
Kyle Ealy shared this on facebook-
Mark Mosier of Washington takes a victory lap after winning the Mississippi Valley Speed Club feature at West Liberty on June 13, 1970.
Mark wins again. This was at Columbus Junction or West
Liberty. He won the Iowa State Fair Super Stock Championship
In 1970 in this car I think.
Here is how it went. Thanks to Midwest Racing Archives for permission to share this story.
It’s called a dirt track, but the racing surface at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, afternoon August 27, 1970, was more like a rough combination of concrete and glass. The super stock drivers found the “dry slick” that was formed under a bright sun and temperatures in the high 90’s lead one direction - into the fence at the top edge of the track.
Many of the drivers, used to running the high-banked oval at night, appeared to have trouble adapting to the track and its condition. With the smaller degree of bank in the turns, and the sun making a tacky surface impossible, cars started hitting the fence and each other during hot laps, and continued throughout the afternoon.
In the third heat it took five tries to get the first lap completed, and the race was halted several times during the latter part due to more accidents. The consolation also took nearly a half-hour to complete, as spin-outs and accidents brought out the yellow flag.
Mark Mosier
Mark and the 44 taken looking at turns 1-2 at Columbus Junction.
Tom Stewart thought the above 3 photos were from 1971
Mark Mosier, who had see his hopes of winning the ’69 State Championship fade in the last few laps, overcame the difficulties of the racing surface to win the 25-lap event. Like Mel Morris did to him the year before, Mosier stayed glued to race leader Gene Schattschneider’s bumper throughout the contest and when “Schattsy’s” right rear tire shredded on lap 22, Mosier slipped by for the lead, where he fought off Joel Rasmussen the remaining three laps to take the victory.
Rasmussen would settle for his second straight runner-up finish in the race with John Moss taking third, Butch Householder grabbing fourth and Ron Hemsted of Washington taking fifth. Mosier, Jim Havill of LeClaire, Rasmussen, and Don Hoffman of Des Moines were heat winners while Phil Reece of Des Moines topped the consolation field. "
-End of Article from Midwest Racing Archives website.
Ed Thomas shared on facebook : Mark hurt his back driving the 44 car for Harold Norton at Oskaloosa. He ran over a tire that came off Mel Morris' car and went airborne.
Mark Mosier and Bud Darting at West Liberty I believe.
Below another photo of Mark and the 57 Pontiac that Stewart's owned.
Mark drove these 1957 Pontiacs for a couple years. Then quit driving for the
Stewarts and started driving the 44 above.
If you have more imgages of this car, please email them to me.
Crashed! Time to do some fixing on the car!
Same car below.. Tom Stewart said the wreck happened the first lap of the feature
race on the third corner.
Photo from Gale Reed.
This was 1967 opening night. Mel Morris car was also wrecked. The Stewarts built a new car
for Mark Mosier in 1 week.
May 13, 1967 –Mark Mosier of Washington, Iowa, driving a newly built 1957 Pontiac, took top honors in Mississippi Valley Speed Club action at the Louisa County Fairgrounds in Columbus Junction, Iowa, before a crowd of 3,100. Mosier held off a stubborn John Moss of Iowa City, Iowa, who finished a close second in his 1965 Chevy convertible. Ron Hemsted of Lone Tree, Iowa, took third followed by John Mullink of Iowa City and Tom Stewart of Washington.
I remember one year I think it was Kenny Finn who drove
Mark's 1957 Pontiac and won the Mechanic's Race.
Above ...1957 Pontiac that I remember most!
Warren Stewart sold this car to Ron Perdock.
This car below is a Pontiac that Mark drive for a while for the Stewarts. Tom Stewart
thought Mark drove this car in 1960. It looks to be a 1939 to 41 Pontiac?
I think this car below is a 1941 Buick that The Stewarts from Washington Iowa built and Mark drove it
to several MVSC season Championships. Tom Stewart said, "Dad built the Buick in 1962, ran this car 1962 - 1964 built a new car for 1965, won the championship every year."
Tom Stewart said this car above had a 320 cubic inch straight 8 engine.
Tom Stewart started driving this car after the Stewarts built Mark a new car.
Tom Stewart wrote about this old Buick- "It had a 3.6 gear ratio and a transmission of 1.5 in 2nd gear. He was way ahead of the time. John Mickey did think that he could hold the engine together and was talking about it over at Nichols engineering Ray Nichols told John to have dad call him and he would help him. He told dad how to put a full flow oil system on it, it wasn't illegal but he hid it up under the dash and it worked out well."
Warren "Fats" Stewart, car owner holding the trophy, and a young Mark Mosier next to him.
Mark behind the wheel. share by Rhonda Stewart Wilson on facebook. Rhonda wrote-
"Stewart race car Mark Mosier your driver the number 17 in the family for ever."
Below is a win from 1960 or 61 in the Pontiac.
Below is a win in the 41 Buick.
Above Mr Warren Stewart to the left who owned the car. Tom, warren's son said this was a 41 Buick
and the year of the photo was 1962.
Above Mark Mosier and Mrs. Midge Stewart, wife of the car owner Warren "Fat" Stewart.
Mark drove the same car from 62-64 the 65 car was built by Gene Stewart.
Photo above is from the Gale Reed Collection taken in 1963.
Below some newsclips from the Muscatine Journal shared by Ed Thomas
The photo and commentary below comes from Gale Reed.
"This is Warren "Fat" Stewart's seated below. He was the owner of Stewart Buick & Pontiac in Washington, Iowa that you see on the trunk of Mark Mosier's #17, 1941 Buick jalopy. He was the father of Gene Stewart and grandfather of Tony Stewart who raced Late Models at West Liberty and around the mid west. Fat sitting on the trailer after Tony tore up his late model.
