Roy Crawley, 1923-2011
#1
Posted 05 April 2011 - 06:22 AM
The Crawley's have been involved in slot car racing from the "heyday" to today as track owners and for a number of years as Crawley Distributing.
Please keep Peter, Adam, and their families in your prayers.
Rollin Isbell
#2
Posted 05 April 2011 - 06:54 AM
Thanks for the update.
I certainly will be thinking of Pete and Adam.
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#3
Posted 05 April 2011 - 07:47 AM
Wasn't it Roy that started the Cobra line around New York?
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#4
Posted 05 April 2011 - 10:00 AM
Condolences to Peter and Adam.
-john
#5
Posted 05 April 2011 - 10:21 AM
Roy was a great person. He and Peter ran a great raceway.
#6
Posted 05 April 2011 - 10:26 AM
Prayers and thoughts go out to all the family. R.I.P., Roy.
Barney Poynor
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#7
Posted 05 April 2011 - 11:54 AM
I too spent many nights in the early seventies racing in Farmingdale at, I think it was called, Phase III Raceway. Pete and Adam were pretty young at the time.
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#8
Posted 05 April 2011 - 12:02 PM
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#9
Posted 05 April 2011 - 12:05 PM
My condolences to the Crawley family.
Roy was quite a character. As I recall, he and Lou Graziano were partners in the original Cobra and then split up. I can still remember and visualize the time Roy visited my apartment in Brooklyn to try to convince me to leave Team Russkit and join Howie at Cobra. Clearly he was a major and important figure in and contributor to the history of slot car racing.
Sandy
#10
Posted 05 April 2011 - 03:56 PM
I raced with Adam and Pete in the FSRA Div. 2 races in '95 to '98 and raced at Adam's track, too. It was well run and fun.
OLPHRT
PHIL I.
#11
Posted 05 April 2011 - 04:36 PM
When I was starting BIR Raceway, I did not have enough money to buy enough stock to really have enough to operate. Roy gave me credit to buy my opening inventory and gave me months to pay him back. When he wanted to spruce up his raceway, I built a race director stand for him and cleaned and epoxyed the track (after many years of full glue racing) and Roy paid more than I asked for when the job was over. Ernie Provetti bought his first armature balancer from Roy and that was one of the first steps to Ernie and Trinity's entrance to the high tech end of slot racing...
He was a good and fair man and slot racing has lost a good friend.
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#12
Posted 05 April 2011 - 04:42 PM
He was a good and fair man and slot racing has lost a good friend.
Roy was quite a character.
Both Robert and Sandy's statements pretty much sum up Roy for me. Hearing of his passing really got me to remembering those days, the look on his face and that drawl of his.
-john
#13
Posted 05 April 2011 - 08:27 PM
R. I. P.
#14
Posted 06 April 2011 - 04:13 PM
The slot car industry has lost a number of well-known names in the recent past and Roy joins that list as an important pioneer.
Hopefully they are all having a good time, reunited and shootin' the bull like the old days.
RIP, Roy.
mike@parmapse.com
#15
Posted 19 April 2011 - 03:53 PM
I've learned that Roy Crawley (father of Peter and Adam Crawley) passed away this past weekend.
The Crawley's have been involved in slot car racing from the "heyday" to today as track owners and for a number of years as Crawley Distributing.
Please keep Peter, Adam, and their families in your prayers.
I was talking to some fellow racers recently and telling them of all the fun we used to have at Phase III raceway in Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. That was in the early to mid-'70s. Roy called a great race, in the style of the original slot car 'palaces' of the '60s. He had to be the best slot track live announcer that I've ever had the pleasure of being involved with. He really made you feel like you were part of a big event, even if it was just a weekly racing series.
The boys where young then, I was in my mid-20s, and we had about eight or ten of my friends racing there with the other locals a few nights a week, everything from Womps to wings. We even ran a hardbody modified series every Friday night!
Later on in life, I was able to have my own raceway, and Roy was the first person I dealt with as my distributor. By then, of course, Pete had become heavily involved with the business, and I very much enjoyed my weekly visits to their place to personally pick up my order and talk about the old days for a few minutes. This was in the late '80s.
My deepest sympathies to the family. My brother Tom and I will never forget about the times we had at PhaZe III, and we'll never forget Roy and the races he provided for us on his American "Hillclimb" track.
Rest in peace, old friend...
Ernie Finamore
#16
Posted 19 April 2011 - 07:17 PM
#17
Posted 19 April 2011 - 09:25 PM
Yes, it's sad when one of our slot car men goes to the other side, and I will miss Roy and everyone else that goes to the other side. Maybe it's a good place I don't know yet!
Nesta
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In this bright future you can't forget your past.
BMW (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
United we stand and divided we fall, the Legends are complete.
I'm racing the best here at BP but Father time is much better then all of us united.
Not a snob in this hobby, after all it will be gone, if we keep on going like we do, and I have nothing to prove so I keep on posting because I have nothing to gain.
It's our duty to remember the past so we can have a future.
Pistol Pete you will always be in my memory.
#18
Posted 05 January 2014 - 08:06 PM
I raced at Phaze III from the late '60s to about 1974 and had a lot of fun. Crazy nights in Farmingdale. I remember Roy with his drawl and long patience with all the customers and racers. He did a very professional job at Phaze III, ultimately keeping slot racing going for many of us through the energy crisis and beyond. Other NY tracks have survived but only a few. The success of a track lies in the owner's willingness to support a clientele and Roy did that well.
Suiperbird