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Harry Obie
2006 Inductee

(born September 31, 1931 - died October 30, 1996)

Harry Obie was a longtime car owner and innovater at Berlin Raceway. After a short driving career (1952 to 1955, when he was forced to retire after he was injured going to the aid of a fellow driver who had crashed), Obie became a car owner, fielding a car for Eddie VanderLaan beginning 1956. Randy Sweet was his next driver, from 1972 until Obie's retirement from racing in 1980. The Obie/Sweet team won the 1975 Berlin Raceway Late Model championship. In 1980, with the help of Sweet, Harry founded Obie Manufacturing and was a major innovator of new racing products such as the rack and pinion steering, spindles, and much of the equipment that both Sweet Manufacturing and Obie Manufacuring sell today.