

Updated 3/6/20


Jeff on a four wheeler

Jeff hangin

Chet

Jeff in the mule

Chet at work

Chet on a run

Jack Sr relaxing

Jack sitting with that look on his face

Blake Miller, Ronnie, Chet and Nadine checking out Wagsbucks envelopes

The Gardners surround Ovals winner Rickie Gaunt

The Gardners at the Legends at Ascot

Nadine's logo

Jimmy with Chet

Jack Sr and Chet

Jack Sr on the phone

Jack Sr still on the phone

Mallory in the pits

Ronnie, Mallory and Chet at the head of the food line

Jeff

Chet, Blake, Ronnie, Jimmy and Jeff

Chet in the mule

Chet and Ronnie

Jeff with Wags

Jimmie Jr with Wags

Jeff with Wags and some Wagsbucks

Jeff with Bruce Bromme Jr

Jeff and Jimmy

Jack Sr with Alan Balalrd

Jeff giving Blake a ride

Jack Jr with Chet coming around the trailer

Chet with Austin Williams

Jeff and Wags

Jack Sr with Brad, and their cigars

Jimmy and a motor in the Gardner shop

Jimmy and the motor again

Jeff and son Ronnie

Jack Sr with Ellen Ellis

Brothers Jeff and Jimmy in the pits

Jim and Maryanne gardner

Jimmy Jr and his dad

Jack Sr and Gary W Howard

Jimmy and Blake Miller on a cruise

Jeff anad Blake Miller guzzling water

Jimmy and crewmember with a big trophy

Jimmy and Chet

Gavin and a crewmwmber

Chet giving a ride around the pits

Jack Sr with Nadine while Chet and Jack Jr were in the trailer

Chet and Ronnie in the tire changing contest at the Wagsdash

Chet and Gavin working away

Gavin hanging while Wags sneaks around behind him

Jack Sr with Dave Keller

Jeff giving Blake a ride

Jack Sr with Tony "The Cowboy" Jones

Nadine and Wags

Jack Sr and Rick Zeihl

Jack SR and Jim

Jim ad Jeff

Chet looking it over

Chet visiting

Jeff and Chet at Manzy

Ronnie, Chet and Jimmy

Chet with Jimmy and Charlie Zabinski

Jack Sr, Jimmy and Gavin

The Gardners on the roll

Jimmy Sr, Jimmy Jr and Gavin

Jack and Mary Anne with Don Kazarian. I think the were the Grand Marshal of the Ovals

Jeff and Jack Sr with Ripper

Jeff with Ronnie and Blake Miller

Jack Sr with Chet and Brad Noffsinger

Jack and Nadine with Wags in the MUle

Jack Sr, Blake Miller, Jimmy and Chet

Brad Noffsinger, Chet, Ronnie and Blake Miller

Jimmy, Ronnie, Jack Sr and Chet

Jimmy in the Santa Maria pit line

Jack jr, Dave Keller and Jimmy

Blake, Jimmy, Chet and Jeff

Chet, Ronnie, Jack Sr, Gavin and Blake

Jack Jr with Wagtimers Willie, Fran, Sonia and Krista

Jack Sr on right of a team photo from ???

Brad with Jack Sr and the boys

Jimmy with Chet, Ronnie and Paul Dean

Jack Sr, Jimmy with Gavin and Ripper at Santa Maria

Ronnie and chet wotking on Try Rutherford's ride

Jeff with Ronnie and Blake Miller with Evelyn Pratt

Jack Sr hetting a ride in Frank Sheltran's wierd buggy

Jack Jr with Rickie Gaunt, Jeff and a trailer full of Gardners

Ronnie, Brad Noffsinger. Chet and Blake miller getting agrivated by Chris Ho\lt

Jack Sr, Chet and Brad Noffsinger getting more from Chris Holt

The Gardners getting a trophy

Chet hangs as the crew is relaxing

The Gardners hanging out before the racing starts

Jimmy, Ronnie and Chet with Paul Dean at the PAS

Chet working on a Gaunt midget

Jack Sr

Nadine

Chet watching team work

Chet

Chet

Jimmy and Chet

Chet and Ronnie

Jimmy

Chet in my mule

# 93

Chet under the trailer cover

Chet on the jack

Chet on Tyler Brown's ride

Chet and Jimmy working hard

Chet following the car

Chet and Ronnie working

Chet with a lady

Chet working on a wheel

Gardner pit

Blake Miller

Blake Miller

Blake Miller

# 96 driven by Buster Venard with Charlie Zabinski, Jack Sr and Jack Jr

Jack Jr in a car

Jack with Nadine in push off area

Gavin with Nadine's ride

Jimmy pondering

Jack Sr, jack Jr and Jimmy with car ready to go back out

Ronnie and Chet working over Rutherford's car

# 93 getting a push

# 93

# 94

# 5

# 5 with Jack Sr

# 96

# 16

# 93

# 93

# 93

# 93 with Rickie Gaunt

# 96

# 93

# 16 didn't fit in the hauler

# 96

# 96 with Jack Sr

# 93 with jack Sr

# 96

The pits at santa Maria

Another view

# 96 at Ventura

# 16

# 5o

# 16

# 5 with Chet and Ronnie

# 5 with Chet

# 94 with Chet

# 94 with Chet and Gavin

# 16

# 16

# 96 with Jimmy

# 96 with Chet

# 16 with Gavin

# 93 with Nadine

# 93

# 16 with Chet

# 5

# 98
More cars
THE CARS

The cars

The cars

# 9

# 93

# 93

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Small Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Gardner row

Two # 5's

Blake Miller

Blake Miller

# 5

# 16

# 39 Ronnie

# 93

# 94

# 93

Jack Sr with his ride back in the day

Jack Sr in his ride

Jack Sr poster

Good art work
And the many Gardner cars

# 10

# 16

# 16 Nadine

# 16 Nadine

# 83

# 93

# 93

# 93

# 93

# 93

# 94

# 94

# 94

# 94

# 94

# 94

# 96

# 96

# 1 Brad Noffsinger leading Jerry Meyer

Howard Gardner inside Rosie Roussel

Howard Gardner with Nick Valenta

Jack Sr

Jack Sr

Jack Sr outside Don Zabel at Carrell Speedway

Jack Sr and Colby Scroggins
The Gardners are legends in the sprint car world. They had from 1 to 5 cars on the track from week to week for years until the family business went south. After Brad Noffsinger retired and moved on and Jack Sr stepped back where Jack Jr became the leader of the pack, the family moved back East for a few years before returning and doing well with Blake Miller and many others. The last of the mohicans, Ronnie, came along at just the time there was no family business to support his racing, but he has carved out something for himself with his midget championships and has been getting rides in a 410 sprint car regularly in 2017. There are so many stories behind the Gardner name, I only wish I knew them so I could relate, but they were a badass family who took on the world and often won!
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