The “Home of the Supermodifieds” has one super fan in Scriba’s Don Myers.

Oswego Speedway’s season-opening program is Sunday, and Myers, 71, will be there, watching the action from his seat in the top row along the first turn.

He’s been going to the races there since 1953, and he has a grandstand full of stories and memories.

Myers got started going to the races to watch his cousin, Mexico’s Dick Jerrett Sr., compete. He would wait by the road and Jerrett would pick him up and take him to the track.

“He raced, and that got me going there,” Myers said.

They would go into the pits, and it started a tradition for Myers. He would meet and speak with the drivers, and it’s something he still does today. Now, he says going to the pits after the races is a great way to chat with the drivers and avoid traffic.

“You can walk into the pits and say hello to the guys you know, then get into your car and drive home. You don’t have to fight traffic,” Myers said.

The race that sticks out the most for Myers is when he watched Jerrett secure the track championship in 1955. He said Jerrett was a clean and careful driver.

“The year he won the track championship, that car never had a scratch,” Myers said. “But coming home one night, the tow bar broke, and the car went across the road and hit a stone wall and tipped up on the passenger side, and that was the only damage he had to his car.”

His other early favorite drivers included “Smiling” Eddie Bellinger Sr. and Nolan Swift.

“Ed Sr. had a yellow car. One time he went off the first turn into the pot ash and the car was just about gray,” Myers said. “He crawled out of the car and you could see a big smile on his face. He was still smiling.”

Swift, Myers said, was known for having the 10-pins on his car.

“He’d turn them on when he got the lead. One time he slipped a little bit in a turn, and someone passed him and won the race. He had to turn them off. I just remember it happening that one time,” Myer said. “Normally, when he got the lead, he’d win.”

The cars and drivers have changed through the years, and so has the way the racers arrive at the track. Myers recalled seeing the first hauler.

“If the car had been two inches longer, it wouldn’t have fit,” he said. But it was still impressive. “Oh boy, he’s got money,” Myers said everyone thought. “Nowadays, you could live in some of those haulers.”

When supermodifieds began racing at Oswego Speedway, their speed wowed the fans.

“The cars were always fast, even when they had stock cars,” Myers said. “But when the supers came, it was unbelievable the speeds that they turned.”

Myers’ streak of years attending the races was put to the test when he was in the Air Force, stationed in Massachusetts. Even though he and his wife, Barbara, lived in Massachusetts, he would get back to Oswego as often as he could to watch the races.

His parents lived in Scriba, so he would leave the base on Friday or early Saturday, catch the races, and head back to the base on Sunday.

“That’s a true fan,” Barbara said.

When their four children were grown, Barbara joined her husband attending races at Oswego Speedway. They enjoyed watching Jimmy Shampine, Bentley Warren, and especially Eddie Bellinger Jr.

“I was a big Eddie Bellinger Jr. fan,” Barbara said. “He’s such a nice guy, and such a clean driver. We were all sad when he left.”

Don and Barbara used to camp at the speedway for Classic Weekend.

“We had a motor home and we would camp down there for a week. It was a big family thing. We had a lot of friends down there,” she said.

Among the current drivers, Don said his favorites include Otto Sitterly, Mike Ordway, Shawn Walker, Bob Bond, and Mike Bond.

He said he liked when the limited supermodified class — now called the small-block supermodifieds — began competing at the track, and he’s still a big fan of the class.

“They don’t run as fast as the supers, but they race good. They’re fun to watch,” he said.

The Myers family not only enjoys Oswego Speedway racing, but NASCAR action as well.

They were big fans of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Petty, and now they follow Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the other competitors. The family and friends often get together for NASCAR parties.

But at Oswego Speedway, it’s Don who is definitely the most loyal fan from the family. He’s excited about the start of another season.

For every year since 1953, Oswego Speedway action has sent his heart racing.