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Emil Lloyd "Buzzie" Reutimann (born May 7, 1941) is a former NASCAR driver from Zephyrhills, Florida. He is the father of former driver David Reutimann. Reutimann was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Eastern Motorsport Press Association Hall of Fame in 2006.
While competing on dirt tracks in the Northeast, Reutimann was a summer resident on a farm in the Asbury section of Franklin Township, Warren County, New Jersey. "Here in tiny Asbury is the 400-acre farm NASCAR driver David Reutimann describes with the kind of delight taken from a childhood keepsake: The white farmhouse that's as old as America.... Thirty years ago, though, he was a skinny, blond-haired boy spending his summers on the farm in Asbury -- which has been owned by the Sigler family for more than a century -- while his father, Buzzie Reutimann, was making legend on the Northeast dirt car circuit."
In 1972, Reutimann won the dirt modified track championship at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, New York. That same year he captured the win at the prestigious Eastern States 200. Reutimann would also win the first running of the event now known as Super Dirt Week in 1972 at the Syracuse Mile He would win again in 1973.
Reutimann has continued to race and win into his eighties. He competes weekly at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Florida.
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