Vintage trophy girl photos

Besides looking so cool do velocity stacks serve a useful performance purpose?

 

Yes, length is determined by RPM. Longer is higher RPM.

 

The Foster Auto Supply car is Kurtis Kraft midget #1. Arlen Kurtis found the car and was able to restore it. Pretty cool to have the first of over 500 midgets your dad built!

 

Looks like a Gerry Steiner pit crew from the good old days.

 

http://beebe-mulligan.com/B-M-1969-1.shtml

 

Well you won't see this (Bars and Stars) much any more.

 

Hell of a pit crew...

 

Always been my favorite Hotrod picture

 

That's very cool!!
When was #1 produced?

 

At the end of 1945. Frank would have had it built sooner but couldn't get the tubing and sheet aluminum needed for the build. The shop my dad was working at was heavy into machining parts for the war effort. Dad got the shop owner to order the needed material on a war priority and he had it delivered to Frank's shop. Dad was supposed to get the first midget, but Casale was slow in getting his new QC rear end built after the war. Frank was anxious to get Kurtis Kraft #1 out on the track to get orders coming in. Lloyd Axle had a Warren QC, and so Dad let him have #1. Dad had to let 2 more cars go to the next guys inline, and finally got car #4. That actually worked out better. Frank decided that, after #1, he could use thinner wall tubing on the frame, so #2, and all that followed were lighter. Also the first 3 cars had 1/4 elliptic front springs. Drivers said they didn't like the feel on dirt tracks, so Dad's #4 was the first with a cross spring front axle.

 

Great story, thanks! "War Priority"!
Just owning any original Kurtis is unimaginable.

 

Dad didn't get #1, but I did. In this photo I'm qualifying for a race in Wichita, Kansas, 1957. The car is Kurtis 1/4 midget #1.

 

That's a pretty intense look your sporting.

 

You had to be serious to win the national open fuel championship!

 

@rusty rocket ......Check out Dean's Nerf Bar......(post#5376)

@Dean Lowe that's priceless...About as close as I got to that was buzzing around the yard on the Lawn Tractor......I think I know who had more fun...

 

Time to find a higher res version...

 

that is a great story Dean, thanks for sharing

 

Dean I have to ask, did they have Trophy Gals at those Races to Present you Young Tikes after the Big Win?...heck we've see a few here. You fellas had Pro pretty down to a science there thats for sure!! Those are not your average go carts...

 

Credit to Photographer, Owner

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Yes we did have trophy girls. Not as "developed" as the ones on this thread though.

 

A J Foyt 1960

 

Pat Flaherty 1956 Indy 500 winner

 

Wow!!!

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Why are wicarnut photos x’d out on my screen?


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Wow what? Have you never seen a SIG ERSON shirt before.