Features VINTAGE SPRINT CAR PIC THREAD, 1965 and older only please.

Topeka 1969 IMCA Dick Sutcliffe Ralph Parkinson Sr

 

Jerry Weld Olympic Stadium Kansas City Mo

 

Another fuzzy photo of the Frank Wagner team cars. The #62 driven by "Scratch" Daniels (the former Traco Chevy), and the #63 driven by Jerry Richert.

 

a few for now more to come later

 

more

 

Super pics, Roy- those 40s color pics are amazing and pretty rare.
Whenever I see the tracks those guys ran on I have to wonder if they were totally fearless or totally insane. Shish-ka-bob single rail wood fences, a 2ft. deep trench about 3ft. off the track. And if you survived not being impaled or flung 200ft. through the air you could end up being drowned in the infield "lake"

 

Jimmy Reece in the John Zink Midget in color-Priceless!

 

a few more

 

The #V8 sprinter in post #397 has the rare THICKSTUN cylinder head covers. Neat!!!!!!!!

 

Check out the "Body English" on this Guy-Wow!!!

 

Holy shit these pics keep getting better all the time. Anybody got any of the Musselman Flip???

 

Check out the Banking!!!



Great picture of A.J. at the Indy Mile. The big building in the picture is still there, It has a huge Neon Pepsi sign on it now. ...oh, and the grandstands have changed a bit.



Here's a good one.



It took me a while to figure out this wasn't an old picture...

 

This ones for Roy...

Jimmy Caruthers in a champ car at Indy.





....and this ones for the rest of us! Sorry Roy, I couldn't resist!



JD

 

I gotta get a little off topic here for a sec but its a funny story.

John Mugavin, a GREAT ol' time "Been there done that" racer around these parts, tells the best stories!! Anyways, he was telling my dad and I one day about the time he invested a little money into a race horse that a fellow racer and car owner with a lot of money was going to buy. They bought it, got it ready to race (training and what not) and then came its first race. Well, it didn't do so well. It ran about the middle of the pack. When they brought the horse back into the stables John, being the racer he is said, "Ok, what do we do to make her faster!" The rich guy and his associates looked at him kinda confused and said, "Well, nothing John, Thats it. He is what he is"
Thats when John said he knew horse racing wasn't for him, he said (his excact words) "Man, I wanted to get a drill out and drill out the horses nose a bit so it could breath better, then saw about an inch off of his inside hoofs to put a little stagger in it.. You know!! Make the bastard run good! They wanted to feed him some grass and say try harder next time... TO HELL WITH THAT! I went back racing cars!"[/quote]


This story puts a smile on my face everytime I think about it
Sounds like some of the older fellas I know.

 

Josh, don't know where you found that, BUT I never lived in Rockville Indiana, and I wasn't born in 1949!!

 

HA! LOL!!! I wondered about that! It was in a souvenir program from the 6 annual hoosier dome indoor midget races I found in a bunch of stuff a guy brought me Sat. Under "driver profiles"

your listed under "Indiana drivers" which is cool..
and it has you starting 3rd row outside of the third "Team Indiana" heat with TONY ELLIOTT next to you, and BOTH JEFF GORDON AND RICH VOGLER in the row behind you!!! Tough company!

 

time machine

 

Looks like Roy has still got it.. A perfect drift and check out the body roll. This is a great thread. I wonder if it is the most viewed and the highest post??.. Keep them coming.. PLEASE........... Bobby..

 

Check out the "Numbers" on the "DRAG CARS IN MOTION" picture thread. impressive. (damn straight liners)

 

1949! Wow, you are one old dude! Does Diane know how old you are?

 

Love the old Studebaker Indy roadster!

 

Take a close look at the right front tire....it has the same amount of english!

 

These are pictures from a collection long gone...

Some of you might have heard rumors about this guy over the years. His name was Rusty. Rusty had a building in Feyettville Ohio, 30 min. East of Cincinnati, that was 100' X 300'!! And it was FULL of old sprinters, modifieds and jalopy's. (mostly sprinters) Rusty's dream was to put together a Museum for open wheel racing. I was in my very early teens when Rusty was going strong collecting. He and my dad worked together finding old Gas station memorabilia for the Museum.
Rusty really liked me, cause I was a 12 year old that had a damn good knowledge of what was what, with old racing stuff.. He would come over to our house and just hang out for long periods of time.

Well, Rusty had a hunch he was'nt gonna live long enough to see his Museum finished, and had a "group" of guys intrusted to finish the museum incase of his death.. around 1994 Rusty died.

Things don't always goes as planned and in the end the collection was sold off, never to be reunited again.. The sale was not well advertised.. We got a call from a nieghbor of Rusty's late that day saying "There's a couple of semi trucks with New York tags loading up everything at Rusty's"

Then it was gone. Occasionally I see a car at a swap meet, or in a collection that I know came from Rusty's.

Rusty had vision.. the building was not well lit.. here is just a glimps of what was in there. Open wheel did a story on it in the early 90's if any of you can find it.. post it.





Joshua Shaw.

 

Yowza, can you say "Gold Mine"? I'm quite sure if I walked into a place like that, the ol' ticker would just give out and I'd fall over dead.
Hope it all ends up in "good hands." I'll start looking through my OWs.

 

I think it has a tag line on the cover saying something about "Sprint cars in the yard" or "mowing around a sprint car"

Goodluck.

 

For those of you who are just getting into this kinda thing.. This is one of the BIBLES of open wheel race car books..





Here are some of the Highlights of the book... (This is just a taste, There are hundreds of color pics)

Theres a lot of "Pit Shots" which are my favorite..



The man getting ready for battle.



Check out the starters in the cars!! ..and how the "rock screens" were made to hinge..













I love this!! No inclosed, double deckers here!! (I hate inclosed trailers)




Remeber our discusion on The HOW special.. Check these pimps out trying to pick up on Mari Hulman and her mom Mary



The HOW spl with white scalops like in the earlier pics on page 1. Check out the HOW team shirt..




Nice tight start.. Check out the guy in the back shading the sun. (or wondering how he got so far back inthe line up!!)





THE HORNE... BAD NEWS... (thats the front stretch.. Langhorne was a BIG circle, and was known for many drivers "last ride")



THE PANZER.. TONY BETTENHAUSEN on the Sacramento Mile in 59' talk about seeing the whites of his eyes!!






and now I'm gonna get all "Artsie" on y'all.. As for composition, color, attitude, layout.. this is one of my all time favorite RACING PICTURES. It just "Talks to you" You know this guy (Bobby Grim) is ready to face death. This picture was taken at THE HORNE. This will be my next painting.. I can't stop looking at this picture. Its why I bought the book. Maybe I'm just goofy.. Maybe you'll agree.




Joshua Shaw

 

Once again,

This thread delivers-Big Time!!!!!!!

 

Joshua,

You showed the pre-race Bobby Grim. My art which I did quite awhile ago shows an Impressionistic view of what he looked like after a rough 100 miler at Duquoin ILL in 1959.

 

Mike Mosley Dayton Ohio, you would think if he lived through this that there would be no way a van flipping in the desert in CA. could ever kill him. Isn't life weird

 

Herman Wise