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

Great Pictures... im putting some Midget shots up at my site...

Username... SEEBURGREPAIR...

 

Volusia County Speedway about 1981.... 48 KK makes CORA A main...
has a 225 Cu in Chevy2.... Took Les Scott quite a few laps to get around me .. ahaha...
Then i smacked the 4th turn wall....

 

Volusia County 1981 .. Big ole 48 KK with 225 chevy2....

took awhile to get it under control... tires like rocks...

But we made the A main...

Passed Kenyon with his V8 Hoettles Suzuki in the heat race...

He sounded like a SIREN....when i went by him....

 

Rich was great.. He came to Two of my Promotions.. I asked and he said.. "ill be there" no problem.. Never asked for any thing special.. He said " I just want to beat Heydenreich ".....came close each time..
The 3rd time he said he would come and race was at My show at Wayne county Speedway... the Wed after the SAt.. he died...
Never made it of course ... and i didnt feel like promoting anything for a long long time...
Vogler was one of the few REAL RACERS who ...came ... raced... and never once complained about anything...! or asked for show money... Tho i paid him....
I just couldnt announce HIM ahead of time as.. some drivers wouldnt show up then....
We ran a show at East Bay Raceway... Midgets with Wings... Richie came over and said he wanted to run with us... i said you dont have a wing....HE said.. " i dont need one " ).....He got 2nd and might have passed HEYDENREICH .. who won... if there was just one more lap....!!
Lifes just tooo damn short.....

 

Rats. forgot to post QUOTE... above Vogler story was in reply to someone somwhere in all this...

 

Here's my second post, some sprint pics from Williams Grove.

 

Thats some great stuff Ron!! Love to see more!!

 

WOW! Great pix!..... April 1964....... The shot of the Wergland Chevy and Johnny White's Weinberger Chevy is a great photo. White's career ended two months later, when he crashed the Weinberger car at Terra Haute, only a few days after winning "rookie of the year" at INDY. Whose in the Wergland???? Marshman???

 

You guys might want to check out the new Kurtis Indy roadster we're doing. It will be powered by a brand new, built from scratch, supercharged "NOVI" V8. Engine builder, Steve Farkley, is using two OFFY midget blocks mounted to a new 90 degree V8 crankcase.

Have a look!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/album.php?albumid=144





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Mac, I think it is Bob Mathouser in the Wergland car. Definititly not Bobby Marshman.

 

Seeburgrepair, you're right about Rich never complaining. After we smoothed out the ripples and sealed the IRP oval in the late 80s, I asked him if it was better, and he said, "I never thought it was too bad before."

 

Just a few more, champ cars at Langhorne.

 

Don Cameron in that picture is the only person to ever get killed in one of my dads cars

 

wow thats about 75 cubic inches to big to have be legal

 

Good Day Gentlemen. My name is Joe. I am Ray Gross's grandson. I just wanted to let you know that he passed away on Tuesday afternoon in Louisville. I also wanted to thank you for remembering him in a kind way. He was a good man who loved racing and he will be missed.

 

Thank you, Joe. Judy Ates e-mailed Jim and I about it and I think you might find it posted a page or two earlier. Thanks again.

 

Those Langhorne pictures are incredible!!

 

Yes they are!

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Went to the Indy Open wheel Auction this morning. It was way down.. as was last year.. But, I got what I needed so, I can't complain too much!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

Tommy Hinnershitz. I believe Reading, but not sure...

 

Anyone have any info on the "Vaboril" sprint car at the Museum Of Amercan Speed? (AKA The Speedway Museum)
(see car here)
http://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Collections/Vehicles/Voboril1.shtml

Looking for more info, and other photos someone may have taken??

 

The Vaboril is the coolest ever i have seen, i drroool all day- i have those pic printed and posted all over my desk...

 

Ron Kramer, great pictures from Williams Grove and Langhorne. I just watched the Dick Wallen flick that had that Champ Car race at Langhorne.

I think that is Hank Rodgers Jr in the white 20 something. The guy in the red drivers suit and straw hat is Jimmy Maguire.

Are you the Ron Kramer that ran sprints in the east???

 

That is definitely Reading, but I think that is Johnny Thomson

 

You may be right. Sorry.

 

Al, I agree, but it looks like that might be Tommy in the dust.

 

Some of the displyed cars at the Wheels of America Museum in Allentown, PA

 

thanks for the pics...what about the "project" behind the VitaFresh car?

 

Its a display of Hiram Hillagis's shop which was located about 3 miles from the Museum

 

Buster Warke and Sam Traylor

 

Could the indoor arena be the Armory on franklin Ave. in the Bronx?? Re the Indy car & midget, I think the Indy car is the same car driven @ Wms. Grove when killed. At that time the car was owned by Jack Robbins.