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

Thank you for the drivers history! Wow, where did you get all that? After I get the copy of that Conn Fair program I will scan and post it for you - Bob I assume you won't mind?

 

that is Bobby Grim walking with Tommy

 

fwiw: Started the 1929 Indy Race as an alternate and finished 19th, after Phil Pardee was eliminated in a crash after qualifying.

(Landau/Keech/Woodburry connection: Of his (Landau) two (Indy and Altoona) recorded AAA starts; in 1929 Keech won and Woodburry starting from the pole spun on the 4th lap and finished last; later that year at Altoona, Keech and Woodburry had the accident that was fatal for Keech and ended Woodburry's driving career.

 

Speaking of Phil Pardee. Does anyone have any info as to where Phil was from, and where he went after running Indy. Thanks. Lonnie

 

"that is Bobby Grim walking with Tommy"

Thanks John.

 

Phil Pardee was from Pasadena (CA), and did quite a bit of racing on the West Coast, mainly at Ascot Speedway. After Indy in 1931, he was the first driver of the Danny de Paolo "Gilmore Lion Special", made famous by Lester Spangler in 1932.

 

Made some progress this weekend, it was finally warm enough to work a little. I finally got my hood molded, trimmed, and mounted. Now it is really starting to come together. Next up is a windshield and a dash.

 

Bill Lindau was a motorcycle racer, allegedly in Florida, before he took to autoracing in around 1925. He was quite successful in local Pennsylvania dirt track races, and began competing in lesser board track races in 1927. In 1929, a Pittsburgh grocer by the name of Fred Hufnagel financed an ex-Tommy Milton Miller for mechanic Roy Painter, also from Pittsburgh, and they got Lindau to drive it at Indy and a few board track events in Pennsylvania. As has been stated, he was 34th in qualifying at Indy, but got lucky and made the big dance, only to drop out at one third of the distance.

Later, in August of 1930, Lindau had the nerve to sue his car owners for breach of contract, asking $50,000 in damages!!! Actual loss was cited as $270, with $49,730 charged for "indignities to professional pride and social standing in the automotive racing world". His career fizzled out after that...

 

Years of hard, sweatin' research! Thanks for the offer!

 

Speaking of lions; he went on to play 'himself' with a host of other drivers in The Crowd Roars.

and from our friend Michael Ferner: re Old Racing Cars - Miller 91s
‘10′ the Sampson/Pardee #44 car
The most obscure of the lot, this car was reportedly equipped with a water-cooled supercharger, and both Ralph de Palma and Dave Evans practiced in it at Indy in ‘29, before Phil Pardee easily qualified only to crash the day before the race

 

Just wondering if anyone out there knows if there is any racing video footage from Golden Gate Speedway in tampa?

 

Does anyone know anything of his later career as a pavement supermodified competitor? John S.

 

BZNEIL>>Good looking car nice proportions. Keep posting the progress.

 

Can anyone ID driver in Gene Besecker's #99 in Post #8866???
mlight9.

 

SURE! I'll make copies of others that have "Bill" Holmes listed. Just send your address in a PM. Welcome to the HAMB! If you have any info on Bob Swanson I collect it.

 

Michael,

They were having problems with the BB this Afternoon(Sunday). Probably why you had multiple posts.

 

Thanks for the info on Phil Pardee. We ran a Sprint Car out of Salt Lake for many years until several years ago with Rick Pardee as driver, and was asked many times if Rick was related to Phil. We knew Phil had run at Indy, but did not know where he came from. Thanks again.

 

Gentlemen,

Ken Coles has updated his sprinter photos again! Must see stuff on there.

Such as:

http://www.colesracingphotos.com/Cars/Sprint-Cars/10499404_5f2iA#765910190_HXh8e-X2-LB




http://www.colesracingphotos.com/Cars/Sprint-Cars/10499404_5f2iA#765910190

He updated the Midget section as well.

This baby has a cage,but too good not to show-Bobby Grim in the Honker II 1970 Duqoin.

http://www.colesracingphotos.com/Cars/Midget-Cars-1950s-60s/10717160_arkcK#767496285_V56uR-X2-LB

 

Can someone ID this photo. I know its Ruttman but the car is the Malloy but in Aggie
colors. I never saw it like this. Would the # have been 98???
mlight9.

 

That would be Jay Woodside. The track is New Bremen, Ohio

 

mlight-number on the Aggie car should be 98jr.


I have an Imlay photo of that car from 54-the hood was changed,but it is the same car as in your photo.


This is not the Malloy Pankratz. This car has a normal sprint car tail,although you can`t see that in your photo.

Have to head for work. I`ll try to send you a side shot of the same car tonite.

 

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BZNEIL.......that car is so cool....please keep us up to date.

 

D. Carter up followed by Rutt in the Malloy "black deuce"

 

Resto of Jake Vargo sprinter @ present. Awaiting arrival of chrome parts & re-
installion. Will post again when finished,
mlight9.

 

...and, (I Think) a little later in it's life, owned by the Hoffman Family.

Different hood, same front bumper.

 

It can get a little confusing, Aggie owned both the Pankrantz built #2 and the Kuzma built 98 jr. at the same time and then sold the #2 to Malloy in 1950. The 98 is the car that Cecil Green was killed in at Winchester 1951.

 

I got a binder of reasonably good photocopies about Red Maddox a couple years ago from drag racer Wayne "the Peregrine" King at a car show up in Abbotsford, BC. He knew I liked the old sprint car stuff.

Does anyone have more information on Red Maddox. Seems like he raced around the 1934/35 era, as far south as Ascot/Gilmore in California and up into the Oregon area, possibly Seattle. I see tracks like San Jose, Oakland, Yakima and Gresham (OR) in the information I have but maybe others have more.

No doubt anything anyone has is just part of research done on other things. Red wasn't a champion or anything, maybe won a few races and had some fun. Any further information would be great.

Here are a few scans of what was given to me. Thanks to Wayne King.

 

I've just rejoined the thread after being away for a few months-
Anyone seen the new Ron Pollock book about midget racing in Northern Ohio?
Lots of great photos and my late friend Barney Barnes is on the cover.
I still would like to know what became of his restored HD midget.

 

Defiantly! So is the Hoffman 98 the same car, or am I wrong?