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

Right You are, Mark won and Gary was second.

 

Hope you enjoy this one- tribute to Texas drivers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCJA3m-bUeg

 

"Mike Brannan" showing em how it's done!

 

outstanding!!!

 

Duke Dinsmore, Schoof/Offenhauser in 1947

Bob Tattersall, Melcher/Chevrolet in 1957

Jimmy Davies, Leighton/Riley in 1949

 

Okay, guess I'll leave it alone. Didn't want to push the limits, but you can see how it fits.


I'm working on a badass Foyt tribute now. Some won't like it, but it will have an edge, and just maybe land on the mark.

AJ -if you're reading this, it's meant to be a compliment.

 

Awesome package... had my adrenaline pumpin' and my right foot matted!
PK

 

A few more for Rich before I head to work.

Jerry Nemire.



Karl Busson.



The Al Hamilton #77 in Blue.



Gary B Toby Tobias and winner Mitch Smith 1971 WG USAC

 

Some 70s URC at Flemington...Rich

 

Here's some more....

 

two guys who learned at pine brook a little one tenths mile track where a home depot stands today one of the best training tracks ever to exist many champions in many divisions raced there including someone you may have heard of Mario Andretti

 

"What was the West Coast Racing Association in 1953?"
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=449227
This was just posted as a new thread, any ideas?

 

Who was driving the #6 at Penn National?
Thanks

 

Probably Don Nordhorn,but I`m not 100 percent sure.
Car 6 didn`t make the results. I also wonder who was in the Yellow #14....

I believe the photos are from the March race.

Here are results from 1972 Penn National USAC

March 1972

A Feature
1: Bettenhausen, Gary (1 - Davis) 2: McElreath, Jim (23) 3: Dickson, Larry (2 - Leffler) 4: Parsons, Johnny (10 - Jones) 5: Masters, Charlie (81 - Moffett) 6: Sessions, Sammy (4 - Amerling) 7: Saldana, Joe (25 - Easton) 8: Walkup, Bruce (29 - Seymour) 9: Waldo, Lennie (19 - Gutzweiler) 10: Kunzman, Lee (5 ) 11: Bigelow, Tom (12 - Smith) 12: Weld, Kenny (9 - Weikert)


Penn National Speedway, Grantville,PA
Date of Race: 7/1/1972
View Race Notes
A Feature
1: Weld, Greg (9 - Weikert) 2: Kunzman, Lee (5) 3: Tobias, Dick (7) 4: Howerton, Jackie (27 - King) 5: Dickson, Larry (2) 6: Jones, Bubby (11 - Blacker) 7: Puterbaugh, Bill (32 - Lefevre) 8: Cassella, Billy (22 - Forberg) 9: Cannon, Larry (72) 10: Walkup, Bruce (29 - Seymour) 11: Beale, Rollie (3 - Kilman) 12: Saldana, Joe (25 - Easton) 13: Allen, Chuck 14: Bigelow, Tom 15: Parsons, Johnny 16: Masters, Charlie 17: Busson, Karl 18: Bigelow, Tom 19: Snider, George 20: Harrison, Darl (44 - Maloy)

 

Spike,

After checking my USAC yearbook-Don Nordhorn was driving the #6 Van Winkle Sprint in 1972 and finished 7th in points.

Also my own question on the #14-seems to be the Steve Stapp Sprinter that was driven by George Snider in 1972. Not sure if that is Ziggy in the photo...

 

Thanks Buildy.

 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Kempgens
Right You are, Mark won and Gary was second.

Hey Billy ..

Right you are.

I knew some who excelled in full midgets &/or sprints who often said .. 'If you want to stay sharp, you gotta run the TQ's at Pinebrook (NJ).'

BTW -- both Gary & Mark (Gimmler) continue to do well in sprints in Florida. Gary has a brand new car to run this season (his first "brand new" ride ever). The race mentioned that he finished second in, might have been the shake down run for that ride (with Gary's home built engine in it).

Now if you want to feel OLD .. Marks son is about to start out in TQ's !!!!!

 

A little more NW history.
In 1948, Tacoma car owner Leo Dobry dropped 20 large on a brand new KK2000/Offy, hired Jack Beckley to wrench it and towed it around in a glass enclosed trailer. Other than McGrath putting it on the front row at Indy 49 and Geo. Hammond winning Pikes Peak in 52 it didn't have a lot of success and, it seems, was only raced rather sporadically until around 55.

 

Tonight's episode of " REAL AMERICAN IDOL"

AJ Foyt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2WR38-Scs

 

Awsome job !!
Every time I see him throw his gloves after the 77 500, I wish my arms were 5 feet longer...I just missed catching them.

 

rabs32,
Again, thanks for the great photos! In the upper right corner is Buck Buckley#2A in the former City of Syracuse car the year before I bought it. Thanks for the memories.

 

Wynns 1, your welcome!!!,I'm so glad I can help keep the memories alive for you and everyone that has viewed this thread with the photos from me and my families collections, Thanks.....Rich

 

I finally dugup the after pics of Busson's Reading USAC crash. The chassis was badly broken as evident looking at the cage. Karl was very lucky...

 

Some more URC action from Flemington....Rich

 

Second half....

 

Heres some color shots....

 

as usual great pics rich should be harry benjamin in the shaw 2 bill wentz in the 3 leroy felty in the 1 not sure about the other two

 

Cool URC action-what year would that be? 73-74 maybe?

 

On seeing that the 1969 deadline isn't strictly adhered to any longer, may I ask the community for help on this one? This car was campaigned by Len Tetrault out of the Chicago area in the late seventies. I know that John Lucas of Advance (IN) failed to qualify it for a 1977 USAC show at Terre Haute, and later that year Tom Mislich of Odell (IL) took a couple of top ten finishes in open comp events in Georgia, and possibly qualified for one or two WoO shows at Eldora the next year. I can't be sure, but Bob Hale of Calumet City (IL) may have raced it in the early eighties at Santa Fe and perhaps other tracks of the region.

These pictures were posted by a fellow on another board, and he claims to be the guy posing in it, but since he has a propensity for tall stories this may not be him at all. Anyway, the car is clearly a bit of an antique for its time, and that fellow said it was ten years old when the pictures were taken, and that it was driven by Bubby Jones and Larry Cannon in its heyday. I know that both drove Midgets for Tetrault earlier in the seventies, but the only Sprint Car that I can find driven by both is the 1972 Richard Blacker USAC #11 "Tri-R Builders", and I can't find pictures of it. Anyone know anything about this car, or have a picture of the Blacker car? Thanks.