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

That is a good looking car! Any idea of its whereabouts now?

 

wish I knew

 

Hello everyone !!
Been hanging out in the shadows of this thread for a few months and now that I'm all caught up from page 1 to present I'd like to say that this is what it's all about ! I'm still blown away that a lot of people still care about this stuff!! I'm here in San Diego , born here , been to most of the tracks with in a 200+ mile radius of here at least a dozen times ( roundy rounds' drag strips and the road courses ) I really look forward to this when I get home from work ! thank you !
Later D.W.W. 56

 

Yes they do. It's been a long time coming.

 

MEL JOHNSON

The former promoter at Lawrencburg Speedway.. DO any of you guys have ANY pictures of him? Good face shot is what I need for a memorial shirt I've been hired to do.

Thanks you!

J Shaw..

Oh, also.. went to Pole day at Indy at the last minute. Made a phone call to Harley Gene to see if he had any suggestions on where to sit. He said, Yeap, call me when you get there"...

Well, he got us kinda close to the action!

THANKS GENE!!

 

Al,

Ziggy in a Stapp sprinter-Thumbs up!

 

Did you get your Danica ["Its not MY fault"] t-shirt autographed?

 

Ha!!!! Bet that's a best seller...Might need to invent some strap on attachments for the girl drivers...maybe some of the boys too.

 

Pfitz has the Ziggy Stapp no. 22 sprinter now.

 

Just talked to Don Thomas on the phone. He is in Oklahoma on his way to the 40th Tony Hulman Classic at Terra Haute On Thursday night. There will be some type of reunion. Don was invited by Duke Cook. If any of you have a chance to go stop by and say hi to Don, a real nice guy and he did do the deal in the day!!! If one of you can take a photo, so I can put it in my scrapbook.

 

Racer5c,
Your Dads car is the "baby bowes"car? The last owner was Al Hendrix in Ca. The car was wrecked and sat beside his building for decades before being discarded. About 8 years ago it was reproduced and is currently in N.Y.
Does anyone know where Larry Phitz can get a wheel [Novi] like the one on the LF in the photo?

 

Al, great pic. I have wonderful memories of this car. One night @ Reading, I offered to help Ziggy, he handed me a bottle of polish & a rag. Oh well, it shined for a while.
I will always remember the yellow #22,
mlight9.

 

I have a NOS pair but I`m not givin them up until the Hunt #99 turns into the Hopkins #3

 

Don't hold your breath Bob !

 

And erase all of that original history!?

 

Justin, don't get in the middle of this one !

 

The wheel Pfitz would like, Novi, is for the Stapp sprinter. As in the photo of Snider, that left front wheel shows up on pictures through out the history of the car.

 

How about a Novi?

 

or maybe an Offy?

 

or how about a supercharged Miller?

 

Maybe a 4 cam Ford?

 

Vintage cars from the Speedway today!! Anybody wanna see the rest of the pictures?

 

It's a good thing that's not a serious question. Post'em!

 

posted the rest here, sorry some of the pictures aren't great my battery died and I used my phone for some of them

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50551036@N03/

 

Thanks for the shots from the Speedway, Roy.


Tom

 

Great shots Roy, Thanks !

 

Just read on ASCS web site that sprint car driver Jesse Hockett died today, electrocuted in his shop. R.I.P. Jesse. Way to soon.

 

Yeah, BS-N-SC... that's true. I got the call a min ago. All there saying is that he was killed in a "Freak electrical accident" while loading his spinter for Terre Hautte tomorrow. Bad deal.

God Speed Jesse, you were a gasser!

Here is a video of him surviving a violent flip at Bloomington, then an interview with him about it at the end.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2SMtDdVZU

 

Thanks for the pics Roy!

Sorry to hear about Hockett. After surviving that crash pretty much unscathed then going out like that. What a shame.