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

January 28, at the Indy Fairgrounds Champions' Pavillion & South Pavillion, Hall A...

http://www.shoestringracing.com/

 

Thanks! Looking forward to it.
john burton

 

Hey Van May, listen in at about 17 minutes

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1926...el.com/showthread.php?t=55742&medium=19264658

 

Great pics
Thanks

 

Thank you all for the help and encouragement over the last year.....you are all friends and gentlemen.....I wish you and your families a happy Christmas,and hope to see you all next year......oh I've just been offered 8 legs of venison for $150......do you think this is too deer?......

 

Have a Great Christmas Everyone. I'm heading out till Sunday.

Joshua Shaw

 

Merry Christmas and safe travels,Josh and all who frequent this thread!

 

Doing more digging thru photos. 1954 New Bremen Speedway.

 

Slobitz,
Anybody who attended CRA races in 1962 recognizes that car.
Colby Scroggins won ten CRA main events and the 1962 Championship in the Kenny Worth Chevy.
By the way it looks a lot like the car in your barn, behind the Sweikert car.

 

Merry Christmas to all! Josh, I love that picture. Even though we don't run sprinters, I'm going to post it on the Corbin website as a Christmas card.

 

Stan,tried to PM you through HAMB Re Kurtis Midget. I dont think it went through,if not could you PM me your Email Adress ,Merry Christmas KKx125

 

A little more than a year ago, I was looking for information about Cyclone Quick Change Rear Ends for a sprint car I am restoring. I ran came across Cyclone Kevan here on the H.A.M.B and he provided me with all the information I needed.

We I was young, we would go to the midget races in Southgate and afterwards go to Johnny's Broiler in Downey to start the party. I believe sometime in 2001 Johnny's Broiler was demolished by an errant tenant. The story about it's resurrection is all over the H.A.M.B., and, for the first time in 10 years I took the occasion to go there, now under the name Bob's Broiler. (Bob's Big Boy)

Cyclone Kevan and Johnny Gee were at the very least critical players in the restoration process. While I was there last Saturday night, and purely by happenstance, I ran into Kevan and we talked about the restaurant and Cyclone/Cook Machine for about an hour.

The reason for this post is to urge everyone in Southern California to make a trip to Downey and support the place! They did an excellent job on the restoration and it's a fun place to be. On Wednesdays and Saturdays the hold cruise night, with plenty of nice iron. Make a night of it!

 

The Sun Sets on 65 years of Continuous Racing at Orange Show Speedway-San Berdo, CA.

Photo by Laurence Deutsch

Article in Racing West by Jim Short:

SAN BERNARDINO, California — – There apparently will be no stock car racing at Orange Show Speedway in 2012.
California Event Management officials Mark and Bonnie Brinksma were informed by e-mail Nov. 23 that the management of the National Orange Show Events Center had “decided to take an alternative route and the track will not be available for next year. There will be no stock car racing at the Speedway next year.”
Mark Brinksma, who had been working with NOS general manager Dan Jimenez and potential sponsors to plan a 2012 season of approximately 20 events, said he and wife Bonnie were stunned when they were informed of the NOS decision in e-mails from Executive Assistant and Board of Directors liaison Maureen Murphy.
The Brinksmas withheld any announcement regarding the speedway to have time to explore their options at OSS and elsewhere in the area and the be sure they could remove all their equipment from the speedway without interference.
Mark Brinksma said he thinks the decision is attributable to the fact the contract CEM signed in February included options for 2012 and 2013. He said “the only way to keep us out was by closing the track,” and in making that decision NOS management has shown “a complete disdain and disregard for the racing community that has supported them for over 60 years.”
If the unilateral decision by NOS management is final and the persistent rumors of racing being curtailed at Irwindale Speedway prove valid, area drivers could be left without a paved oval short-track in 2012.
“We need the racing community to stick together,” Brinksma said. “Orange Show management and the track are not the racing community. We need the racers to stay together and look at moving everything somewhere else, find a place where we can lay out a track and put up some bleachers and go racing.
“It would be grass roots, flat-track racing. It wouldn’t be a case of breaking ground and building a new track, not in this economy. It will take the support of the whole community to pull it off. There are a lot of people in our pits with the knowledge and the equipment it takes to get things done.
“We’ve been talking to some people and we’re looking for areas that might work. We’ll be glad to keep working on it if the racers are interested. We just need to know how they feel and what they think.”
It’s obviously not something the Brinksmas were anticipating when they began planning for next season.
The initial e-mail from Murphy, sent just before 9 a.m. on Nov. 23, said: “It has been roughly four weeks since our meeting and we still have not heard from you regarding the 2012 racing season. I know Dan spoke to Mark and he stated that he needed a couple extra days to speak with sponsors, however that was two weeks ago. With that being said, unfortunately we have decided to take an alternative route and the track will not be available for next year. We would like to thank you for all your hard work this year at the speedway and wish you luck with all your future endeavors. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the NOS. Have a nice weekend.”
The second e-mail, in response to an inquiry from Bonnie Brinksma, said: “Yes, you are correct. There will be no stock car racing at the Speedway next year.”
Mark Brinksma said that around October 31st he had informed Jimenez they needed to consult with a sponsor who was out of the area before finalizing dates, but that “at no time was there ever a deadline set by NOS for talks about the speedway.” As late as November 10th, Bonnie Brinksma wrote to NOS requesting the list of dates and discussed additional dates.
Orange Show Speedway, on the southern edge of the Events Center grounds, is a banked, paved quarter-mile oval. Its inaugural race was held on May 1, 1947, and it has been used as a motor sports facility without interruption since then. That span of 65 years makes it the oldest continuously-operated track in the state.
In recent years, however, schedules for the next racing seasons at the historic track had not been finalized until December or later. In 2009, the agreement between Rick McCray and NOS wasn’t finalized until mid-February. Again this year, when CEM replaced McCray’s Best in the West Racing, the contract wasn’t signed until mid-February.
For more information, and to let CEM know your thoughts on relocating to a new facility, contact Mark or Bonnie Brinksma by e-mail at CaliforniaEventManagement@hotmail.com. Updates and more information will be available starting tomorrow on our website, www.californiaspeedjams.com.
Source: Jim Short

 

Monkaz, you have got good eyes! It is a streched Kurtis midget chassis X1. Had some great drivers in it before Colby Scroggins

 

I believe it was "stretched" by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes, two Kurtis Kraft employees.

 

Merrry Christmas to all!

Oh and Josh this is a non cage Christmas Card thread

 

This is what the Willard Battery Champ Dirt Car looked like before Joe Fiore did his magic.

1. The picture taken at Calistoga 1986, it was owned by Flory Filipitch and Bob Thomas. The cage was removed before car was sold to Joe. people in pic. are Flory, Bob and me.

2. The car after Joe's restoration.

Merry Christmas to all. Bill

 

Looks 100% beter after Joe did hisw magic on it.

 

At least 100% better !!

 

We're leaving the Mississippi Gulf Coast and heading to Denver for Christmas. We were there last Christmas to see our son, and believe it or not, he's having us back! Since we grew up in east central Ohio, snow is a must for Christmas. On top of Pikes Peak (3 miles higher than here) my head felt like a VW Beetle. Rootie said that was normal. Maybe this year we'll stay in the foothills and drink. Ok, we'll eat some, too. Also, if any of you watch the Sugar Bowl this year, look in section 537 for a little fat yankie wearing an LSU shirt, that'll be me. I realize it's Michigan and Va Tech, but I can't swing BCS Champ tickets. I still have to represent the Bayou Bengals. My son is heading to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on New Year's Eve. He's a Cincy grad. Go Bearcats! Merry Christmas everybody! I'll be thinking about you all while we're in the Mile High. Rootie - if you live close to Highland's Ranch, PM me. Maybe we'll bring you a Coors.

 

Monkaz.
It was built by Johnnie Parsons and Tom Barnes while they worked at Kurtis`. Johnnie Parsons, Jimmy Bryon, Pat Flaherty and Ray Prosser drove it for Tom Barnes. It started life with a four banger then a V8 Studebaker, a hemi then a chevy. Hank Henry crashed it at Phoenix in 1963. Kenny Worth put it on the roof of his pluming shop till Joe hunt bought it. It then sat in Ron Wards shop till Hunts stuff was sold to Thompsons in Pa. that is where I picked it up.

 

Merry
Christmas
and a Healthy & Happy New Year
to all.
For those of you who will be on the road,
keep it off the wall.​

 

Does anyone have an original pair of Halibrand 3 inch hub pullers? If so, can you post a picture?

 

Lloyd Ruby tribute-

Dirt cars will be in a later installment.

 

Really enjoy this site!

 

You wanna borrow mine?

 

Brian 26 Thank you for the video of Lloyd Ruby. One of the best against some of the best.

 

I'll vouch for Joe! Honest as the day is long.

 

Thank you