I have some photos of the car from the late 40s if that is if any interest. I've always liked the idea of the car after reading about it in Joel Finn's book. Hell, that book made me fall in love with all of the ARCA cars.
There is a book that has lots of fun bits on racing in the NE area pre-war. Can't recall, but will go digging.
The book I was thinking of is "TheAutomobile Club of American in the 1930's - American Road Racing". No pictures of the McMillan Spl., but it does show up in the results in 1938.
yes, I have that one too. it's a bit of "weren't the old days great" , but a great insight as to what it would have been like.
Holy heck. I don't know how I missed this. It's my favorite ARCA car! I can't add anything to what's already been written, but I have had this photo of the car wearing blue-and-yellow California plates saved since long before I knew anything about it.
I've also got these pre-war photos. I don't recall where I found them. This one is labeled as the 1938 Mount Washington Climb to the Clouds in the file name. This one says it's the Roosevelt Raceway Coupe Sport in 1937.
THANK YOU EVERYONE! How could I have missed this thread? I got a ride in that car when Crazy Chris owned it out in California around 1974 then spent 40 YEARS trying to find it. I think is was in a buyout of cars that Mark Smith got, I'll post a photo of in in front of Wes Coopers shop, it had full hood sides at that time. I'm glad Mark Smith gifted it to the REVS, hope it gets to race along side other ARCA survivors. Bob
August 1974, 49 years ago, the car looked so much better back. then. So much has changed in 49 years but that day is still clear in my memory as something that happened yesterday. I took slides back then, need to get them converted to prints so I can share them.
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