Hey Race fans... "Millers at the Mile"....! Every year I somehow miss this "Must See" event because I'm wandering around Iola... but not this year....!<table style="margin: 0px auto; width: 500px;"><tbody><tr><td> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- Absolute Content Rotator: BEGIN --> 2009 Other Events Harry A. Miller Club Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car Event Friday-Saturday, July 10-11 Spectacular Event Includes Exercising of Timeless Classics The Harry A. Miller Club meet is one of the finest vintage open wheel events in the country. Formed by Milwaukeean David Uihlein, the club celebrates the genius of Wisconsin native Harry Artemus Miller of Menomonie. The Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car Event has grown into a spectacular convergence of collectors of classic open wheel machinery of racings Golden Age. Miller-built race cars and race engines dominated the Indianapolis 500 and board tracks across America in the 1920s and 1930s. Millers craftsmanship and ingenuity produced an amazing lineage of 39 Indianapolis 500-winning race cars. The Miller Meet celebrates the classics of Indy Car racing, including impeccably restored pre-WWI Indy Cars that are true works of art, including Marmons and Mercers, Duesenbergs and Millers of the 1920s and 1930s. Sponsored by Briggs & Stratton Corporation, each year, dozens of enthusiasts display and exercise their restored machines on the historic one-mile oval. It is much more than a car show, as many of the priceless cars breathe life and are driven around Americas Legendary Oval! <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- Absolute Content Rotator: END --> <table style="margin: 0px auto; width: 500px;"> <tbody><tr> <td> Schedule Registration Tickets News <script language="JavaScript" src="http://milwaukeemile.web180.com/admin/contentRotator/absolutecr.asp?c=31"></script> Friday, July 10 Pits Open 11:00 a.m. Cars On Track 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Satruday, July 11 Pits Open 8:00 a.m. Cars On Track 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Schedule subject to change </td></tr></tbody></table> Who else is going???
I've gone the past two years and plan on going again this year. Both days if possible, Saturday for sure. This is one of the best events I've gone to. You're allowed to walk through the pits, see the cars up close and talk to the owners, most who are very friendly and more than willing to tell you the history of their cars. The sound of these cars going around the track is awesome and I've seen some of the owners give rides to the bystanders. Well worth the price of admission.
I heard this is the last year the track will be open,they ran it down the crapper(going bankrupt)I also heard the miller guys wont run unless they have been paid upfront because of the track going tits up.Is this true?
if you are going to the Millers at Milwaukee Mile at Wisconsin State Fair Park enter at Gate 5, off of South 84th St go to tunnel under the track for INFIELD PARKING gates open 11am Friday, 8am Saturday TRACK TIME noon-4pm Friday, 10am-4pm Saturday spectator admission-$25.00-2 day pit pass this event is put on by The Harry A. Miller Club, the Club is independent of the promotion group that does the NASCAR etc races at the Milwaukee Mile. The independent promoter has some financial difficulties but those difficullties have no effect on the Miller Meet. The promotor does not pay the Miller cars to race. The Miller Meet is on as scheduled.
Kids can be in the pits and last year I saw one of the car owners invite a couple of kids to sit in his car so their parents could take photos.
Wish I was closer.......I have wanted to go to this for the last 8 years and the Moon did not line up......It is sorta' like Bonneville and my other events of the year......I have to go one of these days. Chris
Hey you old bastard , if you get up early enough to get there, take some photos and post them. You do have a camera , don't you? And know how to use it?
your not joking look what happened to Hales corners speedway and they had a private entrepreneur that wanted to step up and move it, he even had a site picked out and they turned him down.
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