The Jalopy Journal
A few more, taken by Joe at his shop. And, just for fun, one of Joe driving his beautiful #98.
I'm sure you have your hands full with many issues to resolve, and I'm sure you have lots of good memories tied up in that car. As others have...
The Ruiz/Shilala Travelon Trailer champ car, as well as the Ruiz/Christiansen Travelon roadster (Herk's 1960 149+ MPH car), as well as the...
Yes, but the car wasn't born that way. Originally, in 1958 (the Hopkins/Amick #3), it had hairpins. It also had front-end handling problems which...
Right on, Mac (and Rootie). I know of three times Johnny wheeled the Hunt #99 Lujie champ car: Sacramento 9/28/69, 14/7 (Johnny's first USAC champ...
Hi Mac, I'll be there with my 1959 Watson #16 Simoniz Spl. I'll be traveling with Steve Bonesteel and his #34 Don Thomas roadster sprinter. Don...
And in 1968 (that's right, 1968), Gary Bettenhausen passed the first two phases of his drivers test at the Speedway in the Hunt #47 turning laps...
Hi Rootie, Great photos! Lujie built two new champ cars for the 1958 season. As your photo shows, the Bowes/Boyd/Bignotti #9 burned to the...
A few more words about the Atlas Chrome Spl., mostly lifted from a 12/14/05 NSSN article by Don Radbruch. The car was built in 1935 for Leonard...
Harley, your comments regarding Fred and Caroline Johns -- and Gene Hartley -- are right on the mark. Fred and Caroline are great folks and have...
Hi Guys, The photo in Jerracer's post was taken on October 21, 2006 at the 4th Annual Legends of Ascot Reunion held at Perris Speedway, CA....
Hi Baldtireman (and Hi Joe!), New guy here. But not new to this thread. I recently re-read all the postings just to "catch up". This has to be...
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