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Helped with this sprinter at Salem for the 1969 Joe James Pat O'Connor Memorial race. Bruce Jacobi was the driver and always wondered if this was...
Hey, Gsmed... Tell me about your blue 700 Series LaFrance ramp rod. Do you know where it originally came from or have a serial number for it? I...
Isn't strange that the KK3300 Jim Rathman finished second with at the Speedway in '52 and later was the STC turbine car. Was owned by The...
Tell us more about the Indy 500 and the court injunction. When, whatever, never heard about that.....
Thanks Rootie for your post #19401 on your results on the 1972 DuQuoin Champ Dirtcar race. I was working for Ronnie Burke then and did it ever...
Thanks Roy......
Heard yesterday, the Safety Auto Glass Special was removed from it's long time perch on the Safety Auto Glass co. on Southeastern Ave. in...
Does anyone have a photo of Lee Oldfields rear engine car with all the body on. The only photo I've ever seen of it is like the one posted. I...
Opened my mailbox today and KING Steve Kinser was lookin' at me on the color cover of the new monthly Speed Sport News. They didn't forget about...
I first heard about the tragic Black Sunday in an article by Brock Yates in the January 1965 Car and Driver. A good article about a sad day in AAA...
I belive I read a few months ago in SprintCar & Midget that the Pat Clancy six wheeler later was turned into a sprint car owned by famed Hoosier...
Great work Josh. Can't wait to see the Milton/Miller at the Speedway. Do you folks have a schedule as to when you plan on getting the car to the...
Weld and Fairchild's feature wins I spoke of were the following weekend.
Back to the Weld crash, on April 20th, 1969. to quote USAC news April 25th edition,"Near-disaster struck when the field took the green flag, as...
Here it is friday and I have no Speed Sport News to read. Sad.................
sdluck not sure. You can contact Denny at Hammer Art at 1 317 698-0570.........
[IMG] One of my favorite cars that ever ran at the Speedway was Les Anderson's Kennedy Tank Special. Les drove it in 1948, and Bill Cantrell...
Hey Josh, Here is another photo of the Milton Miller with a different looking radiator shell: [IMG]
Didn't the USAC sprint guys run a 100 laps for the Pat O'connor - Joe James race at Salem, in the old days ,without a fuel stop?
Isn't the Grizzly Brake car the same Kurtis Kraft 500D driven at the Speedway in 1955 and 1956 by Pat O'Connor and in 1957 by Don Freeland? Wonder...
Hey Josh, Thinking about coming down for your show. Where is going to be and what are the times? Thanks in advance................Bruce
Oops, He took over Spider Webbs ride in 1954.
Danny Kladis drove in the 1946 Indianapolis 500. He drove Andy Granatelli former Miller Ford then the Grancor V-8 Special. Danny started 33rd and...
Some one ask a few pages ago about the Impact suits. I work at IMS as a firefighter, well officially we're called track rescue now, and the...
Zakiras garage. [attach] The bench racers weekend group made a road trip Sunday from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. To visit Zakiras garage...
Josh, Thanks for starting this wonderful thread. I've passed alot of time the last few weeks going through it, lots of great memories here. Hope...
What a great thread! I've spent nearly all my free time the past few weeks reading all 488 pages of this. I am pictured here with Warren Wilbur...
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