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John, The A1 car driven by Bob Huebner is the Carter Chevy. The Fike Plumbing Chevy became the #99 Pestana Lang Chevy that was driven by Dee...
In post # 16958 I questioned the long held belief that the #98 Pestana and Lang Chevy that was owned by Sherman Cleveland and Johnny Anderson was...
Joshua, No, Mutt Anderson, the future owner of the car, is wearing the white tee shirt and he is standing next to the man in the dark shirt.
Eddie Sachs in the Gus Hoffman Offy.
To Flubyu, Van Johnson was still in California for part of 1956. Here is a picture of Van in the George Newnam V8-60 at the 1956 Gardena race you...
The former Gib Lilly V8-60 as it appeared after being purchased by Eddie Bourgnon. The great Ted Tappett in the Bourgnon Offy at Deer Park L.I. 1947.
The Gib Lilly midget was the second K.K. midget to appear, debuting on Mar.17,1946 at the L.A. Coliseum. The two tone blue car was equipped with...
Ken, Trenton wasn't paved until 1957.
Bob Sall in the Buck Wheeler Offy at Trenton in 1947.
MarioFanKri, You wanted to see a picture of Mario Andretti in Myron Caves Offy. This is a picture of him at Allentown on 8/6/1966.
Bob, Here is another photo of the #66 Harry Meyer Offy. The driver is unidentified. Buck Whitmer is in the Balch #1. The track is Gilmore, the...
Jim, You are absolutely right about the Ritter Offy, as this picture clearly shows, Johnny Ritter's car had an "R" in the front pusher. The "M"...
The #24 Brenn car was the Johnny Ritter Offy: the "M" is puzzling. The "K" in the #7 Hespell Offy designates this car as the former # 17 Kernan...
Danbury Racearena ARDC action from 1957. Len Duncan#9 races wheel to wheel with Bobby Marshman#7 followed by Tony Romit#2, Roger Bailey#18 wheel...
I did not take the photos, they are from my collection. It is strange that the photo of Lloyd Christopher caught your attention, I was hesitant...
The photo I posted of Carl Williams shows him in the Shilala sprint car you own. Whoever said Ernie Ruiz only used a number 65 on his cars was in...
Here is another photo of Lloyd Christopher. The photo is quite poor but it shows clearly the Sam Brown belt. The car is the Caccia Offy, the year...
Here's the real deal! Carl Williams at Reading driving the Ruiz sprinter in 1960.
I don't have any, "astute comments", about Sam Brown belts but I do have an observation. I believe the first driver to employ the use of a Sam...
The information contained in the Official Entries agrees with the information I posted, so what is the problem?
The car number is 66. In Jack fox's 1947 AAA records it is identified as a light blue Kuzma Offy owned by Harry Meyer.
I believe this might be a photo of a Kuzma/Richter owned by Harry Meyer. I believe the driver is "Corky" Benson, the year is 1947 and the track...
Here's the real deal - Johnny Ritter in his own Offy.
That car was built in 1948 by Eddie Kuzma for J.C. Agajanian. If it is not the first, it is one of the first , purpose built tube frame sprint...
If you really want to pick nits, his name was Johnny Pawlowicz. His father was Russian and his mother was Austrian.
Gus Hoffman painted the old Agajanian 98 Jr. sprint car black with a number seven like his famous midget that Eddie Sachs drove. The year was 1960.
I was hoping your father was in the picture - glad to have brought back some good memories!
Mutt Anderson was the chief mechanic on the Hoffman car and that is him in the white tee shirt with the blue lettering in the photo on the left...
Rex "Squeeky" Easton in the Podriznik Offy at Lake Hill Speedway in Missouri August 12, 1948.
Vel Meletich owned the car Allen Heath drove. If memory serves me it was Omar Danielson, Parnelli Jones car owner in CJA, who helped sort out the...
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