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Very similar photo showing Weld at IRP where, as you state, he won the 100 lap feature in 1965. But the the original posted photo showing the...
Greg Weld at (I believe) Winchester, Indiana in 1965. The #9 car in the background was driven most of that year by Johnny Rutherford who ended up...
Pretty sure that's actually Joe Weatherly.
This is at Indianapolis for the 500; probably late '20s or early '30s (just a guess; maybe some of you here know for sure). The tradition of...
That's what is known as a "Mud Plugger". They are still popular today in Britain in what is actually known as Sporting Trials. They run slow...
I had to do some digging but this looks like a 100 mile race at Lakewood on November 1, 1953. Herb Thomas was in the #92 and Tim Flock the #91...
That's the mile dirt track at Lakewood Speedway just south of Atlanta, Georgia. There were actually some scenes in the "Smokey and the Bandit"...
Harry Ferguson and Henry Ford had a simple man-to-man handshake "contract" that called for Ford to build the tractors and got the use of...
Bob Bondurant in a Ford GT40 at the 1965 Daytona Continental endurance race. He and teammate Richie Ginther finished third overall. Ken Miles...
Looks like Mike Hawthorn (28) tangling with Tony Brooks in the Vanwall at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix. Brooks recovered to finish in 2nd place but...
Looks like rear drive Novi being built for 1956 Indianapolis 500.
Robert "Skip" Volk in a Chipmunk aerobatic plane. Volk was killed in a 1972 crash although I don't think it was in this aircraft. Maybe someone...
That's definitely a Frank Kurtis style grill on the Ford custom. He used the same grill work on several cars he customized while working at the...
A total of at least 74,242 (some records show over 80,000) US Army Air Corps personnel were killed during WWII. At least 26,000 of those were...
Jim Hurtubise after winning at Langhorne, PA in 1960. Jimmy Bryan crashed fatally on the first lap and some witnesses claimed that the car of...
Jim Clark in his Lotus Ford waits for the start of the 1964 Indianapolis 500. As far as I know that was the only time that Clark ever covered his...
Not 100% sure but those look like four Gerhardt chassis being built for the 1967 Indianapolis 500. Fred Gerhardt and his company built some of...
Rodger Ward had refused to drive at Langhorne as he had never liked the track. Bryan was making a dirt track comeback and asked mechanic/builder...
Looks to be in 1963 although this car ran later. It's a Shelby King Cobra which was actually a Cooper Monaco with a Ford engine. Dave MacDonald...
Looks like Jim Clark winning the 1965 South African Grand Prix.
A.J. Foyt at Riverside in 1965 driving for Holman Moody. He later crashed this car going into Turn Nine after his brakes failed. He broke his...
Looks like Jimmy Murphy at (I think) Beverly Hills in 1920.
Roger Penske in his Zerex Special leading Dan Gurney in a Lotus. This probably at one of the tracks on the 1962 USAC Road Racing Championship...
Looks like it could be Billy Foster leading Gary Bettenhausen in a USAC stock car race; probably around 1965 or '66. Foster was really coming...
Rene Dreyfus probably sometime in the early 1930s. Dreyfus won the 1930 Monaco Grand Prix for Bugatti as well as other races and hill climbs....
Yes it is. I've also put on the brake drum backwards and after loosely putting on the lug nuts used the drum itself as something of a slide...
Looks like Ken Miles leading Foyt at Sebring.
Looks like Maurice Trintignant in the last Bugatti Formula One car. He drove the car in the 1956 French Grand Prix without much success.
A young Jochen Rindt who later won the the 1970 Formula One championship posthumously.
Pedro Rodriguez at Indianapolis in 1963. The car is the former 1961 Cooper Climax that Jack Brabham in that year's 500 although it has been...
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