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wish we had the story on this

 

I must be young after all, when I watched them in person they had bought all Fords

 

Could be blown radiator hoses on a flathead maybe?

 

does look like steam and i guess they would scatter in all directions to keep from getting burned.
but it looks like they're getting ready to push the car on the right out of harms way

 

Funny, that was the first thing I thought of as well, but I was more generic, I was going with "an overheating flathead Ford V8."

That was a regular occurrence at our local dirt track back when they used to race them. We would see the big ball of steam down in the pits, and Dad said it was just another overheating Ford flathead V8. After they quit racing the old flathead V8s, that didn't seem to happen as often.