Features VINTAGE SPRINT CAR PIC THREAD, 1965 and older only please.

Some more recent examples:

 

Here's one for TDC:

 

Thanks very much Rootie. I have'nt seen that one yet. What magazine is that from?

Josh

 

Feb 95 Open Wheel.

 

1948 KK that ran at B'ville back in the 80s, went 157 mph in 88.

 

Here are a few shots of my midget on its way to the Cincinnati Cavalcade. Not quite a vintage hauler, but better than being in an enclosed trailer.

 

Looking better all the time Neil!

 

A beauty of a sprint car here.

 

Josh, Gene & BZNEIL,

Anxious to see all of the vintage stuff from the show...please include some quarter midget stuff, too!

Thanks!

 

Rootie...Looks like Mutt Anderson's car. Is that Roger McCluskey in the b/w?

 

That is Gordon White in his OFFY, Car won an AACA first place for the restoration years before it saw Bonneville. He Vintage Races it with sports cars as well.

 

Yes it is, with Sammy Sessions on the outside at Winchester 1965.

 

It's not Nordhorn but could be Mickey Shaw
Butch Evans

 

I think this was the last "OFFY" sprint to run USAC with JP driving.
Butch Evans

 

Just a little trivia here... the #67 Sprint car in the bacjground of this pick was owned by Bob East Sr., father of Bob East of BEAST.

 

Don Hawley in a Bob East sprinter, Ascot 68.

 

Thanks for the post, Rootie, That was a beautiful race car, I remember it being candy red with gold leaf numbers.

 

JIMG, I agree w/you on Mike. I had pleasure of helping him in pits @ Hershey USAC in '69. After helping him load car, sat in his camper & gave me a cold one while he wz interviewed by Economaki. A very enjoyable eve. ml9.

 

This is my uncle Willie Nunez collecting the hardware from from the trophy queen in the early 70's at Manzy. Doing the announcing was promoter Keith Hall. The car was a chassis my uncle built along with six others that he called Cactus Chassis. A buddy of mine has the only remaining Cactus car left, one that my uncle built for Joe Clay when he lived in El Paso, Tx. Joe Clay went on to open a racetrack in Arkansas.



Here he is with the Cactus car when it was new at the old Horizon Speedway outside of El Paso,Tx. in 1968:

 

This is another friend of mine named Alex "Red" Aguayo in a sprint car in Roswell, NM. in June of 1958. The car was powered by a 235 Chevy six. Red still comes by my shop every couple of weeks to bench race, he is 73 years old.

 

I made the 225 mile drive to the Cincinnatti car show to see this car. Too freakin' cool. I consider myself very luck to have been able to see this car in person. I was amazed at the simplicity/sophistication of the car.

I did not realize that the Miller-Fords had independent front and rear suspensions.

Does anybody have any pictures or drawings that shows how the suspensions function?

A lot of the magic is hidden by the farings on the control arms.

 

Well, here is a pic of, what may be, that very same car with the OFFY mounted backwards, hooked up to the Miller front drive transaxle. I will look around a little more and find something without the fairings, although the fairings are, I believe, a structural part of the suspension linkage.

 

Don't know if it carried over to the 30s cars, but in the late 20s Miller used a DeDion, inboard brake, FWD setup.

 

The "fairings" appeared to be the upper and lower control arms. But I could not figure out how the spindles pivoted and rotated.

 

That is correct..... There is a universal or CV joint at each end of the drive halfshaft and the fairing is the total structural swing arm on all four corners. I will stop by the Speedway museum tomorrow and have a closer look.

 

The Prison Car - Photos I took at the 2008 Jackson Speedway, Michigan Old Timers Reunion.

Have a good day...see you at the races

Midwest Connection
Rich - Arnold, Missouri

 

Here are some of the pics I took today of the front suspension



rear view of same corner. There are leaf springs inside there.


upper a-arm mount as seen from under the hood

 

Rear suspension has a tube subframe where the upper and lower arms mount as well as two quarter eliptic spring packs per corner.

Digital cameras are cool!

 

'Isn't that Fred himself (the car w/the Offy mounted backwards) in the picture? If it is, I wish macmiller could have been alive back then to tell him, "Fred! There's got to be an easier way to do this!".......I will say this though, it was all a tremendous work of art. And thanks Flipper for the incredible close-ups.

 

Actually, I believe its Lou Welch himself.