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

Bonneville Speed update..

Congratulations to the MILLER/RADTKE Special

WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD HOLDER.

The team set a VOT/VF4 class record this morning of 94 mph. Not as fast as there highest hopes, but the are in the books!

Of coarse... not hard to set a record on an open class, but a win is a win.

Building a record holding Bonneville race car has been a long time goal for me.. Now I just gotta get my ass in the drivers seat, and bump that record next year!

Joshua Shaw

 

Congrats on the win! I'm ready to put a cincy LSR car together Josh I got a stash of parts to start with....... Any who Congrats see ya soon Ryan

 

Josh;

Congrats on the record! All of us here are proud as hell of you.

 

B-Ville record!!!!---you Buckeyes know how to get-er-done.

Salt Fever is extremly contagious beware.

 

Congrats Josh, your workmanship is over the top once again!

 

Congrats, Josh! AWESOME fete!!!!!

 

In western Pennsylvania in the early 1960's,Bob Burris,of Lisbon,Ohio,had some success with a Kurtis-Kraft(I think) indy roadster shortened to run on the dirt tracks as a "Super Modified". When car owner Wilbur Hawthorne decided to buy a Trevis Craft sprinter,it worked so well that he wanted to travel and race more,and Bob wanted to stay home,so Bobby Adamson(from nearby Coraopolis,Pa.) took the ride,and had MUCH success on the Central Penna. Circuit. Anybody got any photos of the "supers" at
Greater Pittsburgh Speedway from late 1950's to mid 1960's.Everybody who was anybody would show up to run to TRY to beat the locals.It didn't happen very often. Wish I could go back there again. John S.

 

Vintage cars will be on track during the USAC sprint/ midget race this Sat. Aug.15 at Salem Ind Speedway. Stop by and say HI!

 

Corngrower, what's that new avatar of yours? Looks like a miniature english wheel.

 

It is.. Hot Rod Designer and Builder DAN WEBB makes them by hand, and gives them to certain people who "Inspire" him.. It is a great honor (to me anyways) to get one. I got mine two years ago at the Detroit Autorama. It sits front and center in my living room.

Here's an example of some of Dans metal work.. and knowledge of Vintage millers and open wheel cars.

A little off topic, but I think you guys will appreciate the workman ship..

Here is Dan's "new version" of the GOLDEN SUBMARINE.

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The original,



Dan's version,




now some detail shots.. I can look at this car for hours!! It's details are endless.

 

I've seen these Golden Sub photo's some where else… but I don't care… could never get tired of looking @ them… Thanks for posting!

 

Josh, your art work in the latest Street Rodder is outstanding. High point of the issue for me.

 

Thanks! I'm doing a whole series of those budget builds.. and I had to slip a REAL HOT ROD in there!! Ha HA! Send Brian (Editor) an E-mail and let him know you like it, He is a big Vintage Sprint car fan!

 

I saw the Golden Sub at Sema last year. The more you stare at that thing, the more intrigued you get. It has the best craftsmanship I have ever seen.

 

Thats got more holes than a screen door, but its nice !!!!!

 

I saw the chassie minus body a few years back at Detroit Autorama - stood there for about an hour admiring the work. Strange thing is I kept ending up back at it for another look multiple times. Still not quite sure how I or why I kept coming back. It has a magnetic pull of it's own!

Dan does top notch work and has a wonderful imagination.

 

Absolutely georgious!
On the other hand, I don't think I would want to be in it when the crash occures......

ZOOOM

 

Dan said some guy at SEMA brought his buddy over and said: "Look in there.. SEE, I TOLD YOU A GUY BUILT A WHOLE CAR OUT OF WASHERS!!"



JD

 

Probably just as safe as the original!!

Ha ha!!

 

the car is like Tom Hanna's dragster ...you just keep coming back for another LOOK...... Amazing
it's time for a road trip Josh

 

Michele's last run for the record,174+ mph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6V4AmMga7Q

Congratulations to the Costella Dennee Crew for their new worlds lakester record today.
Michele Brading finaly got in a record run and backed it up! Results from this aftenoon are posted below. Thats right she shattered the old record by 24.562mph. She did this using a V4 Kawaski power plant under 30 cubic inches in an open wheel Lakester! This Lakester was built by that old speed genius Jack Costella,who holds probably more records out there then I can count! My hats off to her dad, Glenn Dennee, an old oval OPEN WHEEL RACER and at times a midget owner and driver.
aXe

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Hey! That photo looks familiar!
David.

 

Great shot for sure!

 

Here's a better shot from the same day. It was so much easier before they put that infield fence up!
David.

 

Now back to "pre 1969". Here's a few that my Dad snapped "back in the day".
David.


McGrath......




Grim.....




Justin King....




Nazarek, Sweikert....




Parsons....




Bettenhausen....




Ward....




O'Conner....




Some high bank action.....1953

 

Ovalmeister, in the last photo...is that Pat in the LaVilla? And is that Justin King in one of those?

 

Cool photo I took yesterday for ya'll

 

I'm not sure BigJohn. I'm kinda at the mercy of what is written on the back of the photos. Since my Dads passing in '04 I've been going through his old photo boxes as time allows. I was born in '63 and know most of the drivers faces, the cars are a different story. I have to rely on you experts for those car ID's a lot of the time. lol.
Here's some more in the following posts.....even one with some "Crutters" guy. lol.
David.

 

Very creative Josh. I like it !

 

Very creative Josh. I like it.