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

I believe Gregg Kishline's point is that it doesn't have to be "money driven." The reason motors are so expensive is because people no longer build them on their own plus all the exotic materials.

Is sprint car racing more enjoyable now than when guys bought 327 long blocks from their Chevy dealer, chaned the cam, put in a magneto, and bolted on a set of Hilborns?

Is it more entertaining that they roll into town for a WOO show in an 18 wheeler with 3 complete cars and parts for two more on board?

My friend may be off in his cost estimates but not in his intent. Leasing those sealed Honda V-8s is a MILLION a year. No family owned business short of the Hyatt Hotel chain could support an Indy car these days.

GE White's new book on the Wilke's Leader Card team details the rise of big money & the decline of the "sportsman" owners.

Chuck Schultz
Winfield, Illinois

 

You could race on a budget back when this was going on.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jamesarthur22/AntiqueRacing#slideshow/5401141857936125090

 

VW powered midgets in 1965? Caption correction needed. Is it racing the Lockart Badger on DIRT? That is what we need.

Chuck Schultz
Winfield, Illinois

 

I don`t know about the captions. It is a photo of Sprint cars on the Hills.

 

What the hell could possibly BREAK on this car?!!

 

The wheels from trying to hold up all that weight-LOL

 

sm66p-a million thanks for these photos!!!

 

I think the guy who built that learned his craft building nerf bars for Australian modifieds.

 

I'll bet it was made out of old drive shafts and not as heavy as it looks. Probably only weighed 4000lbs, not 8000 lbs LOL

 

Saw that, misprint, actually mid 70's when AJ ran Howard Linne's car.

 

How about some sprints from Reading....Rich

 

second helping......

 

Both Thumbs up!!!

1973? I think. Maybe 1974

I love that shot of Sheldon Kinser in the #20!

#72 is nice and sideways-Nice Job.

Checking Open Wheel Times,1974 it is.


#14 is Jerry Nemire

#59 is Boom Boom Cannon

1974 First race.

1: Puterbaugh, Bill (73 - Elkins) 2: Opperman, Jan (90 - Bogar) 3: Nordhorn, Don (3 - Leffler) 4: Osborne, Lee (81 - Tobias) 5: Cornett, Mel (98 - Wilke) 6: Carter, Pancho (6 - Stapp) 7: Sessions, Sammy (5 - Amerling) 8: Cassella, Billy (29 - Seymour) 9: Williamson, Kramer (72 - Bear) 10: Leavell, Rich (61 - Welch) 11: Leffler, Greg (79 - Watson) 12: Walkup, Bruce (4 - Siebert) 13: Parsons, Johnny (24 - Davis) 14: Lloyd, Mike (56) 15: Kinser, Sheldon (20 - King) 16: Tobias, Dick (36 - Werglund) 17: Cannon, Larry (59 - Hoffman) 18: Nemire, Jerry (14 - Weaver) 19: Toth, John (96) 20: Snider, George (2 - Leyba)

Second race

Reading Fairgrounds, Reading,PA
Date of Race: 4/6/1974
View Race Notes
A Feature
1: Osborne, Lee (81) 2: Snider, George (2 - Leyba) 3: Opperman, Jan (90 - Bogar) 4: Walkup, Bruce (4 - Siebert) 5: Carter, Pancho (6 - Stapp) 6: Tobias, Dick (36 - Werglund) 7: Leavell, Rich (61 - Welch) 8: Sessions, Sammy (5 - Amerling) 9: Beale, Rollie (1 - Kilman) 10: Parsons, Johnny (41 - Forberg) 11: Kinser, Sheldon (20) 12: Howerton, Jackie (25 - Easton) 13: Leffler, Greg 14: Nordhorn, Don 15: Saldana, Joe 16: Dosher, Thad 17: Cook, Duke 18: Puterbaugh, Bill 19: Cassella, Billy 20: Cannon, Larry

Third race

Reading Fairgrounds, Reading,PA
Date of Race: 7/3/1974
View Race Notes
A Feature
1: Carter, Pancho (6 - Stapp) 2: Parsons, Johnny (41 - Forberg) 3: Cassella, Billy (29 - Seymour) 4: Sessions, Sammy (5 - Amerling) 5: Beale, Rollie (1 - Kilman) 6: Puterbaugh, Bill (73 - Elkins) 7: Gurney, Chuck (36 - Werglund) 8: Leffler, Greg (92) 9: Opperman, Jan (99 - Smith) 10: Howerton, Jackie (25 - Easton) 11: Walkup, Bruce (4 - Siebert) 12: Bettenhausen, Gary (24 - Davis) 13: Ponzini, Gary (84 - Gehlhausen) 14: Snider, George (2 - Leyba) 15: Chassey, Steve (16 - Bettenhausen) 16: Bigelow, Tom (14 - Weaver) 17: Nordhorn, Don (32) 18: Murphy, Ed (42 - Ziegler) 19: Saldana, Joe (76 - Winterbotham) 20: Tobias, Dick (37 - Campbell)
B Feature
1: Carter, Pancho 2: Walkup, Bruce 3: Cassella, Billy 4: Bettenhausen, Gary 5: Beale, Rollie 6: Murphy, Ed 7: Ponzini, Gary 8: Nordhorn, Don 9: Osborne, Lee (81) 10: Rapp, Benny (12 - Linsmeyer) 11: Williamson, Kramer (72 - Bear) 12: Kinser, Sheldon (20)
Qualifications
1: Opperman, Jan (22.79 - NTR) 26: Leavell, Rich (61 - Welch)

 

Hey Buildy,Thanks I've still got more from this set to post yet!.....Rich

 

Great! I love this stuff. They still looked like classic race cars back then,even with the cages.

 

True, Some were even beautiful pieces of art, broadsliding in the dirt. Then they went and screwed them up by putting those rock gaurds and aluminum billboard/crutches up on top of the cages so you could'nt see you favorite heros in all their glory behind the wheel....Rich

 

Yes,I like to be able to see the driver working in there.

 

lol you read my mind

 

Went to Grandview last year to watch the USAC sprints. Closest I've seen to match Silver Crown Cars. And it was a real good race. No wings,only cars and drivers.

 

Is this Johnny Capels' sprinter with the "Jacob's Ladder" setup on all four corners? I can't make out the number but it definitely looks like an unconventional suspension. Looks like maybe parallel bars, and where are the shocks? Cantelevered coil-overs, not torsion bars?
Anyone?

 

I was thinking it is Lee Osborne #81 but it is tough to make out the number on the car.

 

Let me make it a little easier.... Rich

 

Rabs what is the deal there? Looks like a big 8 with a tiny 1 next to it.

In the original photo I can make out a large #1 on the rt but the left # is washed out.

Same car-at different races. Probably different years the new shot is probably from 1975 or something.


That new one is a really cool shot!



IIRC Capels car was #21.

 

Doesn't appear to be, unless there was a earlier version. Roy C. would know for sure.

 

"Looks like maybe parallel bars, and where are the shocks? Cantelevered coil-overs, not torsion bars?"




My guess is some kind of inboard coil spring setup. I can`t see anywhere for parallel bars.

 

The first one I believe is from the march race,the second one was later in the season maybe the april race,both have Lee osborne in the car, maybe stauffer hab a # 8 backup car and added the little 1 after a crash or maybe the sign painter screwed up relettering the car, don't have a real good memory of what or why the different numbers, maybe someone on the panel might have a better idea ....Rich

 

osborne car was a 4 coil over,inboard mounted with long catilevers.was some great articles about lee and this car in of all places Car and Driver magazine!put the car on a skid pan and compared it to some road race cars.got the magazines put away in one of a few hundred boxes so I dont have the dates

 

Thanks guys! Osborne it is then,and the suspension question answered as well.

 

That was the OZ cAR buiilt by Lee his self.

 

Does anyone have any photos of Larry Cannon's Yellow B4 sprint car from Danville, Illinois?