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

Can you guys school me on the SRE Wide Five Sprint Car wheels? What widths did they come in? Are they ford pattern?

 

Frankie Beeder.

There's a post at Motorsport Memorial about your uncle, George Woollis:

https://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=6712

I'll have a look at my records, maybe I can add a bit to that.


EDIT - I checked, and I don't have much on George Woollis. The fatal race was probably sanctioned by the Garden State Racing Association, a Big Car club racing mainly in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I have two Midget appearances in the weeks prior to that, June 15 at Lauer's Park in Reading and July 12 at Yellow Jacket Speedway in Philly. Woollis did not finish in the top three in any of the races at Reading (main event won by Frankie Beeder from Henry Banks and Tommy Hinnershitz), while he was involved in a multi-car accident on lap 1 of the consy at Yellow Jacket (main event won by Duke Nalon).

 

I find this photo somewhere in FB. Describe it: Reading,PA in 1950.

I think this track was Flemington,NJ and the year was in the 30s years.

The #1 was possible Ralph De Palma?

 

You may be correct, think the #7 Miller is Rick Decker. This car is in the East Coast Museum of Racing . When I find some photos of this car I'll post them. Thank you you for posting your photo. Bob

 

I think you're right, I have seen the picture before and identified the location, but have no access to my notes right now, but Flemington sounds about right. The year is 1930, and #1 is de Palma's Miller '122', but if I recall correctly he wasn't driving that day, but Wes Crawford (?). #4 left on the front row is Fred Frame in the former "Locomobil Junior 8" Miller, #7 is a Miller '122' with a Model A Duesenberg engine, I think that was the ex-Vail/Yagle car, maybe Larry Beals driving (?). To the right on the front row #9 is the former Cliff Durant 'oversize 122' Miller, now owned and driven by Rick Decker iinm. Second row left is Billy Winn in the Eddie Sejnost Clemons, and then (I think) Herman Schurch in Sejnost's Fronty.

EDIT - I checked, and the photograph I've seen is not identical, but very similar. It is Flemington, all right, Labor Day weekend of 1930, and the driver and car identifications above are all correct, as far as I can ascertain. I had one more car and driver identified in my notes, that is local hero Firman Lawshe in the "Hollywood Special" (second row to the right). And, despite all the Miller 'heavy metal' in the front row of the field, the Fords won out that day: Billy Winn set a new track record, while Herman Schurch won the main event from Fred Frame.