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).