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

MY 1930 Plymouth Special Sprinter Built at Indy Gasoline ally in 1934 By John Holman and was In a Museam Owned By Ray Everyham Now Here In Australia Running up Rob Roy HillClimb Track By Me stil powered by a Flathead 25 In Engine i have the Log Book back to 1934 all races and Modes even when John Sold the car to the driver he was using as it wasnt fast enought to kep quilifying the driver brought a 1950 331 Injected Hemi But its weight made handle badly arccoriding to the log book and was removed they trted the cinder oval trck and dirt tracks of north and south carolina did ok by the looks then it went missing for about 40 years in a barn i guess? till discoved abin Maybe By Ray Everyham who had it in hes museam for a while then sold it to a Aussie The I found it And Made it First Run about 3 weeks ago Up the Rob Roy Track Here In Victoria Being which has been Going since about 1930 Just Love it I need a 25 Inch Alloy Head? to get it a bit lighter Cheers Gruntis

 

I love your car.
I don't like your lack of punctuation in your posts.
Keep the six...

 

Sorry been on the Juice all afternoon Downunder Or on the Piss as we say Make typing Shithouse with out glasses getting old Sucks"got a video blasting up the hill i will post son as i work that out cheers Gruntis"

 

pix of midget & mcdowell car. I can't say these are the right cars. as to the 1/2 m dirt car
I don't know. I am sure Fines can help.

 

Thanks for this snippet, very much appreciated!

The "Half Mile Offy" was the car in the Nauman accident, while the "McDowell" was the former John Bagley car, built in 1936 for Doc MacKenzie and driven to the Eastern Championship the following year by Frankie Beeder. Ted Nyquist bought it from Bagley, and Lightie got it from Ted. By 1945 it was driven by Bumpy Bumpus for owner John Lynch, I think, from the Boston area if I'm not mistaken. Both Beeder and Bumpus crashed fatally with that car. I don't think the left car in above post is the same, though, but I could be mistaken - all the photos I've seen of it so far are from the other side! As for the "Midget Offy", I don't have much info except that Lightie began racing an Offy Midget in 1938, and that it was also driven by others such as Tommy Hinnershitz, Doc Shanebrook and Henry Banks. Note that the photo above shows the lettering "Bud Sherk Offy" - Sherk and Light were neighbors in Lebanon before the former moved to Florida in the late forties/early fifties.

 

thanks for the extensive info & details.
am posting pic of car involved in Schindler fatal for possible I D.

 

Ottumwa Iowa.......close to my home......tell me more.

 

this is car involved in schindler fatal @ allentown pa. note 1 piece cowl & hood, xtr long tail pipe.
does this pic match any car you have pix of or know about(fines)?
mlight9

 

Ahh, thanks for that! No, this is not what I expected (per my earlier post), and from the top of my head I have no idea what it could be. Looks well enough made, probably a Mercury engine, number is 53, perhaps 58? I'll have a hunt through my photos and files and report back.

 

This is the closest I can come up with: #53 Fairfax/Nash, driven in a couple of 1952 NARA events by one Ted Jennings from Arlington/VA. As a bonus, I even have this (low quality) newspaper photo, and while it's certainly not an exact match, it isn't one thousand miles away, either! As for Lyn Paxton's suggestion of the name "Scarberry", I have a Paul Scarberry, originally from Ohio but residing in Harrisburg by 1949, and running a Mercury-powered Roadster/Modified for driver Elwood Brougher at Williams Grove that year.

 

Notes I have on this photo say Flemington 9-5-1949


Notes written on the face of this photo are all I have.

 

Reading 4-3-1949


Nyquist Offy Flemington 9-5-1948


Dover 7-4-1947

 

you have some very good pix. I think I have all but #5, others are different poses. I have assumed
for many years the "Miller" is the Martinson but not definite. if you have more I'd like to see them.
I'd like to know when he chg'd the nose of the Peters/Chitwood car to a bullet nose.
Lightie's garage was in lebanon pa(actually called Avon), about 12 miles from my home.
mlight9

 

Fines, any more pix for me re ML?
mlight9

 

Here's some super oldschool footage!

 

those were the days. film was excell for the time. a very good piece, thanks.
mlight9