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

My Step Dad was the Chief Mech on this car and also Mario's dirt car at the same time, he was also
Joe Leonards Chief Mechanic on his Indy car at the same time, between Al and Mario they won every dirt race for 2 years straight, Joe Leonard was also the USAC national Champ at the same time. Pretty damn good record

 

moe moe moe..


Check out the Driving shirt.. Profesional...




One wheelin it!





Man! How would you like to JUST HAVE THAT TIRE STACK BEHIND HIM!!





Excuse me, pardon me, come through... HEY BUDDY, WATCH IT!! I'M DRIVIN HERE!! Oh... Hey, Could you check that left front while your down there..



From the days when they actually used WATER on tracks..



MORE FOYT. (and two "other guys" that were ok too..)



nice...




If you have not ever been to the Hoosier 100 at the faifgrounds.. GO! Its worth the trip no matter where you live. You can still stand THIS CLOSE! Actually.. we stand right where this guy is every year.




Lil push.. he was quick though.. especially if they inverted the top six... Think about that...






Cant ever have enough!



Man.. that cars workin. BEAUTIFUL!

 

Roy, Has there been a sprinter that one of your step dads or dad or family or brother didn't have something to do with!

I LOVE IT! Kepp the info coming.. I can say I knew ya!!

JD

 

Josh, those were Champ Dirt Cars not sprinters

 

Jesus roy... Some people call me Joshua, and some call me Josh.. But I understand what there getting at.

How about some pics of Howerton in a few cars. He's a cool guy.

 

Ken lived here in our little town and never was reconized for his work. Hell nobody knew him on the street. Nice Guy.

 

That car is beautiful. What is the story on it. What year would something like that have been raced? ...and what part of the country?

I wanna build something close to that.

 

Ken and his son Larry have been friends of mine my whole life, I have tons of photos he took of my cars but they are way to big to scan, his specialty was black and white photos that he then painted, very unique and totally cool

 

Hey Roy, Ever heard of a Russ Blevins..? I talked to him on the phone today for an hour. He races a Ranger powered vintage sprint car out of Tampa Fl. He raced all over and around southern Ohio and Ind. Both Sprinters and Jalopy's.. (When his Ranger powered sprinter got outlawed, he put the engine in a 36' Chev coupe and kicked ass!)

Great guy! Sharp as hell... at 82 years old!

JD

 

Don't throw shit at me..


Not to rub it in.. but our local track, Lawrenceburg averages 40 non wing sprints a week. On a USAC, or special race, its up around 50 to 60! The greatest thing is, that weekly 40 is HEAVY HITTERS! Excluding the leader, the top 5 at the Chili bowl looked like the weekly show here! Its a great place to race and/or watch..

Hopefully it still will be.. There completely redoing the place.. Changing it from a 1/4 mile bullring to a 3/8 mile.. THERE WAS NO LOGICAL REASON FOR THIS.. Just dumb asses in charge with money.

Well see... If any of you get out there this sumer, drop me a line.

Joshua Shaw

 

Don't know him, wish I did

 

Here's Dad's. This is what got him started on hot rodding. He told me he got it when he was 14, so that would put this one about 1957.

 

There are some killer pic's on here keep'em coming guys.. Josh Thank's for starting this..Also does anybody know when the first race is gonna be at Lawrenceburg in its new configuration?????I wanna be there for the first one should be interesting..

 

Boozo we need more info about the Midget and your dad!

 

Hey Josh here is a quiz for you, who are they?

 

Rex mays...

and the great.. Ted horn..


Same track.. same day?

Joshua Shaw

 

thought the first one was this car at first..

 

Uh, Roy you might want to rename the pics before posting, makes it pretty easy otherwise.

 

DAMN IT ROOTIE!! I WAS LOOKIN ALL SMART THERE FOR A SECOND!! SHIT!

here are some pics of the one above being restored..




















Beautiful..

 

Ok Mr. Shaw no hints on this one, name the builder/owner and the driver. Who said Gambler invented Downtubes. I will check for your answer when I get home from work.

 

Some good ones pirated from other web sites..





Dad and I went to Lynn Paxton's place a few years ago to get a bunch of parts for his nance... GREAT GUY!! Entertained us the whole day! Thanks Mr. Paxton. (we also stayed for a port royal race)

 

You say they don't make em like that anymore? Got that right! The GAPCO sprinter, old spring front that Mario used to beat up on the "new" 4 bars of the day.

 

God damn it Roy.. I graduated school a long time ago.. AND I DIDN'T DO HOMEWORK THEN!

Uhm... 542?

Ha ha.. I dont have a clue.. looks like A.J.'s stance in the car..

I like it! Down tubes and coil overs!!

You askin me who's who in an open wheel car is like me askin you who striped what when.. I didn't grow up around it like you did. Your a lucky som bitch.. mostly som bitch though,,,

Keep them coming though.. I enjoy challenges and I'm sure a few of these other guys will get em.

JD

 

Thats bad ass. I love that car.

 

ARE These pics taken out at Hadicks(sp) place, north of Indy? (

 

This isn't a sprinter, not even a dirt car.. But its neat.

Zakira's restored this Novi a few years back and we were lucky enough to do the lettering on it. All the logo's plus the Pure logo's were hand painted, originally and now. Dad and I were brought in to look at and photgraph and make templates off the original lettering that was suprisingly still in tact!
Well , dad being dad.. noticed that the left rear #15 had a brush hair in the "5" Originally.. it had been there since it was first done in 46' He measured and marked where it was, and placed a similar brush hair in the new one.. Zakira's laughed at that! and we've done all there cars ever since.






Here is Duke Nalon in it at Goodwood in 98' He was one of the few to survive the rath of these cars.. This paticular car killed 2 drivers.

 

anybody got any pics of Tom Bigelow? Midget and Sprints, Indy 500, ARCA, the guy could drive anything and lucky for me , I can call him friend, my pc that had his pics crashed. He's a great guy, and will talk racing with you for ever.

 

Here's a few:

 

thx alot, he is one of the nicest guys I,ve had the honor to be around, I was lucky enough to spend a couple of weeks wrenching on his and his sons ARCA car at Daytona, walking around any track in Indiana with him you feel like your with loyalty the way people treat him.

 

Dodgeboy,
yep, those photos were taken at John Hajduk's when I worked there in the early 90's. John probably has a bunch of pictures of Bigelow as Tom drove for him way back when. Kenny Schrader also drove John's midgets before he stepped up to the "big show" in the Winston/Nextel/Sprint (or whatever they are calling them this week) cup cars.

Roo