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

Roy,

I'll keep it to a ten year span:

1955-1965 USAC Champ cars. That way I'd get to run both offy and injected small block, non-cage Big Car on the MILES.

A tie for second would be 25'-35' big cars..

or The Southern California Midget scene just after WWII. Vuky and the boys racing EVERY night of the week at places like Gilmore stadium, in front of HUGE crowds and a few Movie stars of the day..

 

Have at starting a new post. I'll contribute..

Lets keep this one in the past. Thanks.

JD

 

Which one of you , today, would have the balls to get into a miller on a mile dirt track without a roll cage, or safety belt, or even a roadster with no safety equipment.

I don't think I could do it, today!


traderjack

 

Ummm, they do it every year!!!

Now, NOT at the speeds they were going, but I'd squeeze into a Miller 91 in a HEARTBEAT!

 

Here's a little update on Jerry Blundy, still hanging in there.


http://www.galesburg.com/homepage/x469075100

 

Not if get to the MILLER first!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'd do it

 

I have longer legs and YOU ALREADY HAVE A SPRINT TYPE BODY FOR YOUR T (or did you forget)!!!

 

were do i sign up.

 

Me too

"Doc" Parsons

 

TBARA ?
I came down for the florida 400 last December. Neat race but car count and people count was down so i dont expect them to run it this year ? I also follow pavement sprints here in michigan and the Hoss guys in indiana.. And oc course USAC..Ya start a thread..
Dave

 

I'd do it in a heartbeat. Give the push/pull truck the go ahead.. I'm ready.

 

Sure you could! I just wished that I would have had a cloth helmet

60s usac driver, Charlie Masters, in the "Ezra Brooks Spl"..... mac miller in the #15 Boyle Valve Spl. Miller replica at the Winchester HiBanks, 6 weeks ago.

"Doc" Dicks in the Agajanian/Parnelli #98 roadster replica ....... mac miller in the #15 Boyle Valve Miller replica at Winchester Speedway, 6 weeks ago.
(Phil Rider Photo)

 

I would. I have known Charlie Masteres for 50 years and know he would, he was always crazy anyway[ask somebody who saw him drive on the banks].
Jim Graybeal

 

I will be going to Florida the first of December for a few months, hope to take this thing with me and get hooked back up with this thread.
Jim Graybeal
graybeal@bellsouth.net--but will probably change when I get down south

 

Jim do you know anything about the car Kershner Steel in Jeffersonville Indiana had?

 

Hey, folks , we were all crazy younger days, but notice the guys in the cars today with their fire suits, helmets , and seat belts.
Only time I ever drove a mile track was in 1947 at Kelly Petillos mile bank track in San Diego, one and only race on the track!
street roadster, no belts, and in sport coat , slacks and dress shoes! Did the mile in 46 seconds. LOL, and Rajo Jack did it is 39 with a Miller, next weekend.
Came back from Tiajuana one day , dressed the same way, and rode 3 motorcycles on the track and blew up two of them.
No personal protection at all. sport coat waving in the breeze.


Trader Jack

 

Bill Engelhart, Evansville, Wisconsin has the # 18 Kershner Sprinter,
beautifully restored. He also raced the car for Kershner, as did Larry Rice,
Johnny Parsons Jnr, plus others.

 

Saw this Hot Rod on ebay.............110311389046

 

Wild Avatar Rootie!

 

I found it on Getty or Corbis a couple years ago, but there was no info on it. Appears to have been a race through a residential area???



Also just came across this site detailing the history of the San Diego Steel roadster, lots of good pics and history.
http://sdsproadster.com/SDSP/SDSP Roadster.html

 

Kershner Sprintcar.

 

It's a small world...

That car is owned by Dave Schleppi. Dave runs the "research Department" at ZAKIRA'S here in Cincinnati. When they need a part, Dave gets on the phone and burns up the hours tracking down "what went where".. It's a full time job. Dave also did a LOT towards the convincing of Coker tire to repo the Speedway tires that are due out very soon! Dave has a the "Gift of gab" He drives the roadster in many Vintage events, and keeps it in top notch shape!

 

These are taken at Boise Idaho "Super Oval" in 1975 or1976. Malloy "uprights" The white #14 driven by Bob Naylor. The Maroon # 15 driven by his brother Tom. The #15 was renumbered as #00 in 1979 and driven by heir dad Glen "pappy" Naylor who had come out of retirement. My car #00 posted last week is the 1979 version of the 15 car. The red #00 on the trailer is in 1980 . Sadley both boys lost their lives racing. Bob in the #14 car in 1980 at Las Vegas. Tom in a Hyder Hawk super at Bakersfield in the early 90's. The pit pictures show a different era of racing. Not big time certainly but a time in the Boise area when almost every service station or garage had a race car setting around and many of them were open wheelers. Coors was the Naylors sponsor for years and their product is faithfully displayed in the pics. OB ...Having trouble getting pics to post If not I'll send them separately. Guess I need a tutor on this.

 

My brother drove it.

 

Also just came across this site detailing the history of the San Diego Steel roadster, lots of good pics and history.
http://sdsproadster.com/SDSP/SDSP Roadster.html[/QUOTE]

I have always thought that was one of the most beautiful roadsters ever built, if you look at the roadster sprint cars Don Brown built, most notably Greg Welds they look a lot like that car

 

I have always thought that was one of the most beautiful roadsters ever built, if you look at the roadster sprint cars Don Brown built, most notably Greg Welds they look a lot like that car[/quote]




+1

 

I remember the car but do not remember who owned it. Called Charlie Masters and he did not remember who owned it but thought they were from Ohio or Michigan. If that is right I do not know how they got hooked up with a steel company in southern In. Maybe someone else has more info.
Jim Graybeal

 

The Kershner #18 ran in USAC from 1975 through 1978. It was a Grant King chassis and Kershner Inc. was the owner.

 

I didn't realize the San Diego steel car and Lyle Roberts' roadster were one in the same. I had always assumed Lyle's car was a Dowker roadster, like the Jet Rod cars.

Interesting.