The Jalopy Journal
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Is it just me, or does that look like an inverted Edsel grill? Makes me wonder about the car's pedigree...
A true "splash-n-go"?
It's the Jonathan Byrd family; they originally announced it was for 2016 then moved it up a year. Their goal is to make it a long-term deal.
I took a sheetmetal fabrication class from Ron Fournier, who restored the # 7. Smokey Yunick ran the car later and replaced the independent...
It is hard to tell exactly how wide the tires are in either picture, but it is clear that in the color shot of the car fully involved in flames...
I hate to be a "wet blanket" (which Luke Easter could've probably used), but these cars all have cages and fat tires; I have a feeling this is a...
They had a lot of different nicknames, didn't they? 30 x 90's Cutdowns, "Bugs". Some sanctioning bodies required square tube frames, some outlawed...
In L.A., the Super Modified evolved out of the Jalopy racers, i.e. your basic 32 Ford Flathead. Guys started sectioning and channeling the bodies,...
How about the Bromme Offy "Andy Gump"/Paul Jones City of Syracuse/Gary B
Best place I've found is champcarstats.com; if you click on "Where They Raced" and scroll down to Indianapolis Motor Speedway you can see the...
It looks like ol' Smokey was trying to get most of the weight on the left side and that was the only place left for the filler caps. While he was...
I think that may be the first shot I've ever seen of Nalon bailing out of the car; he was lucky to have gone on to die of old age...
The third shot, while a gorgeous naked Kurtis, is a different car; the house car has a double-tube frame and (if I'm not mistaken) an independant...
I signed in , and I don' see no steenkeeng peecture...
Didn't they also sell infield tickets back then? I seem to remember reading that in Open Wheel...
So THAT's how you get the holes to line up! "OK: now, who's got the bolt? Whaddaya mean it's on the workbench?"
Yikes!:eek: Hide the young women & small children! (and be careful with those safety wire pliers)
Roy, wasn't that straight ethanol, with some additives "proprietary" to the "Ignite" brand? I don't want to fan a fire that burned for a long...
Guess that answers the "Fiberglass or alloy" question... Wonder if the frayed look in the crash pic was the paint separating from the sheetmetal?...
100" was likely the maximum W.B. for the Champ Division, there was probably a minimum as well; current Silver Crown rules state that "The...
Further investigation, and some dredging of my fuzzy memory: 1. The ortho drawing of the M/T car shows velocity stacks for fuel injection, not a...
That looks like Mauri Rose to me, too; the guy in the car could be Wilbur Shaw, and the dark-haired gent behind the car directly above "Mauri"...
>>>"I got the car from the gents estate that restored the regala car. Whatever he did he used the original nose off the 36..."<<< Well that's...
Oh. One more thing before I bow out of the conversation; just because a car has a Dzused-on tail cover like the #36 we've been discussing, don't...
Stan's probably right, but it's been a fun trip going through old stats and photos, doing a little comparison-shopping, finding out about the...
Once again, Rootie's on the ball. I read somewhere once that Bruce Sr. had started out building a Champ Car, but changed his mind midstream and...
Rootie's correct. Also, "Andy Gump" was a sprint car, campaigned with an Offy still in it by the Bromme's into the '70's, then converted to Chevy...
So 97" officially puts it in Champ Car range (min. 96"; Sprint Car max. is 90"). To me, the cutouts in the hood look more like Offy...
Well that's something, innit? At least we know as much as Stan, who is as good an authority as comes on here, and we know who the seller was. You...
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