History VINTAGE SPRINT CAR PIC THREAD, 1969 and older only please.

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Looks like Roy got "stand'in on it" figured out early

[JohnnyFast]

Gary Bettenhausen in the Thermo-King Champ Car at the Indy Fairgrounds. I recently added the GMP diecast to my modest collection.

[Speedwagen]

How about those Royal Lancers on the Trailer

[hemisteve]

Any details on the No. 1 car? I have a pair of wheels that kind of match the rears (except mine are 18x9.5!) - been looking for pics of them being run forever! Really want to get a history on them as I've never seen another pair like them.

Steve

Originally Posted by richcraft.spl

Rodger Muclusky

[PurplePearl50]

In Sedalia we have Mo State Fair grounds and its one of the last 1 mile tracks there is left in th mid west back in the 60's and 70 a ton of big namers ran out here Bobby Allison,AJ Foyt,Benny Parson just to name a few....

Seeing the picture of Doug Wolfgang brought some memorys back to me from when i was little im 20 so it wasnt too long ago but i met him at the track one night it was one of the times he came out of semi retirement to run again..i had this old shirt of his that has a wolf howling at the moon on it from like 1967 or some thing he couldnt belive that i had it, it was my dads when he was a kid and i found it and kept it cause i knew who he was i was prolly 6 or 7
id love to get in a sprint car just one time but id prolly never get out of it...

[butch27]

Did You know that after one of Wofgangs wreck he didn't need glasses anymore? Weird

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[PurplePearl50]

Originally Posted by butch27

Did You know that after one of Wofgangs wreck he didn't need glasses anymore? Weird

yeah i knw that thats totaly crazy....he about burnt up at I-70 in a really bad wreck they didnt get to him fast enough there was a bigo law suit about it...

[mac miller]

Originally Posted by hemisteve

Any details on the No. 1 car? I have a pair of wheels that match the rears - been looking for pics of them being run forever! Really want to get a history on them as I've never seen another pair like them.
Steve

Car was built in California, around 1960, by Jud Phillips. Car came to the Midwest to race in USAC as the Konstant Hot Spl. owned by Bruce Homeyer.
Car won several car owner champions and driver championships. It was run as the Rupp Mfg. Spl, the H&H Tool Spl.(in the picture) and was, even, owned and driven at one time by Salt Walther. Drivers included Roger McCluskey, Mickey Rupp and Walther. It was one of the first four bar, space frame cars in the midwest. The car currently belongs to Mutt Anderson of Xenia Ohio and is restored to the H&H Machine Tool paint job. It is one of the best and most famous cars to ever run in USAC.
The wheels are a standard Halibrand magnesium, center lock, racing wheel. Probably, 10 or 12 inches wide in those days. The wheels in the picture appear to have an integral pressure plate. They are, now, getting hard to find but there were plenty of them back "in the day".

[racer5c]

Originally Posted by PurplePearl50

yeah i knw that thats totaly crazy....he about burnt up at I-70 in a really bad wreck they didnt get to him fast enough there was a bigo law suit about it...

not quite the whole story.

[racer5c]

Sun Prarie Wisconsin

[racer5c]

That little Italian guy again

[racer5c]

How bout a rear engine dirt car?

[racer5c]

A.J.Foyt and Tommy Copp

[Rootie Kazoootie]

Originally Posted by racer5c

not quite the whole story.

Right you are, Roy. It was Lakeside Speedway not I-70, and (I choose to believe) DWs suit was as much about encouraging promoters of proffesional racing to provide proffesional rescue crews and equipment at their events, as it was about his financial compensation.

[Rootie Kazoootie]

Rodger Ward 2-3 wheeling it.

[Rootie Kazoootie]

The Edelbrock (27) and Stroppe v860 midgets, were among the few that could beat the Offys regularly.

[Rootie Kazoootie]

The late, great, Colo. racer Jim Malloy

[hillbillyhell]

Dryer we restored last year. It was set up for the short lived NASCAR "Speedway Division"

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