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

[haroldd1963]

This thread deserves a bump!

[Rootie Kazoootie]

MR. midget racing---- Mel Kenyon

[Rootie Kazoootie]

Herk, in need of just a bit more stagger.

[JohnnyFast]

You might guess that I'm an A.J. Foyt fan.....

That's me by his (and Snider's) sprinter at the Speedway Museum.

[racer5c]

couple more

[JohnnyFast]

One of my favorites....Al Consoli is a magician with a camera.

Mosely in blue and Andretti in the STP.

[Rootie Kazoootie]

Some little Italian guy out of Pa.

[k9racer]

This is a great thread.. All the old sprints,aka Big Cars and midgets were beautiful not like the boxey look alike cars of today.............. Bobby.......

[KIRK]

Awsome thread! Old sprint cars rule. Thanks.

[Joshua Shaw]

These are some pictures out of a Book called, "The Rim Riders"
An excellent book with HUNDREDS of pictures.

I highly recomend the "Jungle park reunion" Its one of those places that makes the hair on the back of you neck stand up the first time you see the grandstands.. Still to this day.


Jungle park was such an unusual track. It wasn't level! The front stretch ran DOWN HILL which created great speed and danger.



When you crashed at Jungle park you were lucky if you stayed on the track. If you ran off turn one you literally "Ramped" into a thick forest. This guy was "lucky" as they ask him the old "Do you know where your at.. whats your name.. what day is it"



In the early days of sprint car racing... actually getting paid was a big event. Check out these drivers Wads of money.



Here are some hard rides.. non of them fatal.





CHECK OUT THIS GUYS ARM!!!



Richcraft mike and I went to Winchester a year ago to a USAC race. Its another track that you "feel" the history in the air.





Speaking of Richcraft mike... Here he is in an early sprinter



Some good color shots.





STOP AND LOOK AT THIS!!! What wall, what lights, What the...



All you Hot rodders have heard of "The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show" Well... Joey was a sprintcar racer. And he is a distant relative of mine.








And ofcoarse one more of TED HORN. Here Ted is on a MILE and at full tilt... That sucker running behind him is getting a face full!



Joshua Shaw.

[Joshua Shaw]

I have been hired to build a "Recreation" of this car. The "Mark Bowles Ranger Spl" I START ON IT MONDAY AND I CANT WAIT!!




We already have the hard part!

[racer5c]

Barney Wimmer in the pic with Jimmy Wilburn went on to work at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum until his death he restored almost every car that is in the museum, was a great guy and another of my heros

[Joshua Shaw]

Originally Posted by racer5c

Barney Wimmer in the pic with Jimmy Wilburn went on to work at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum until his death he restored almost every car that is in the museum, was a great guy and another of my heros

Hell yeah.. That book talks a lot about him, and how they wore those SILK GOLD SHIRTS when they drove. They designed them themselves. Pretty cool. Pimp shit...

For you HAMBERS that don't know.. Racer5c had the shittiest HIGH SCHOOL job ever!! He worked at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum... Yeah,, That must have SUCKED!!

A side note to that.. How many of you know that the Museum has a BASEMENT with way more cars in it!!! Theres no basement in the Alamo... Ha ha.

[29 sedanman]

Josh,

This picture I posted earlier from the museum in PA has a Ranger powered car in the back ground. I looked but I do not have any good shots of it.

Here it is,

[Rootie Kazoootie]

Early in his career "Opp" wheeled this Ranger powered crate around No. Cal.

[swimeasy]

Wallpaper forever!

[SteveLines]

Is that the original engine from the car?

[racer5c]

Anyone notice anything unusual about the car being pushed off?? Unusual for Sprint Cars especially in 1950

[racer5c]

for some reason I had to make the picture smaller to post it look at the one on Josh's post

[racer5c]

Just in case I will give you a hint, Johnnie Parsons 1950 winning Indianapolis car had the same thing that I am talking about on this sprint car, Josh do you know who that is being pushed off? or the name of the car?