VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Rootie, this looks like a Championship car; probably late '40s/early '50s. Is there any identification on this one? If I had to bet I'd say someone updated a pre-war rail frame car.

Thanks!

 

Foam Lake Motors is still operating

 

I believe this is at Holloman AFB in White Sands, NM.

 

I don't have any info on the car but the shot was taken at Syracuse in the late 40s. The best I came up with is it may be the Scopa spl. Here's a shot of the car a couple of years later with updates (?)

 

Could there be similar looking but different cars involved? The reason I ask is that it looks like the car in your first photo (at Syracuse) looks to be #83. If so that is listed as a Buster Warke car at Syracuse in both 1950 (Bill Schindler missed the show) and in 1951 (Hinnershitz qualified but went out early). But also in 1951 Joe Scopa's #58 car in your other photo was a DNQ at Indianapolis with Frank Armi driving. The Warke car is listed as a Kurtis-Warke and the Scopa car is a "Scopa". Sometimes I get completely confused trying to trace some of these cars in the old photos.

Thanks as always!

 

You're probably right, it was just a halfassed guess on my part. I agree it can get pretty complicated researching 70 y.o. photos and often unreliable stats.

 

Pittsfield, MA

 

North Adams, MA

 

1944 Holyoke

 

1957

 

Another reason to love 55 Buicks

 

Harold, Maude, and the girls....

 

"blight", Milwaukee WI '36 ~

 

abandoned mine operation, Goldfield NV '40 ~

 

Zeigler IL '39 ~

 

Greenville NC '43 ~

 

Hailfax NC '38 ~

 

Milwaukee '36 ~

 

Mound Bayou MS '39 ~