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

I remember Don running Loui Senters car you could
not pass it ,When it was sideways the nose was
at the bottom and the tail was up on the cushion.

 

P S it was the twin cam ford .

 

Yeah, that long wheel base did make it hard to pass!

 

I may be bending the rules of this thread a bit, but I found this pic of Bob East (Mr.BEAST) early in his career getting over a wheel at Clovis Speedway in 1972 driving the Pop Miller Sprinter. This kind of qualifies because these cars had bolt on cages and I know for a fact Pop's car was built in 1968 by Ray Wilson of Phoenix.

 

1964
AJ in the Sheraton-Thompson Meskowski / Offy dirt car, after he won the last race on Langhorne's (PA) one-mile dirt track, June 21. That year, Foyt won a record 10 out of 13 Indy car races, including his second Indianapolis 500.




Roger Ward and Don Edmunds

 

it's spelled Edmunds he's one of my heros get it right lol

 

Fair enough! Truley one of the greats thats for sure! I

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5ZF7PwvaA


neat old vid..

 

Not to be picky but it's Rodger with a D lol I showed the picture to Edmunds, here is what he had to say

"Yeah, Ward and Edmunds, that's Van Johnson standing in back, the track was South Mountain near Pheonix. I ran good that day, I was running second to Len Sutton, then knocked a front brake line off when lapping a slower car, Oh well."

 

To be fair that was a copy and paste pic from a open wheel site i visit often, I will let the contributing pic guy over there know...lol Thanks for the input from Edmunds (spelled correct this time.)I love the info behind these pic's makes it all worth while.Thanks...

 

On the subject of Edmunds, A while back someone posted a pic of his mid 60's super modified. #54 ( I can't seem to find it). That car is still fairly intact and is in the process of being restored by Billy Wilkerson out here in California.

 

FWIW--Came across this in the latest GG gazette.

 

Very Cool I'm there anyway...Thank's for the heads up...

 

Great stuff guys.. I was in Detroit last weekend, now I'm slamed with art and work for Cincy's show this weekend. I'm sitting on some good stuff to post here, just don't have time. I'll catch up with ya'll next week.




Anyone guess whats under the cover..







Thanks..

Joshua Shaw

 

Rex Mays!

 

Sure looks like a sprint car under there to me....

 

The no. 54 had the original aluminum body that ALL Edmunds bodies were copied from. If this is the car, I wish someone would post it.

 

I wandered into Autoresearch in Anaheim in the early 80's. Edmunds had sold the business but the original aluminum body was hanging from the rafters still wearing its pearl paint with red and blue candy scallops.

 

That is nice to know. The last story I had was that the car made it all the way to Kansas City. I was concerned the body might have been lost and even worse the car itself. But now I know.

 

I'll try to get some pics if I make it up to Wilkerson's place in the near future. The original paint looked to be in pretty good shape, so he's restoring it as is. The late Paul Kneirim did the original work.

 

Since your talk'in # 54, here it is.
This pic has been on my wall for years.
Here's what one look's like when you try to make it a sprint car.
Oh well better than no Edmunds at all, it still is nice to have setting around the shop

 

Thanks to Joe Heisler, I finally found a period picture of my 1939 midget racer as built by Orville Lane in Detroit. It shows the car as first put together with four wheel drive!

If anyone has more pictures of the car I'd be very happy to hear from them!

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I know its not a sprint car but way back they called em super mods.. The car my dad did the engines for .. Was owned by Mick Katlin and in this pic at Sandusky Ohio Bud Wilson was in the car.. Funny deal .. I wrenched a sprinter for Buds son and modified also and now we go and set in the cheap seats and drink beer and watch.. No fenders for us we are open wheel fanatics .. I look for updates to this post daily. Its friggin great....
Dave

 

If anybody runs into Don Edmunds ask him if he got my t-shirts in.

 

Here's Don !
This is one of those familar Dave O'Dell pictures.
Dave had a photo Studio in Indy, and would take the Offical Indy Shots.

 

Don Edmunds built some of the best race cars around,and he is one of the best model builders in the world. Here is one of his masterpieces,an exact replica of the Caruthers Midget in 1/4 scale.

 

Here is the chassis of the Edmunds 1/4 scale midget.

 

Unreal

 

The models cost more than the race cars sold for new, and they are unreal!

 

Jimmy Bryan taking his Rookie test at Indy in my dad's car