Excelent point Doc! As the first official winner, nobody has answered the question I posted. Father raced at Indy, son became a Formula 1 Champion. Hint #2 Son also ran the Milia Miglia
Well...good morning. I've learned some neat trivia here...and I've also learned some of you need a restraining order! NEW RULES..... Please...no more OT questions/answers Questions can be asked by different people at the same time, but please wait till your first question is answered before you ask another one....maybe these new rules will help. I'll post this update in my first post...carry on...
Pretty simple concept. Someone posted a buttload without answering one, and then got a little freaked because his questions haven't been answered yet. Relax gang. Thanks Larry. This has been kind of fun.
Don't know the answer to this one. But, I know a guy in Tulsa that did drive the FreightTrain at one time during its running. Roy Tuler, a hell of a nice guy.
Yes, but only part of the time. ZipperTop was a situation where the roof was cut off and could be re-installed with bolts, the racer would participate in both regular events plus the "convertible" events all in the same weekend. NASCAR eventually quit the convertible class.
I think you are looking for Alfred and Stirling Moss. Alfred competed in two Indianapolis 500 races, 24 and 25. He did indeed drive the Barber-Warnock Fronty head T in 24 finishing ahead of two Millers. However Stirling was never Formula One World Champion he lost by one point to Mike Hawthorne in 1958 but never won the title. I got to see him win the U.S. G.P. at Riverside in 1960.
Someone answered Craig Breedlove on this one. I'm not saying he didn't. I'm asking if he drove the Freighttrain or the earlier car before it was known as the Freighttrain? I think it was the Quincy Automotive twin engine before it was the Freighttrain.
Drag Racing Trivia: Besides Mike Sorokin, who else drove the Surfers Top Fuel car while it was still owned by the Surfers Race Team. He went on to become a Sports Car Racing Champion and worked at Carol Shelby's with Robert Skinner.
According to the owner of the "Freight Train", Craig Breedlove did drive "the Train" click on "train history" http://www.thefreighttrain.com/index.html [FONT=book antiqua,palatino]The list of Freight Train drivers is stunning. This added a colorful dimension to the Train’s history that helped make it the fan’s favorite everywhere.[/FONT] [FONT=book antiqua,palatino]Freight Train ‘engineers” included (in no particular order) Bob Brissette, Craig Breedlove, Tom McKewen, Mickey Thompson, Bill Alexander, Leonard Harris, Roy “Goob” Tuller, Billy The Kid Scott, Jerry Glenn, Bob Noice, Sam Davis (pictured), Walt Rhodes, and the infamous Floyd Lippencotte Jr., AKA Bob Muravez. Behind each and every one of them was the “real” engineer of the entire saga, toiling quietly in preparation for another of its seemingly endless appearances, John Peters.[/FONT] [FONT=book antiqua,palatino] Bob Muravez made over 1300 runs in the car, that’s over 325 miles in a digger! At one point he won 28 consecutive rounds of competition before losing to a red light. Through suggestion from track announcer Mel Reck and track operator Steve Gibbs, and because of a peculiar family circumstance, Bob adopted the Lippencotte handle for several years. He was rarely photographed during the period, and was undoubtedly the most notorious drag race driver in the sport’s history, for driving and winning national meets using an alias.[/FONT]
This thread seems to have stalled, so here's another one. What was the only car, ever to beat the General Lee?
What'd ya mean, it wasn't anything Cooter couldn't fix with a few four letter words and a seemingly endless supply of leftover paint.
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