History Vintage "Cageless" Midget Picture Thread

I have a little more info on the Alton Jones #6. The body was built by a Vahericks (not sure of spelling) in Albany NY. The last known owner was Bill Damon, who restored the car and painted it white but kept #6. According to Speedway Scene October 11,1985 issue, Bill crashed at Hudson Speedway duirng the "Old Timers" race. Does anyone know Bill Damon or the location of the car? Are there other Vaherick cars?
Thanks,
Dan Jones

 

Ken, That looks like Tony Bonadies standing behind the car....

 

Hey Doug ..

CORRECT you are. .. I'm also told that the picture was snapped at Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson, NJ.

 

Put your thinking caps on folks. This guy has given us a lot of info in his various posts. Somebody in the North East should be able to help him.

 

I posted a resonse on the Sprint Car Thread.

Thanks again.

 

I just came across the H.A.M.B. website the other day and have been reading everything that has been posted. This is one great site!!
I saw where Ken Schou was asking for a few Ronnie Evans photos a while back.
I am his son. Here are some both in the Smith Offy and Artie Eichman's car.

 

THANKS John.

Your Dad was a truly nice guy.
I always remember him, when I think about midget racing.

 

Here is a pic of Tommy Copp at
San Jose 1957 Clark v8-60

 

1952 Sim Clark Automotive 1st Midget
installed a v8-60 in it

 

this picture says San Jose nov.1950
I recall they had a veladrome for bikes
next to the stands as a kid I thought
that would be kool to race on that .

 

The guy just over Tommys left shoulder on the left rear tire is Rudy Farhburger (sp)


95 as bought from Bob Craddock
on left is Roy "Curly" Gardner and Chet Taylor Uncle Dudly( Bob Hewitt in the seat




I grew up just a few blocks from Sims shop and spent a few hrs listening to Tommy And Rudy telling stories. I even worked for Sim Clark one summer. Rudys son Bill also raced a car out of the shop after Sim died and Bill OZZIE Osborne took it over. The 95 rail was converted to half rail half tube framed car. I was the gear changer and cleanup crew on it after it went from Sim to Bob Craddock then to Taylor Hughes, I took that all aluminum body and frame to the Alviso dump around 1960.
aXe
I can only think of one person who would have this type of family taken pictures,is this You in here Allen?

 

Yes Axe this is Alan C I have seen your posts all over
you seem to have a lot of good stuff.
took me forever to go through all these posts but
it was a lot of fun , I have a lot of pre ww11 sprint
pictures for the other site.....

 

Enlarging the photo and reading the caption, and looking at the cowl and hood, leads me to suspect this is not a Kurtis. Anyone confirm and identify it?

 

Check out the Kurtis-Kraft midget book page 177 should help you.
aXe
By the way that car with Mel Kenyon driving it a Vallejo spdwy on 2/14/1965 with ChevyII power won a National USAC Midget race there,first chevy II powered car to do so If I recall correctly.

 

sorry not so quick reply yes if you read the right side margin
it says kurtis-ford v8 , this is the same frame that Dick Atkins
Bob Deyoung and Dave Logan drove...lump

 

Hey axe 1962 was the first chevy11 win in usac Tommy Copp
beat out Jimmy Davis for the win they got so mad<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
that they listed it as an offy because they were embarrassed
ps we were running over 60% nitro that was Vallejo .<o></o>

 

here is the picture in a better format

 

Boy that one slippedMy Mind, I knew that you guys won with ChevyII first, but I completly forgot about that one, with age comes memory loss so I check the books to make sure about past racing ,They dont even list a race at Vallejo in 62? 9 races listed out west but not listed was Vallejo in "The official" championship midget auto racing Record book ,Those old farts that ran usac back then forgot to do a lot of things "LOL", But were quick on the draw to outlaw, specialy west coast midgets that took it to them.

 

John Evans, Welcome to this site. Pictures of your Dad are great, got any more? Your Dad was one of my hero's when I was just beginning my racing career. I'm afraid to ask but is he still alive?

Also just wanted to make sure you know there are HAMB sites for Sprint Cars and vintage Modifides. Denny Z

 

John, Welcome to the board.. The Smith car is presently being restored by Joe Fiore in Oxford Ct.

 

John Evans, I`ll have to look. I have several photos of your dad in my Al Rymsa checkerboard #25.

 

are there any web sites dedicated to midget racing in the new england area? I am looking for pic's of midgets running from that area 1940's-50's-60's ect.

Paul

 

I have a question about the front axel on my midget. I was looking at it today & noticed the left side of the axel seems to be purposly higher then the right side? It's a narrowed model A axel, maybe it's an optical illusion? I will take a picture of it tomorrow & ost it up for your expert eyes to see.
Paul

 

Hi Denny, it's good to hear from you. I heard you were back racing for Skip. That's great. I do have more pictures. Ronnie passed back in 1982 @ only sixty years old. That's my age now! I do know of the other sites and I am trying to catch up.

 

1963
Sim Clark Automotive
Kurtis with chevy11
Crosley pickup in background
how do you make these pic a little biger?
Hello Denny Z. I think I met you @ Sacremento
1996? maybe mistaken....lumpy

 

These pictures are from Scranton, Poughkeepsie and Schenectady New York
1947 1948
Back then they would run 7 days a week and if you had a NON-Offy
You got to start in the front if you made the main event.
Sim Clark ran A v8-60 with Stan Disbrow on the ARDC circuit he boasted
they would get the pole and Stan would HOG the bottom so no one
Could get by, they shoved bumped and pushed but the car handled so well
it only messed up the guys behind , took the another lap to catch up .
one week Stan won 5 out of 7 races , they eliminated that rule .
1<SUP>st</SUP> place paid $100 awesome…Lump

 

the pictures didn't go thru here they are

 

If You left click on them it about doubles their size

 

Allan, Good to see you here on the site. Looking forward to more of your Pics. Brings back a lot of good times !!

Here is one with your Dad & my Dad in the Car owners race @ Oakland indoors 1965. Note the # 1 on the Sim Clark Chevy II !!

 

Lumpy ..

I think you might mean 1967 & not 1957??

I could be wrong, but I don't think there was a Chevy II until 1962?