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

Oswego Speedway 2011 Classic weekend, here's Paul White's ISMA supermodified in action. He kind of has a sprint car theme going on. I always enjoy my trips to Oswego, the supers put on a great show and no two are alike. enjoy!

 

Lee,the Sweet 16 is owned by Steve Miller from Mexico N.Y.. His avocation is finding and restoring Indy Roadsters. This car has been fast lately and it looks good also. Bob

 

Bob,
He just got a 5th at Oswego on 9-2-11 in the 55 lap Winged Classic over Labor day weekend, his cars always look great.
Lee

 

I've read that Steve Miller has restored approx 50% of the Watson roadsters ever built.

One of Steve Miller's quotes:

"I was one of those guys in the late 1960s who butchered those beautiful old Indy roadsters, making them into supermodifieds to race at Oswego Speedway," he said. "Now, rebuilding them is like a curse, punishment for what we did to them 40 years ago," he said. "There's a lot of work trying to put the chassis back to their original configuration, and we have to chase all over to find as many of the original parts as we can or just make new ones."

Ironically the Sweet 16 is all hand built and not of Indy roadster origin.

Carl Schulz
Indio, CA

From the days when supermodifieds were made of cast iron.

 

Some old photo's when the MN State Fair had a dirt surface. I didn't take these photo's but I was in the grandstand must have been about 16. I never forgot this crash between Johns & Conkel. The Long crash was on the re-start of their crash. Dust was a real problem but, it was a great track.

 

Msf 1962

 

What happened to the drivers? All three (Johns, Conkel, and Long) look very bad. Even JR is doing some serious "bending".

 

Harold Leep, via Shane Carson -

They want to know who the trophy queen was in 1963(?). It was a fair date in which Leep won there, possibly the last dirt race they had. Harold thinks it was a movie actress, but he doesn't remember her name.

He drove for Red Lompelius that day.

any ideas?

 

Don Johns was killed, Harvey Conkel was burned badly but survived. I think he went on to be a flagman. Russ Long was shaken but not seriously. I have more photo's of the Long wreck I'll post.

 

I'll get back to you.

 

More mfrom MSF

 

Not sure of the year 1959 maybe.

 

Re Post #15791, page 790, I think you'll find this to be a KK 4000, circa 1953, orig.
owned by Sandy Belond, then Traylor & Vargo.
see KK history/White, pg.69.
mlight9.

 

Thanks. Great photos. (to look at but not be in!) I'll bet if Russ Long was wearing a shoulder harness he wouldn't have survived this one. Thanks for posting.

 

I think then that this is the car that took the lives of Pittsburgh's Dick Linder,then Van Johnson,then Bill Randall..

 

March 6 1977 Van May at Lincoln Speedway, these are pictures from my dad's archives . enjoy!

 

September 16 1977 WGOT 3rd annual convention, these are pictures from my dad's archives. enjoy!

 

Over the years, I have seen and read articles on Buick and Daimler V-8 midgets.

As both can be enlarged to over three hundred inches cubed, what size were they run at, and what clubs or sanctions allowed them?

In the seventies came the motorcycle based V-8s.
Are there any V-8 midgets still running non-vintage events anywhere in the U.S.?

Were there any other odd-ball seemingly illegal engines ever run?
RpR

 

RpR. google synergy v8 midget engine see what you get. also check youtube under synergy v8 midget for some video.

 

Home built 60's car says Chuck Montgomery and Don's Sinclair on car.
Red and Blue # 22. This car was in the Larry rust collection at one
time.

Located in East Central Ohio.

Tom Burkey
330-756-2030
33-417-5712 FOR SALE

 

FOR SALE
Built and driven by Billy Steif, raced as The dyer 461 in Pa.
Car is late 70's early 80's. Needs to be back in Pa.

Located in east central Ohio.

Tom Burkey
330-756-2030
330-417-5712

 

Baldtireman, the third driver was Hugh Randall not Bill.

The car was also envolved in Vuky's accident with Al Keller in it.

 

Back to the EMMR Museum again.

 

OOps on Hugh Randall-I was very young...Did not know about the Vuky connection..

 

That was a vicious wreck with Johns. I'm guessing by the last picture that he died in the wreck and not afterwards as a result of his injuries.

 

With out trying to be disrespectful, I remember an official looking down inside the car and then walking away.