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Just turned 79 and all I do anymore is look and listen. The '40 Ford coupe is the finest automobile Ford ever produced and the sound of a 85hp...
If it is the same person from Anderson, Indiana yes he ran with IMCA and also the old Midwest Dirt Track Racing Association or the 'kerosene...
I do not use Facebook, I have never driven a race car, I have never wrenched a race car but I do consider myself TRUSTWORTHY and EXPERIENCED not...
Could be the Richmond, Indiana Midget Stadium as the fence in the background looks very similiar.
So am I. Every time I attempt to get on Facebook it knocks me off the internet.
Every time I watch the pickers show with Frank and MIke I think back to the early 1950's and the modified stock cars that raced on the old...
Ryan, I have absolutely no idea, can not comprehend or even imagine all of the work you had to perform to get this finished product. But I am...
With a heavy emphasis on the 'vague' I think I remember reading that the Indianapolis Speedrome ran a midget race sometime in 1943 or 1944 for a...
Thank you for sharing these neat old photos and the two of Shaw in the Boyle Maserati's begs a question I have wondered about. How many Boyle...
As the year draws to a conclusion I just want to thank all of you for allowing me to eavesdrop and learn more about the history of our sport than...
I think we would all agree that your 2 cents will never, ever be tiring. I enjoy your perspective with each of your posts and it also brings back...
I am not sure about that correct order of car owner lineage but Jerry Richert drove this car for Wilke at the 1976 Cheaters Day race in Sioux...
You are right on Indy Big John and the other man in the photo appears to be (although some of his face is now shown) Dale Swanson of Harlan, Iowa....
You ARE a young man at 74, hell your just a pup and younger than me. I found the reel on the HAMB vintage modifieds thread that you visit...
Just finished watching the YOU TUBE highlight reel of the career of Denny Zimmerman and you are to be congratulated young man. You made it to...
Rest in peace John Leverenz and thanks for the memories in modifieds, supermodifieds, sprints and midgets and you left a legacy in Jackson, Minnesota.
I think Jungle Park opened in 1926 and closed when an errant midget went into the crowd killing a spectator and I think this was in 1960. As...
Not only is the old grandstand haunting but the entire oval is still intact. Slowly walking around the track sends chills up your back thinking of...
Ha Ha and thanks for the response carl s and actually I am so old I was born in the cabin I built!!!!!
Anybody out there have any photos of the old dirt track at Albany,Indiana or the one at Chesterfield, Indiana both from the 1950's?
Thank you for the correction. Like I said before us oldtimers have memory lapses as well as brain fades from time to time.
Actually I think the photographer who missed the shot is CARL Korbacher, that is if this is the same man I met at Manzanita back in the early...
I'm 75 with a 1937 Ford tudor flatback sedan with only 47,858 miles. It is in storage, up on blocks, covered with a tarp, dryer sheets inside to...
Indy, reading your lines is like taking a history lesson in early day racing. I had no idea that the Nalon car was left on the track for the rest...
Thanks for your information. I do not recognize any of the cars in the Montpelier photos, where do you think they originated? what organization?...
Although I do not recognize any of the cars could those early day 'big car' photos from Montpelier be the old 'Kerosine Circuit' or the Midwest...
Very neat old photos and if I might add I think the car number 8 ball is Bill Robey from Marion. Also counting down from the top photos #...
Yes you are correct it is the old FT. Wayne 5/8 mile track and those old coupes could really move around that very banked track. I watched a...
Thank you Blacki-Suede I was close and I just added up the years and it has been 63 years since I last seen that sign.
Racer5c an excellent suggestion and one that I just recently completed and yes you are correct I did miss a lot the first time. Now a question...
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