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Can you tell who the sponser is on the car? Could it be Commercial Motor Freight?
[IMG] Bill Mackey [IMG] Clay Corbitt Our camera, in June of 1947, was an inexpensive model, but the photos show Sprint Car Racing as it was on...
Thanks for any help you can be. Jim
JIM if you have any pictures of the Blankerbaker Car I would appreciate you put them on so I can copy them to put in my collection. Thanks.
Reading all of this brings me back to the time I was a kid going to the Salem Speedway an all the great drivers I got to see.I'm 73 now an only...
I was at the 1958 race standing on the backstrech at the point where the cars normally backed off for turn 3 neither Elisian nor Rathman back off...
Roy was my car the one that had to high off gear. It was the orange # 33
Thanks for the pictures love the old pics from Salem as it is my favorite track.
do you have anymore pictures from salem in the early 50's
I think the car Dick Gaines was driving was the Martin Bros Trucking Car. They were a Penn. company but hauled cement out of Mitchell. They also...
I think its a Kaiser or Fraiser
I also got to see the race in 1987 at Salem I wonder whatever happened to the Miller Car
Do you know who the driver of this car was? Bill Kimmel Frank's father drove a # 69 sprint car just wondered if this was it as this car was from...
Guess I wouldn't know him then I livede close to Salem. Did he ever have cars run at Salem?
Where in southern Ind was your granpa from. I grew up in southern Ind
Anybody have any pics or info on Ralph Clary from Lou,Ky
Jim since you know most of the history of the Louisville area can you tell me who the mechanic on the Fetter Bros. cars was? Thank you for any...
Any body have any info on Calvin Gilstrap an any pics of his cars.
Not sure he was located in southern Indiana area. He livedin Salem.
Would you know who the chief mechanic on the car was? I think it might have been my 2nd cousin Jim Summers but am not sure.
Anybody got any info on the Fetter Bros Car?
The owner of this car was Karl Hall from Orleans,Indiana a small town trucking co owner. Karl is the man in the black pant's an the white shirt....
Indy Big John If you remember I asked you if you knew my cousin Jim Summers from Salem. I got in contact with the Washington County Musem in...
Love those pictures of the IMCA Cars especially of the DIZZ WILSON CARS as i'm from southern INDIANA an knew Dizz.
Amen to that I for one don't like all the support classes.If I go to see the sprint's I want to see sprint's an ditto for the midget's.
THIS car CHUCK was driving was owned by Karl Hall of Orleans,Ind he owned a small trucking company. Also that year Red Amick drove a car owned by...
Wow what a great site it is a must see.
Amen brother they just look like modifieds with all that crap on.
How do you think Dizz Wilson of Mitchell Ind Compared with the other Ranger guys as he ran them for years?
Guys I rember theis car when I was a very young man. Duane was driving it at Salem an the left front wheel hardly ever touched the ground. I can...
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