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No fuel tanks but lots of misc. vintage parts & 6 pin wheel [spun aluminum 2 piece versions].
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I have three radiators suitable for vintage midgets. PM if you need one.
I have both current sportsman midgets [with down tubes] and a late 1970s VW powered vintage car. There is no hope in convincing the current racers...
Our Argentine correspondent, Leo Barbiari, is assembling a Fronty headed Ford Model T engine from parts his late father collected over the years....
In the late 1980s [IIRC] a guy outside of Milwaukee [Lebal?] bought the Halibrand product line and started making them at his factory in...
"Day dreaming a bit about the past today and wondering about the utilization of the major engines used in early midgets after the advent of the...
Point taken. My apologies to the late Mr. Lencki.
This is what I explained to the museum manager. Also that he didn't start selling midgets until 1964. I've noticed other mislabeled museum...
The lack of a reliable venue to transition cars to new caretakers continues to hurt the vintage racing scene. Very high end cars seen to move OK...
Offy and Miller motors can be assembled with the exhaust on either side, a handy feature not available on modern substitutes.
Right side. The Atlas family of motors is different than the Ecotec now becoming popular in midgets. Bigger bore, bore centers, and stroke. The...
We forget just how unusual it is to have a 4 cylinder DOHC motor as large as a 4.4 liter [270 ci] Offy. The biggest contemporary DOHC 4 cylinder I...
Here is a link to a 1947 Milwaukee Journal article on Fred Tomsche. Fred was a legend in my home town and you get an idea why from this piece....
Sorry about that. They looked good on my end.
Elsewhere I posted about finding a stash of old car magazines [1952-1962] along with a nice copy of Fawcett's 1955 How to Build Hot Rods. HAMB...
I recently acquired a mint copy of "How to Build Hot Rods" published by Fawcett in 1955. Oddly enough pages 128-133 are devoted to "More Dash for...
Up until the late 1970s many race tracks required crew members to wear white trousers to enter the pit area. It was a safety and "professional...
Occasionally HAMB posters lament the decline of personal ethics in modern society. Apparently it isn't a new phenomenon. See the attached letter...
If your better half likes estate sales [mine uses www.estatesales.com] check the listings for tools, auto books, car parts. I've found some...
As requested. Unfortunately the pristine cover popped off while scanning the table of contents. The book may never have been opened before.
The upside to accompanying the better half to estate sales is the occasional guy stuff jackpot. Today's $4 box of magazines included: Mint...
Photo looks like Joliet Stadium based on the curb on inside and the turf infield. When did UARA mandate cages?
Do you have a small tape recorder? It is a great way to preserve bench racing stories until your hack writer can get them down on paper. I collect...
Just a quick horror story on wheel studs from the general auto/industrial supply stream. We were building hydraulic wheel drives and needed a...
One of the Bob Lockhart Badgers is for sale on www.bmara.com right now. Ad had lots of photos of the recently restored car.
There are several Buick powered Junk Era cars around, both restorations and replicas. We'd prefer to do something different out of respect for...
I haven't been to the Speedway Museum to check yet but everything I can find in print says the Hudson Special was a rear wheel drive chassis...
The Mallory Special is EXACTLY what we have in mind. It looks like only a few stock blocks made the show but plenty of them tried. A visit to the...
We're in the early planning stages of planning a "junk formula" Indy car replica. A very original 1935 Ford chassis has been located and...
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