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You will likely have to make one, the basic side rails you might want to make from small Channel. If you can get a photo from a RaceCraft, or...
Yes, "Sleepy Tripp" was a good quarter midget driver, who went on to become a good adult, or "full" midget driver. (I was an "OK" quarter...
I think the most interesting thing a fellow could do with that '42 Desoto, would be to shrink the rear of the car, both in height, and width, so...
1953 was before the MGA... Prior to the MGA was the MG-TF, and the TF was in 1955...
Around 1970, I was driving by a steel recycling yard, which was quite large with stacks of metal awaiting re-processing, and on top of the...
you were right the first time, it us covered in "let em ALL go" by Economakie. (great book) Darryl Clarke
Great Photo! It takes me back to Lakeside Speedway in Denver, when I was a kid, and the pits during the night races under the lights, looked...
The quarter midgets that I drove (raced) and the ones my kids drove were all chain direct drive, but I think at least some of the "factory"...
I believe you have an "Offyette" quarter midget, built in the eastern U.S. during the 1950's. They had a hood (over the drivers legs) that...
Yes, that is for sure a Kurtis 500 quarter midget. I had a slightly later version, with the flat ugly grill....you had the neat mesh one, that...
Your day was not just keeping you busy. I once reclaimed a damaged "B" block I used to race, by doing the exact same process....rubbing...
I can't tell you anything about the TOPEZ head, but they also made gearboxes for quarter midgets.
The body looks like a "Race Craft" but the front suspention seems more "beefy" than the original model that I drove in the 1950's... The...
After starting in motor sport as a Quarter Midget driver, and proceding to Drag Racing, (413 powered K-88 Scotty Feen rail) a Chrysler Hemi...
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