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Jay, I remember seeing Hugh Randell drive it at Salem
Jay Burkart, Shelbyville, Ky. My Dad owned a sprinter in the 40's than ran against Doc's car. His good friend, Chick Smith got killed in it at...
Jay, I am from Shelbyville. Did your Dad work on Sprinters in the 40's?
Rootie,think that is Buzz Rose in you avatar.
raccin fool. In Jan. 67 I got upside down indoors at Ft. Wayne. In May I went to Indy with Sonny Ates and we ran into the Buco factory man and he...
I ran against the #28 car in 66 when Bob Lithgow owned and drove it. It was allways spotless. Tatwould drive it if his ccar broke, they were good...
The first car that Higman builtfor the Shannons was new for 67, it had an Offy in it. Sessions was the first driver.
Blacki, hurry up I am getting OLD.
That is a Crosley with a stock fuel pump, intake and ex. manifolds. The water pump is not stock.
I am glad I GOT to race USAC midgets without a rollcage. In my opion those guys were the best drivers around. Do not know how brave we were, just...
I agree with 28Dreyer. I drove a midget on a mile[Duquion] in 1966.
I do not know where or what organization but they seem to be several years apart. In some of the pictures the cars are blunt nose and flat tail....
I do not think any of the cars from Montpelier photos are from the Kerosine circut [a name that Bobby Grim and Cliff Griffith gave it] or the old...
I am sure Jungle Park did not have a guardrail.
I have a Jim Robbins pit shirt from 1956 that my Dad wore when Cliff Griffith finished 10th in the Robbins-Myron Stevens car.
jrbit, I saw the car at Winchester, In. several years ago. Heard it ran up east. Nice car, sorry I do noot know any more about it.
Rootie, Cliff told me that they were going to put a fresh engine in the car that night as the one in it when he crashed was very tired. Also I...
Rootie, Cliff might not have got burned so bad ifhehad stayed in the car. When the firemen got to the car and put the fire out Cliff was down in...
I think one of the first to do that was Gene Hartley in the Bolanher #4 about 58 or 59. He said he did not anyone to see when he was using the...
I have a few pictures of Sonny Ates but they are up north and I am in Fl. His wife [Judy] just got remarried.
Easter, I was at Tampa in 66? when Richert broke Bobby Grim's track recoed, which was very old. I was standing in the infield going into turn one....
I agree Mac. Jim Graybeal
Surfref32, That is a hard question to answer. Before cages I think drivers had more respect for each other and tore up less stuff, because they...
Did not know the figures on cageless,cages and downtubes. Glad I got to race without cages[raced with cages also].
I had the pleasure of racing against 2 or 3 of those guys in the midgets.
Stan, Crocky got me a ride in the car behind the #25 one time in Fl.
After thing a lot, I think the Thompson car that Steve first drove was a Shores car. Jim
Speedwrench, the first car I remember Steve driving was owned by Thompson but was a Jack French? car. He built good dirt cars but later built some...
29AVEE8, This has come up before, I think. Yu could make a 270 up to a 318. But there was only 5 318 in stock form ever made from people older...
barstowpo, Was that Charlie Masters that got put out of the park between 1 and 2 driving the Jones orange #33? If so there is a cute story that...
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