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Well, scratch that - brain fart! Clearly two different cars. No, but maybe Dickson's '68 ride became the Foyt #11? Does anyone know?
That was in the seventies, and I think it was still the same car (but am not sure).
The program is from the 1965 Reading Fair race in September - Foyt drove the Stapp #4 in July.
Yes, he did: 1965-07-17 Reading/PA 4th 1965-08-28 Minnesota SF 3rd (not 100 % sure) 1965-08-29 Minnesota SF 5th (ditto) 1966-09-11 Terre Haute/IN...
Correct, except that the Miller is one of the few to never have raced at Indy! Miller ‘S8’ « Indy Car A-Z « OldRacingCars.com (see entry at '2302-X')
He didn't, it's a publicity shot. But everyone wore a tie those days, even during races!
Swiss cheese lightening? :D You could argue it's a forerunner of the monococque... ;)
It is. 1951 (Earl) Beal/Offy, out of Norristown/PA. Reputedly a Bud Sherk Midget before the "stretch job". In the background is another stretched...
Whalemart?
Earl Unversaw, ex-motorcycle racer from Indianapolis and riding mechanic for 1934 Indy winner Bill Cummings. Yes, pretty standard Fronty-Fords, DO...
It would help to know who the photographer was!
Stanley Babinski, of Sloatsburg/NY, raced a Bab Special in several independent (ARA, NEBCRA, Central-Pennsy, EIRC, AMRA) races in the PA/NY area...
Good call, I'd say, re the Essex frame. I recall that a similar frame on the Hooker Special was often mistaken for a Miller frame, when in fact it...
No, it's Fred Horey. I'm trying to figure out the car, it gives me headaches...
You're welcome, Hans! (Any connections to the Vaterland, with that name? :)) History of NARA starts in 1929, or maybe earlier, with the Atlantic...
The name of the former curator of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum is Tom Schmeh... George Koerner was from Reading, PA, and at...
Well, that's obviously not a Simplex but a Packard.
1954.
We're talking about two different cars. Jimmie Benedict had an 8-cylinder Duesenberg after he'd sold the 4-cylinder to Louis Hoyt in 1921. It was...
To be perfectly frank, I don't remember all the details - it's been several years since I looked into this! I don't think Duesenberg built that...
This was a AAA event, sanction number 1462. I think it's fair to say that the AAA wasn't overly interested in dirt track racing at the time,...
That's correct: 8-cylinder Duesenberg (of the type raced by Batten at Pottsville) on the Sheepshead Bay Speedway. Driver is Tommy Milton, but I...
Here are the results that I have: Event 1, time trials: 1 Beals 30.0", 2 Vance 31.2", 3 Batten 31.4", 4 Senyard 34.0", 5 MacBride 34.6", 6 Devese...
Oh, nice!!! I don't have much on that race, but it was a field day for Larry Beals! He won the time trials, his heat, the main event and a...
Interesting. I wonder if this is the Wills Special, driven by Tommy Dawson as a #6 in the area in 1924. I know nothing else about it, what with...
Keep the bust, it's probably the most valuable bit :D
I'm sure those tires suck!!
You can actually spot the DD tube right behind the nearside brake drum. And it looks like a Miller FD arrangement because it actually is one -...
Bizarre discussion... and it's actually Henry Segrave (without an "a") ;)
Actually, the picture is from the June 19 race. Whoever wrote those notes on the photograph must have done so many years later, and mixed up the...
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