Motion Pictures Movie of the Week: The 1933 Stock Car Race

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Movie of the Week: The 1933 Stock Car Race

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So how many cars were NOT Fords?

 

I think Ford sponsored it and provided cars to top drivers, so all the other non-Ford entrants were privateers in their own cars without much hope of winning!

 

Event winner Fred Frame:

 

One of your best finds yet, thanks for a great look back.

 

Four. Two Chevrolets, one Dodge and one Plymouth. The Plymouth finished eighth (and last), one Chevrolet went out after the first lap and the other was flagged off four laps down and the Dodge DNF’d just after halfway.
As you’d expect from a promotional film, the part about the Weidenhoff trophy for stock cars being a support race was glossed over. The National Road Race for racing cars was won by Phil Schafer in a “Buick Special" (a Miller). Some writers claim that the Weidenhoff trophy was the first organized stock car race, but the Mines Field races that ran from 1932 through 1936 probably has that distinction. In 1933 the Weidenhoff trophy and the Mines Field race were two of the four stock car races that comprised the Gilmore Gold Cup. Since the Elgin races were not repeated, in 1934 the Mines Field race was run as the Gilmore Gold Cup.