Features VINTAGE SPRINT CAR PIC THREAD, 1965 and older only please.

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Rollie Beale

 

Ted Horn































Young A.J. Foyt

 

Well... in honor of Boyd Coddington who passed away this morning..

Here is a car that his shop restored. Thats all I know about it.

 

Whoever is building that time machine: Hurry the hell up! I MUST go back.

 

Is that "Herk" in the 56?

 

"Is that "Herk" in the 56?"

The one and Only, Jim Hurtibise!

 

In my opinion even though he never won the 500 Ted horn has to rank right up there. I mean it is tough to beat 8 top four finishes in a row. If you have ever read his book he never really ran full bore at the Speedway. Just imagine if he did, ahh the possibilities?!?

Bob

 

Luijie Lesovsky built the body on that car, and get this it was Mag. I heard a rumour that a guy up in the Fairmount Indiana area has it. I gotta find out, I want it if it's there.

 

couple more

 

Here's a fuzzy shot of the restored Beale/Lay sprinter at the Winchester Oldtimers' meet in the mid-90's.

Never liked that roll bar.

 

Hope there is room for 2 Rootie cause I got to go with ya.

 

The dial on my time machine would be set for 1927-28 to watch Leon Duray in his Miller 91.....

 

Hey Roy,

That quarter midget stuff is cool! I love those old vintage Q-midgets. I wanted one as a kid,but we had go-karts and mini bikes instead. My cousin Albert had a black quarter midget with gold leaf lettering-I was jealous-LOL.

 

Looks like JP got his start in Quarter Midgets.

 

Here a Mom keeps an eye on her little race driver. 1958.

 

Hell yeah! I don't mind the Quarter midget stuff at all.. Its all open wheel. On the first page, first post I made sure to post a shot of everything from 20's sprinters to midgets to quarters to set the pace wide open for any openwheel "sprint" style stuff... Thanks guys, I never dreamed this post would ride this long..

Here is my Nephew GAGE in our quarter midget. (although, I think I already posted them on here..)He runs it hard! Its unrestored and original.. Dad and I hate the color but its the real thing.(in real life its almost pink.. like pepto bismo) The dragons are kinda goofy but I'm sure in 56' they were as mean and menacing as any kid had seen.. Check out the Registered USAC water decal..





Here are some more..












Check this one out... Kinda different. Skinny tires, real hood.. more to scale.

 

Damn.. A day without a bump? Must be Friday and everyones tryin to get shit done..

I had to got to the Performance Hot rod industry trade show in Indy today.. It was pretty good. Got a new Coker catalog, and saw that the new Indy firestones are in it, with the right sizes.. BUT NO PRICE

Here is a dirt tire reference for ya'll for this years catalog..

***Notice the double diamond rears are availible in 15",17" and 19"***
They never came that way, but its cool that there doing that for hot rods...







also, I got bored at lunch waiting on my food and drew this on the paper place mat...



JD

 

Wally Campbel 1953

 

Mario 1964 at Salem Speedway (opp's Asphalt)

 

Funny you bring this up, found this the other day on e-bay (#160212952711) and got to thinking, that with the availability of these new tires, it could be the makings of a nice little repop Indy roadster. Take a sawsall to the cage, some tubing for front T-bars, a nose from mac-miller..... hmmmmmm. Now if it were just 2000 mi. closer and I was $8000 richer

 

"The OFFY Killer"
The first small block Chevy sprint car
built in 1957 by Chet Wilson. (or so the website I got it from says)

 

S'more of the Offy Killer, had some pretty good shoes behind the wheel too.

 

Josh, I went to the breakfast this morning thought I would run into you today somewhere. I am getting ready to go to work now on about 3 hrs sleep. I sat at a table right next to Alex, Pete, Vic, etc. Dunno how the heck I ended up at a front table. I have to show you what Alex signed for me and the conversation we had. What a cool guy he is!!


Roy

 

Who is in the 0 car in the pic here??
Dave

never mind .. i re read your post and checked the link.. Damn this brings back memories of the Gibson clan... I used to wrench an upright sprinter and we used to race against these guys.. The funny part was the supers used to kick our asses but now they cant even get close????
Oh ya . Love this thread..

 

The ad says it was built and driven by Gene Lee Gibson.

 

Good deal.. we were not there long. I had some art work to drop off to a couple different people. Hell, we were outta there by 11:30!

 

Gene Lee Gibson was the driver of the Flinstone Flyer series of Super Modifieds at Oswego and elsewhere. Some of those Supers were ex Indy Roadsters.....