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

not sure if you have seen these "Pappy"

 

sorry

 

Great Looking car Dean Lowe... Still in the family?




IUSAC NDIANA SPRINT WEEK IS THIS WEEK..

Starting Wend...

7/9 - Lawrenceburg
7/10- Lawrenceburg
7/11- Gas City
7/12- Gas City
7/13- Kokomo
7/14- Kamp Motor Speedway
7/15- Blomington
7/16- Tri-State


I'll be at L Burg on Wend.

JD

 

Racer12... I scaned that picture out of an old "SPRINT CAR PICTORIAL" I'll check it out and see if it has an Artists name. And a way to get a print..


Hey, thanks alot corngrower. Let me know what you find out. Also I love the work you and your dad do! Will you be at jungle park this year with any of your cars? Went canoeing there today, I just love going to that place!

Bob

 

Hey Josh - I got my latest issue of "Street Rodder" over the weekend - Great story and photos !! Congratulations!!

 

josh will be at every race indiana sprint week have admired your truck whenever i go to the burg.chomping at the bit to see the new track.cant wait to see midgets on it midget week.i have quite a few pictures of our older race cars i will scan and post.
see you on wednesday.i,ll be under pavillion s-10 with il.plates.
ben andres

 

I got too much going right now to make any indiana sprint week stuff .. We did ride the harley to angola indiana for the MSA supers and wolverine outlaw midgets saturday night and ive gotta say the supers put on a great show.. The midgets were so so and we didnt see the a main cause they threw in a 50 lap mod a main so we headed out after the super a main.. Qiute a few double duty ISMA and MSA cars..
Dave

 

I have to ditto Josh's observation of the Sat. nite racing at the 'burg. The track was super rough, but the sprint show was outstanding. The facility is unbelieveable. I wonder how many people lost their ass at the casino to pay for it? Their loss our gain!

I was their with my wife and BZNeil, and talked with Josh and his Mom and Dad... family entertainment at its best.

Blacki Suede

 

ill have to bring in some pics to work and scan them and post em, i have about 40 old dirt track sprint car photo's that a buddy of mine found in a dump in an envolope, i dont know how he found them but they are bad ass, and he gave then to me!

a bunch of them are dated sep 1941.

JEFF

 

Yes Titus, can't wait!

Thanks Al Consoli.

USAC1960... I'll look for ya. I'll be parked on the backstretch.. Probably in my Hot Rod. Come on down and see me.

JD

 

Check out the new HAMB "albums" feature. I just set up seven albums of my cars and I hope that others will also set up their albums.
Have a look at my new HAMB albums at:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/album.php?u=25869

mac miller in INDY

 

Sweet..
Dave

 

here ill give it a whirl on 3 pics

JEFF

 

whoops, ill get it figured out sometime! but at least you get the point, click on the one that doesnt show up, i love the tow car.

JEFF

 

Hey, guys. Just got back to the board after getting my new computer up and running. I missed it. BAD. Corngrower, I hope you don't mind, I take some of your pics and post them on my corner of usadragracingchat.com. Mos of the drag racers from your area are familiar with you, and they dig it. They asked me to be the ipso-facto "oval" and history rep for the site some time back. The photo of your dad's shop was a big hit.

 

Don't mind at all!


I love showing that Shop picture to old drag racers cause they IMEDIATLY say, "WHere did you get those Willy's doors off of THOSE cars!" ...There fakes just to play with people.

For a whole summer I carried that Stone, Woods and Cook door in the back of my C-dan to shows, and would just throw my stuff in on it, like I didn't know it was there... Guys would shit! "What are you doing!! Do you know what that is!!" I did it the next summer with the "Big John" door and some guys started to figure it out.


JD

 

Nice article of your sprint car in the new Street Rodder. Gonna race 'er at Lawrenceburg Wed. & Thurs.?
Wudda mean you don't think it'd pass the USAC tech?!!!

 

I would in a second.. Those that have known me for a while would back that. I look forward to making laps in it somewhere. Dad and I both.
The article turned out great.. The phone is ringing non stop.

Busy busy..

JD

 

HHHMMMMMMM Do I since some more donuts in the future at the Louisville NAts this year Josh??? Just wait for me to get my T-mod and will make a day of it.. Hope to meet up with everybody at Lawrenceburg on Thurs. C-YA, Ryan

 

No donuts.. I found out that, Louisville.. being a state park, means STATE COPS! They didn't think donuts were as cool as I did.

My plans changed.. Not going to the Miller Meet, I'll be at the burg. Last night was killer. My man Jon Stanbro started 16th and charged to third only to have a right rear explode coming out of two. As dad used to say when we would loose a tire.. "We gotta quit buying that cheap air.. lets get the good stuff!"

Dad always had a way of easing the tension of a hard night of racing.


So... I'll see a few of you down there tonight! DRIVE YOUR HOT ROD!! We all park on the back stretch. GREAT SEATS!! It cost an extra ten bucks to get you hot rod in there, but it worth it.

JD

 

You guys suck.. thats a long haul and ive got to work tomorrow I was gonna try gas city friday but thats a no go also...
Dave

 

First post. A friend let me know about this particular thread and it's a great one. So here's a link to a bunch of post-WW2 sprint cars/big cars from Langford Speedway in Victoria, BC, Canada. They had many cars from Seattle and Portland come up to help the locals have a good Saturday night show.

http://members.shaw.ca/gforce-2/Langford_Speedway.html

Just click the page and then individual photos. All come from around 1947 and 1948.
cheers,
bp

 

Great Pictures BP! A rear engine, and a glass hauler! Man, check these out guys. Lots of good shots..

 

Glad there's some things of interest for you.

The Howard Stanley rear-engined car was the first of two built by legendary Victoria mechanic Jack Smith. He raced in the 1920s, formed the club that built and ran Langford Speedway, and built a number of race cars over the years. He passed away in the mid-1970s and was posthumously entered into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame a couple years ago.

A good bit of info on Jack can be found here:

http://www.victoriaautoracinghalloffame.com/jacksmith/jacksmith.html

A page as well on Grant King who started building sprint cars back when he was in high school:

http://www.victoriaautoracinghalloffame.com/grantking/grantking.html

The City of Tacoma car was owned by Leo Dobry, who had an entry or two in the Indianapolis 500 back then. Not sure if that's the Indy car for exhibition purposes or what. Lots of bucks behind his cars.
cheers,
bp

 

I took my new camera to the USAC show at the Burg last week. I got to thinking about old pictures I like and remembered how much I like Pit shots, so I got some.

Then I got to thinking about a comparison..

Here ya go. Cool in some aspects.. Sad in others.

Haulers Then...





Now...




Pit crew Then,



now,




Track vehicle then,



now





Starting sprinters then,



now




Backin' it in then,



Now,




Trailer then,



now,



Team then,




Now,


Here are some other good pictures.

USAC's new "Headquarters" rig.



Here is the Hoffman sprinter. If you look closely you can see my blue GMC truck bed with my tan fold out chair and Mikes 32' just above the roll bar.




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One of the best preforming Sprint cars teams in the last few years!! Jon Stanbro's Fox Bros. car..



Those Feature win stickers are for THIS YEAR ONLY!! (last years fuel tank went 5 rows wide. We tried to buy it but they kept it)

 

I recently made a GOOD friend who has been involved with everything from Half Moon Bay to the INDY 500 and he let me scan some pictures from his scrapbook. The scrapbooks earliest date is 1953 and ends in 1961, 'John' has been involved in everything from 'Hardtops', Midgets, 'Open Comp Modifieds', Indy Cars, Stock Cars, NASCAR, not to mention Customs and Drag Racing. I would of never guessed his lifes journey when I first met him, goes to show you never know! All the photos are from newspapers and I tried to keep them as large as possible. I thought you guys might enjoy and I have LOTS more if you would like them posted. There are alot of 'death' clippings I have choose not to post as I was unsure how they would be recieved, I respect those who have died doing what they loved, but then again they might want to be remembered, your call. Living in todays 'Politically Correct' world I can actually appreciate how 'Matter of Fact' it used to be. You can right click on the thumb nails, 'Open Link' and then enlarge the clippings. Enjoy, Rocky

 

More!

 

Very cool, TOYMAKER.

 

Old timers day at Mt Lawn speedway New Castle Indiana, Sat July 19th 11:00 am to 4:00 pm with the last 1 1/2 to 2 hrs allowed for track time for vintage race cars.