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

In other words, Doug Howell's former car?

 

Tom
Here,s one for ya.

 

monkaz,

Once again,many thanks for the great photos!

 

not sure if Doug Howells wrenched on the campbell car[more than likely]there was a while when Mack would drive Dougs car at the local shows and Campbells car in IMCA shows.I was just starting to follow racing and didnt know many of the details.The photo you show is one of Dougs leffler cars-possibly the one I bought damaged from Dougs future son-in-law Lee Roy Grosz.I put a crude torsion bar front[I didnt know it was crude at the time lol]and ran it for a few years.car ended up in northern mn and I heard later restored

 

Larry Crockett at Reading 1954 in the Charlie Engle Offy.

 

Jimmy Bryan in the Leitenberger #45

 

Info board on the #55 Traylor car.




Info board for Traylor #9

 

Warren Harbs in the former Traylor 55 car.

 

Buildy,

I think there are some spelling errors on the 55 sandwich board. I believe it is John Hanscom, not Hanson and Warren Hobbs, not Warren Harbs - I may be wrong.

 

Thanks!

That is my uncle Jerry Karl in Dusty Thacker`s #35 behind Hobbs. I`d say 1967, or maybe 66.

I have a theory on the mis-spellings on the info boards. I sent you a message.

 

That is Warren Harbs in that car. Very sure of that !!!

 

Thank you so much......that explains a lot.....I am so glad that if I have an itch someone will give it a scratch....can I say that? Cool

 

Spike, Thanks for the correction. My 1967 photo is identified as Warren Hobbs. Harbs it is!

 

Beletsky sold the car to a Nelson. Was driven by amoung others Bob Hillis and Chuck Arnold. Beltesky bought the JH Rose chevy which Branson won with at Williams Grove opener for a timing of Nelson ownership.

 

Beletsky sold the car to Mel Nelson.

 

Is the driver walking in the foreground Dick Linder? Dick was my childhood hero.

 

I remember the Jake Vargo sprint car as a maroon and white car. I will hazard a guess and say I think the guy walking with Tommy Hinnershitz is Bobby Grimm.

 

Ur right; it is Bobby Grim, one of the all time greats.

 

Bobby Grim was one of the observers that observed me during my driver test and later was a big help giving me pointers on how to get around the speedway. Denny Z

 

I think Nelson once owned the ex Malloy/D. Carter car. I have a pic of it
at one of the early Grove Oldtimer Shows, red, white & blue, # 4.
He also owned a midget at one time.
mlight9

 

I think Mel Nelson owned the former Montgomery Offy that Mike Joseph drove in 1948. The car was a yellow and black number 1 K.K. Offy. I believe Mel ran it at Trenton in 1959.

 

You guys should know, is there a name for the 'tire deflector' things on rear radius rods or hairpins before the rear tire?

 

Tommy Hinnershitz and Bobby Grim were who came to mind when I found the photo. My guess is 1960 for the photo,but would welcome input from others who may have been around back then.

Dick Linder died in 1959,at Trenton, I believe. Checking my 1959 USAC yearbook,the Vargo car was #7 in 1959,but #5 in my photo.

 

I've heard them called "kickouts" or "side nerfs".
Bob Bogan called bumpers and nerf bars "rootin' irons". That has always been my favorite.

 

That picture of Hinnershitz and Grimm is 1960 Horn Schindler at the Grove.

Mel Nelson also owned the car George Amick was killed in. I seem to remember bill Randall trying to qualify it at Trenton.

 

Thanks ,Jim!

I picked the picture up in a box of Misc. photos at York Dirt Trakin a few yrs ago.

 

It cost me a grand total of 50 cents-LOL

 

Linder was killed at Trenton, but in the Vargo champ car, not the sprinter.

 

I always heard them called "nerf bars". With the narrow tires back then, cars would sometimes lock wheels, or get a wheel inside the other guys wheel. This made for terrible double flips. The nerf bars stopped this in most cases.

 

Yes,I think that Vargo champ car was the last ride for several drivers.