Semi official cool old Indy car pics thread

**Ovalmeister** · 09-22-2009 09:24 AM

Gary Bettenhausen Armstrong 46

**Ovalmeister** · 09-22-2009 09:28 AM

AJ 1986

**sneva33** · 09-22-2009 03:14 PM

Ed Carpenter 2007 Daytona tire test

**sneva33** · 09-22-2009 03:15 PM

Scott Dixon 2007 Daytona tire test

**sneva33** · 09-22-2009 03:16 PM

Vitor Meira 2007 Daytona tire test

**sneva33** · 09-22-2009 03:18 PM

Dan Wheldon 2007 Daytona tire test

**sneva33** · 09-22-2009 03:19 PM

Mikey Daytona tire test 2007

**cbreez99** · 09-22-2009 07:30 PM

a bit of sugar....

**cbreez99** · 09-22-2009 07:39 PM

Ok...which one of you guys is in my way! I think that's McQueeny...

Emmo, Rahal, Roberto! start of Molson GP

I loved this car...says it all...but he didn't qualify at Indy! Who is it???

**cbreez99** · 09-22-2009 08:07 PM

Brabham

Roberto in a CART car!

**ZOOOM** · 09-22-2009 09:07 PM

Gentlemen, I thank you!

This post is now almost 700 posts long and aproaching 20,000 views!
All of which are far beyond my wildest dreams.
Thanks again and KEEP IT GOING!

ZOOOM

**indycar3** · 09-22-2009 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Ovalmeister

Your welcome. I love the "different" angles. Not often that you can look down into the cockpit of an Indy car. We need more people to post photos....I think we are gonna run out someday! LOL
David.

"Run out of pictures"? Trust me, I don't think Sneva33 will ever run out of pictures. Going to Indy/other races for the last 32yrs(and still counting), there will be alot more pictures to be posted.

Mrs Sneva33

**indyrjc** · 09-22-2009 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by cbreez99

I loved this car...says it all...but he didn't qualify at Indy! Who is it???

It's Phil Caliva in his 83 March. Unfortunately, this was in 1984 and the old Marches generally didn't work at all on the 1984 Goodyears. Phil put this team together and borrowed and raised the money himself; his family was from Sicily so that's where the American Dream name came from. There was also a new 1984 March that Phil was supposed to run but he somehow got moved aside by his brother-in-law (who was in on the money raising and spending side of the deal) in favor of Pancho Carter who made the race. Phil took nearly ten years to pay back everyone that he had borrowed money from in full. And he and his brother-in-law are still not on speaking terms.

**cbreez99** · 09-22-2009 09:47 PM

Thanks, I took the shot but I didn't know the story. Great story . I remember that year, he just didn't have the speed.

**DaveL** · 09-22-2009 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by ZOOOM

Gentlemen, I thank you!

This post is now almost 700 posts long and aproaching 20,000 views!
All of which are far beyond my wildest dreams.
Thanks again and KEEP IT GOING!

ZOOOM

I'm running out of pictures, but I'll keep digging.

**ellswrth** · 09-22-2009 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by cbreez99

Emmo, Rahal, Roberto! start of Molson GP

That's the start of the first Molson Indy Toronto in 1986 I think.

It seems like the photographer is standing in the middle of the pit lane, but there's a lot of foreshortening on that shot - did you take it yourself?

**Ovalmeister** · 09-23-2009 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by indycar3

"Run out of pictures"? Trust me, I don't think Sneva33 will ever run out of pictures. Going to Indy/other races for the last 32yrs(and still counting), there will be alot more pictures to be posted.

Mrs Sneva33

Awesome! The photos so far have brought back a ton of memories! Keep 'em coming.

David.

**Ovalmeister** · 09-23-2009 08:38 AM

Andretti 1995

**Ovalmeister** · 09-23-2009 08:39 AM

Scott Brayton 1995

**Ovalmeister** · 09-23-2009 08:43 AM

Now this is my kind of gas station!
David.

**cbreez99** · 09-23-2009 09:02 AM

Yes, I took that shot in Toronto! I was in the pit lane but behind the wall. That particular starting line area and pit lane had a bend in it. Just out of view are Guererro and Sullivan.

**mlv** · 09-23-2009 09:43 AM

Dennis Firestone, Indy 1980
Official press photo from 1980 Jack Rhoades Racing Team press kit.

**Calhoun** · 09-23-2009 09:49 AM

All from Fast Friday 1979:

Spike Gelhausen

Steve Krisiloff

Hurley Haywood

Tom Bagley

**Jamski** · 09-23-2009 10:22 AM

Spike Gelhausen

Hurley Haywood

Calhoun, you rock! These are two of my favorites, the last "lay-down" Offy machines. Very cool! The Hopkins car is the one JP eventually drove in the race, and the Gehlhausen machine was eventually bounced off the wall by Bill Alsup in the unusual 5th qualifying day precipitated by the wastegate scandals.

The 19, as I recall, had a story done on it in the Star in the days leading up to the race, and there was great hope for it. Spike was a pretty fair qualifier and the car had shown some speed...Alsup got it up to 188+ prior to his wreck. I think this is the ex-Fletcher Eagle Bobby Unser ran in 76...and believe it eventually went to Bill Tempero, who put a Chevy in it and ran the 1980 CART schedule. Jim Buick got it next and comprehensively trashed it in the consi at the Michigan 500.

**sneva33** · 09-23-2009 10:26 AM

Ovalmeister, I LOVED that shot of Vern Schuppan's helmet. I always try to get a clear shot of helmets that are either of one of my favorite drivers or is somehow "different" grahphically. That one of Vern's is certainly a nice looking helmet. Thanks,

Dudley