The Historic Stock Car Photos thread has been such a success and fun, that I check with our Mod (DannyB) and got a green light to start one for Open Wheels too. Same principle, photos of Sprints, Midgets, Super Modifieds and the like maybe stretch it out to 1990 and older. Let's have some fun!
Jan Oppermans famous Bogar's 99
"Old Blue" Bob Weikerts 1971 Trevis Craft Sprinter.
"If you don't do it this year, you'll be another year older when you do"
http://www.pbase.com/davidm2
http://www.jacksracephotos.net/
Lynn Paxton's Boop's Aluminum Special. Lynn was the man to beat fro many years in this car on the Central PC curcit.
Running cagless and with the hand break.
Midget waiting fro track time.
DavidM, I'm all for it. If you can race it, I like it. Here's JR at Terre Haute in 1962...
Ted Horn at Dayton, 1948...
And who can forget Pancho in Steve Stapp's Dobbins Chevrolet Sprinter at Salem?
And here's Roy Robbins in "Fido," a champ car cut down to sprint/supermodified size by Harry Hyde. Harry "loaned" the car to Roy after the Louisville area went from supers to late models, and Roy went on a tear. He won the first Knoxville Nationals in this car. No sure who the other car is, but back in those days, 312 was used a lot by Bobby Allison in his own modified days.
The first time I saw Pancho race in person was at Williams Grove in the early 80's. It was a Dirt Champ car race and he was just amazing! Lap after lap he slid the car into turn one and taped the tail on the guardrail and shot down low into turn two. I think he nearly lapped the field.Originally Posted by indybigjohn
And who can forget Pancho in Steve Stapp's Dobbins Chevrolet Sprinter at Salem?
Art Sugai on the far right with the "Pink Lady", a 1968 Grant King car.
Pavement car, is this the winningest car ever?
Same car, Jerry Sneva 1974 CAMRA Champion
Same car, Kenny Hamilton wining Copper Classic at PIR.
Same car today, with three generations of Hamiltons.
Two of the best - New Bremen 1960
Welcome to TrackForum - the largest gathering of Self-proclaimed Racing Experts on the intenet!
Great
More time spent on the interet every night
LOL
Cant wait to see where this one goes
Faster than a bullet from a gun
He is faster than everyone
Quicker than the blinking of an eye
Like a flash you could miss him going by
No one knows quite how he does it but it's true they say
He's the master of going faster. -George Harrison
The Steffen Chevy at Williams Grove.
The Riley Special from 2009 PVGP
Old 30 x 90 or Bug as some called them.
"The Beliver" on the track at Susquehanna
This was my best friend in racing at the time, Jim Haynes, photo taken by myself at the old Sunshine Speedway.
This was a 70's vintage Grant King car. Notice the nice upholstry snapped to the bodywork. It was a big deal in our area for someone to have a car from up north, compared to our home-grown creations.
In 1983 Jim was killed during the running of the Copper World Classic.
Last edited by cbreez99; 04-06-2011 at 09:48 AM.
Ignorant men marvel at extraordinary things. Intelligent men admire simple things.
Fairgrounds in Louisville. Can anybody ID these drivers? A.S.A sprint series?
I finally got a chance to do a little scanning. Here are a few Midgets from the 1982 USAC 4 Crown Race at Eldora Speedway.
Kevin Olson
Ken Hopkins
Steve Kinser
Bill Engelhart
Kevin Olson
Larry Rice
Bill Engelhart outside, Ken Schrader inside
Any help ID'ing drivers etc. is greatly appreciated.
Thanks GapinskiNMDOTY for the ID's
Last edited by kkoether; 04-06-2011 at 07:27 PM. Reason: Thanks GapinskiNMDOTY for the ID's
Keith Koether http://www.kkraceshots.com
Ex ARCA, ASA and local bullring crewdog. I remember when racing was really racing and the Talladega Express!!!
Some Gold Crown Champ Dirt cars from the 1982 USAC 4 Crown at Eldora. Any help ID'ing drivers, types of cars etc. is greatly appreciated.
Steve Kinser in Johnny Vance's #3 Aristocrat Champ Dirt, #44 Walt Kennedy
Steve Kinser followed by Sheldon Kinser
#21 Ron Shuman, #2Rich Vogler, #6 Sheldon Kinser
#59 Ed Angle. #3n1 Smokey Snellbaker
Little Joe Saldana in the Tipp Machine and Tool Champ Dirt
Danny Milburn in the Stengers Leasing Champ Dirt
Steve Kinser in Johnny Vance's #3 Aristocrat Champ Dirt
Joe Saldana in the #70. The #17 is Ray Smith's Champ Dirt Car. Dana Carter is the driver.
Larry Rice.
Joe Saldana again. #59 Ed Angle
Steve Kinser followed by Rich Vogler.
#3n1 is Smokey Snellbaker, #78 Jim Moughan Jr.
Last edited by kkoether; 04-01-2011 at 11:38 AM. Reason: Fixed links and changed cars to Champ Dirt cars.
I dont know who was driving the Mataka 3n1 on this day but they got the # for their car from when they won 3 features in one day many years ago when Mario Andretti was their driver.Some more from the 1982 USAC 4 Crown at Eldora. Some Sprints and maybe some Champ Dirt cars. It's been too many years to remember what's what. LOL!!! Any help ID'ing drivers, types of cars etc. is greatly appreciated.
Get it? 3 in 1
going from memory, I think the tracks they won at that day were Hatfield, Nazareth and Flemington
Could be Billy Pauch in the seat
I've got to do some digging and see if I can put some names with the pictures now!
The Ben Cook house car of Van May.
This restored Al Hamilton Special get a lot of track time.
At Latimore
On the road course at Summit Point.
Turning laps at Jennerstown.
URC Sprints @ US 13 Speedway in Delaware. Summer 1990
My first racing gig. All we worked was the sprint car races. If we werent on the track I had no responsibilities. I took these photos from the top of someones hauler.
I loved those races @ US 13. I had to leave my house around noon on Saturday to hook up with my friends and ride down with them in their sprint car hauler. We were busy until 11 or midnight and when we left they were still running off the lower divisions. We used to stop at the Dennys in front of Dover Downs for a late dinner/early breakfast then finish the ride back to Jersey. By the time we got to their house then I got in my car and got home to my house it was Sunday morning and the sun was up and mom and dad were already getting ready to go to church. I think I was paid $35 a show to work the backstretch
What Id give to be 25 and have no responsibilites again if only for a few weeks!
Going only from memory...
Gary Gollub was driving the Fenimore 28. 21 years later I think hes still racing sprint cars
14t was driven by Bruce Thompson. Hes totally out of the game now. His son raced in Central PA for a couple years but he got married and started his own family and is also out of the game I believe
Fran Hogue was the driver of the yellow #39. This was the family I rode with on the faraway races Fran retired quite a few years ago and his son Tim still hits many of the URC shows still running the same #. Note the small wings. The URC mandate a 16 sq ft wing back then and ran no nose wing. sometime in the mid 90s they made their rules like everyne elses and went with the 5X5 Wing and nose wing. I think not running the same wing combo as everyone else on the east coast made it a big handicap for the URC drivers when they ran somewhere elese
Kev, Gary is still running with URC and some 410 shows. I took this one at Susky last November.
BTW US 13 or as it now call Delaware International is were I ran my first race.
Really nice guy.Do you remember when he was running big block modifieids?
I really do not like cars painted the same color as the track. Thats a bad deal just waiting to happen
The Famous Keen Brenn Offy
Photo taken form the bridge over Williams Grove. Not a wing or cage to be seen!
A progression in safety.
Fred Pete Special
Geezz! Fix one misspelling in Photobucket and I killed my posts! LOL!!! All fixed now.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks