Here is an amazing set of photos from the mid-late 60's from the Jalopy Journal. I can't even explain how cool this is.
Don't click if you don't like eye candy.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=15233
Here is an amazing set of photos from the mid-late 60's from the Jalopy Journal. I can't even explain how cool this is.
Don't click if you don't like eye candy.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=15233
Thanks.
Somewhere in our family albums there is a picture of me looking at a midget on one of those trailers. I think I was four or five and I was wearing one of those plastic racing helmets they used to make for kids. I think that explains alot about how I ended up the way I am today.
Thanks for bringing back some great memories.
50 - Jason Leffler - Treadway Racing - G-Force/Oldsmobile
Ive been fortunate to see almost all of those live when they ruled,,,, indiana kid, US40, and a team member getting picked up every weekend.. there will never be an overstatemant of the innocent romanticism of those year,, Racing before BIG business
I love the sport more than I hate the past,
That's the deal now. Nobody wants to be involved until they figure out how they can make money at it....Originally Posted by paper
Yup.
Us old pharts know nuthin' about nuthin'.
The names on some of those cars!
*sigh*
Last edited by cheeseczar; 05-10-2012 at 11:53 AM.
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I remember these well. I didn't see me in any of the photos, but if I was I'd be the guy drooling.
"You just don't know what Indy Means" Al Unser Jr.
If you click on Foyt's no. 7 it opens up to a shot of a double trailer with the dirt champ car on top and the rear engine IndyCar on the bottom...sigh...
The pic at the top of the blog is from 1967 at Springfield-it had rained and the track was incredibly heavy that day, so much that Herk caught a rut and bounced over the turn 4 concrete at the end, narrowly missing a spiked harrow and trashing the Leader Card 90 in the process.
The photos of cars on trailers and on what seems to be gravel are from mostly from DuQuoin in 1969.
There are some photos in the mix that are from Springfield in 1970, a day when the track was watered so heavy they had to use a chopper to help dry it.
"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal".
John Kennedy at American University 1963
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"
A. Lincoln
Gee - what's that in my avatar?
When folks actually were racers.
Did anyone notice in Image #65 the gold rear-engine sprinter parked on the front stretch at Springfield (?)... just behind the #53 Valvoline dirt car?
Looks like the old Harrison Spl, maybe?
"You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music." - Jim Carey
check that Torino stocker in pic #60!
Foyt car and double trailer, pic #68
"You people worry too much. Strive for change. Root for your favorites. Enjoy the racing. Drop the flag." rev-ed, 3/04
Car 21 would probably be Jack Bowsher. Back then, USAC had a stock car division.
Does anybody remember the tire rack that was mounted at the front of the trailer just above the nose of the car? Tools in the back of the station wagon? The trailers were homemade? The cockpit covers that snapped onto the car body?
Gregg Sebald
That's some good stuff.
Thanks for the pictures, good stuff. I was really interested in this topic some time ago and started a thread about it, there's some good stuff in it as well.
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/sho...tion&highlight=
The Dayton Steel Wheels Special has the same number and colors as Gregoire's and Moreno's Chastain Motorsports car. Was there a connection?
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