New Indianapolis 500 History Website

[David_Skywalker]

Many thanks! I am getting exicted for May already!

[lotuspoweredbyford]

VERY AWESOME!!!!! Thank You so much. Like I don't get enough done at work now, this will make it worse! LOL

I've heard that from a lot of people today, glad I could help.

[lotuspoweredbyford]

With that in mind, one thought I had right away was that it would be nice (or would have been nice) if for each entry you show the original air date...to add some context.

Yeah, I thought of that, I am limited on the number of characters available on the bar, but perhaps we could work it out somehow,

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Two words:

Awe. Some.

Thanks, I really liked your comment !

[Grover]

Awesome.

If there are issues between WIBC and 1070 I understand, but if not, it sure seems like a link on the 1070 site would be a good idea.

[Offy85]

This is great! I've been listening to them while I work which was been awesome.

[lotuspoweredbyford]

This is great! I've been listening to them while I work which was been awesome.

Thank you...

Please keep the comments coming, is there anything else people want to see.

Would the expanded photo section be valuable?

[Liz]

Is there any chance of posting Jim Philippe's "Homage" narrative?
I've had so much fun listening to the website; I've even flipped over just to hear Jim Nabors sing...it makes the foulest work day better for a time! And yes, more pictures would be great!

[mitchbr]

I'm getting goosebumps every time I click, yep this site is officially awesome. Great work.

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Is there any chance of posting Jim Philippe's "Homage" narrative?
I've had so much fun listening to the website; I've even flipped over just to hear Jim Nabors sing...it makes the foulest work day better for a time! And yes, more pictures would be great!

It's a great idea, any particular year of the speech that people want to hear?

[lotuspoweredbyford]

I'm getting goosebumps every time I click, yep this site is officially awesome. Great work.

Thanks, very kind of you !

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Interested to know if you guys think I should concentrate next on the "Donald Archive" or the interview section.

[Glenn]

LPBF: That website is a work of art! Thank you so much for doing this. It is greatly appreciated.

[Mario4ever]

Very, very cool!

[indyracefan]

Hello everyone.

I wanted to let TF members know about the website I've been working on, which is finally ready to be seen.

http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

This is our new online History of the Indianapolis 500 webpage. It's still a bit of a work in progress, but for now, it will have audio and photos from the greatest sporting event in the world.

If you use the scroll bar for "Best Of Talk Of Gasoline Alley" you will get the new online vault of the great Donald Davidson's answers on drivers, team owners, and more.

Eventually it will have around 10 years worth of answers in a permanent, online archive.

If you use the scroll bar for "Indianapolis 500 Memories" you will get highlights from the last 60 plus years, plus other special items.

If you use the scroll bar for "Indianapolis 500 Interviews" you will get comments from drivers, team owners, and 500 legends on a variety of topics.

This has been a bit of a labor of love for me, and I have hundreds of hours to go before I'd consider it "done" but for now enjoy.

Please feel free to leave comments here or send me a PM, because I'd like to know what you'd like to see on the site to make it better.

Kewl!

Thanks lpbf!

[lotuspoweredbyford]

LPBF: That website is a work of art! Thank you so much for doing this. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it.

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Is there any chance of posting Jim Philippe's "Homage" narrative?
I've had so much fun listening to the website; I've even flipped over just to hear Jim Nabors sing...it makes the foulest work day better for a time! And yes, more pictures would be great!

I'm going to wait on adding the Homage speech since the King beat me to it.

Just for kevin99 I added the classic 1967 Jochen Rindt interview though.

More to come, keep sending me the suggestions.

[Lazier96]

A terrific site you developed and very much appreciated. Do you have any audio of Freddie Agabashian.

Thanks.

[Liz]

Just for kevin99 I added the classic 1967 Jochen Rindt interview though.

LOL, that was before the days of political correctness!

Are there any clips of the Purdue band playing "On the Banks of the Wabash"? One of my favorite race day moments that tends to get lost in the proceedings.

[lotuspoweredbyford]

A terrific site you developed and very much appreciated. Do you have any audio of Freddie Agabashian.

Thanks.

Funny you should mention that.

We unearthed this REALLY unique stuff, Freddie hosting a show called Champion Spark Plug's Golden Memories.

They are FULL-LENGTH interview shows. I am going to post them in full length form.

[racer47201]

LPBF, how about Eddie Sachs dinner speech where he talks about his first experience at Indy, and his good buddy KONKLE. lol

[sipowicz]

Looks great. I have already saved it to my favorites. Thanks for setting this up!

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a cool interview, Freddie Agabashian interviewing Harlan Fengler.


http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a cool interview, Freddie Agabashian interviewing Tony Hulman.

http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a cool interview, Freddie Agabashian interviewing Sam Hanks

http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a cool interview, Freddie Agabashian interviewing George Salih


http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a cool interview, Freddie Agabashian interviewing Johnny Boyd

http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[lotuspoweredbyford]

Added a really fun one, Freddie Agabashian interviewing Sid Collins


http://www.wibc.com/500history.aspx

[ZUL8TR]

It's great that you're taking the time to gather all that history in one spot. It's great to see your name back on the Forum too, even if it's just for a short time (hopefully it's for longer).

What she said!