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Offline floydjer

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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2020, 01:53:52 PM »
Forgot to ask...OK Woody..What do you have going with Zakira's?? Bowle's  Special replica lakester??
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2020, 03:14:46 PM »
Quote from: Seldom Seen Slim on May 24, 2020, 02:03:30 PM
....Here's why:  On the 30th of May, 1961, my dad and I (13 years old at  the time) were sitting in the fifth row about 200 yards down the track from the finish line at Indy.  Mel Torme had sung "Back Home Again in Indiana", the cars were started and went around on the parade lap and then the pace car pulled off and 32 Offys and Jack Brabham in the Lotus roared past us at full song.  They sprayed a mean fog of methanol exhaust on Dad and me..

Hey I was there then or maybe '62 (can't remember which) but not in the good seating.  In turn 3 on the inside watching cars go by single file  :-(.  Hitch-hiked from St. Louis with a friend and slept in the back of someone's car sitting up a couple blocks from the speedway where all the streets were closed for parking and corner parties.  Saw the race but didn't know much about what was going on due to our seating.  Hitch-hiked part of the way home later that day and the rest of the way the next day.

It was an experience, not at the top of the list but glad I did it,

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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2020, 03:41:32 PM »
Jer, I took those pix in 2010 at an SAE meeting we had there. They were trying to transition to CAD at the time and I offered my services but they declined - but if there is a lakester there I might have to annoy them again!  :naughty
They actually hot rod & race Millers!  :cheers: :cheers:
I'll put the rest of my Zakira pix in the previous folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qngjdebymbbpsa1/AABp9FPeEu3ORB1GkTPxxnhca?dl=0
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2020, 03:57:30 PM »
Ah...Josh & co. were prepping her for the trip to Goodwood would be my guess.
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2020, 06:15:24 AM »
Quote from: Stan Back on May 25, 2020, 01:52:23 PM
I'd guess that competitors didn't pay for spark plugs in those days. 
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At one time they gave plugs away at Speed Week.
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2020, 07:24:19 AM »
     I thought I had finally become a real racer when Art Chrisman gave me a new Autolite for my BSA single to "try" during Speedweek '71  :-D

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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #21 on: May 28, 2020, 04:33:12 PM »
May 30 was the day I would turn on the garage radio to listen to ?the greatest spectacle in racing? while I washed and waxed my Dad?s 1953 Cadillac in our Chicago driveway.
1956 winner Pat Flaherty and Swede?s tavern was a few blocks away. I caught the Western Avenue street car in front of GRANCOR (Granatelli Corporation) to ride to high school. Lots in Indy in Chicago then. Oh, and the Bettenhausens, too.
The first (?) theater pay-per-view race I watched in 1964. Mickey Thompson?s ?roller skate? cars were fueled with enough gasoline to drive the 500 non-stop. Dave McDonald crashed his on lap 2 ? stopping the race that day. I didn?t go back to see the rest of the race. When he ricocheted of the wall he was t-boned by Eddie Sachs. The full gasoline tank splashed into Sachs? car and both drivers were incinerated. I had been at the earlier Time Trial where Eddie Sachs was interviewed and his humorous banter was infectious. Felt like I knew the guy.
Went to the Indy Time Trials about 10 times. From the top 1st corner grandstand you could watch the whole qualifying run ? one car at a time. The Novi V8s were always the loudest. Turbochargers ruined all that. Went to the race 4 times. We had Milwaukee Journal press passes and watched from the pit stands. We could actually walk on the track as the cars were being lined up for the start.
THE GREATEST SPECTACLE IN RACING??? YES!!!
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #22 on: May 28, 2020, 05:04:30 PM »
Dick:

Years ago, when I worked for Sunnen Products Company, we shared an Indy garage with Monroe shocks for the entire month. We were lucky to have ?pins? that allowed us complete access to track and pits. One of the best times I had as a non racer.

John
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #23 on: May 28, 2020, 06:20:14 PM »
I remember listening with my dad on Memorial Day.  He died in early 1950, so it had to be earlier than that.

The biggest attendance at a one-day sports event in the world was the Indy 500 ? year after year.

The 2nd place?  First day of qualifying for the 500.

And now I hardly care.  "Push for Pass"?  I'll pass.
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #24 on: May 28, 2020, 07:43:32 PM »
...and the week after Indy was the Milwaukee Mile Speedway race. Every year!
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #25 on: May 29, 2020, 10:13:35 AM »
I was fortunate enough to get to walk about a mile and a half of the track before the race in 1969... Mario won... the banks are not as evident on TV... they are tall.... especially if you are carrying a Sousaphone  :-o
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #26 on: May 29, 2020, 12:05:54 PM »
Totally unrelated to this thread but ......Woody; your reply #17 you linked some pics.

In P1010317.JPG is that a Kellison plug, repro body, or....?

It reminds me of something I saw in LA at Petersen's on the way to visit SW but cannot for the life of me remember the make - I want to say Boswell / Bosley (shades of Happy Days).

I can find the image but not the name http://www.neautomuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/p2-13.jpg

Sorry for the detail - does anyone make cars that have this rightness anymore?
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #27 on: May 29, 2020, 01:46:29 PM »
Ferrari Barchetta?
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #28 on: May 29, 2020, 02:14:51 PM »
Not seeing the Cavalino Rampante there.
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Re: No INDY 500
« Reply #29 on: May 29, 2020, 02:27:13 PM »
It is the 1954 Bosley
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