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black bart

black bart

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When I was much younger I drove a sprint car and campaigned it in the Tri-State area.

They are having a Old Timers day at Winchester Speedway and I'm looking forward to seeing guy's that I have not seen since I raced with them 50 years ago. :bigups
 
Well I for one wish you well!! I can only imagine the memories of racing fifty years ago having never done it.

I hope you are taking the Vette!!
 
I hope that several show up.
Bobby Grim died a couple years ago of cancer.
He was living in Florida.
Several that I raced with were killed.

We did not have roll bars.
We didn't have a shoulder harness or neck restraint.
We didn't have nomex fire suits.
Back in the 50's we had a saying.
Their are OLD sprint car drivers
Their were BOLD sprint car drivers but their are no old bold sprint car drivers because they did not live that long.
Many times a roll over was fatal.

Their will be several really old cars their and the drivers that drove them will take them to the track.
They will run them pretty hard but not to the point of taking a chance on wrecking them.

For many people that will be their this will be the only time they have actually seen one of these old car run.
 
Well I had a good time and saw people that I have not seen in years.:bigups

They had a lot of old cars their and some of them were the ones that I raced against 50 years ago.

They even looked just like they did back then with same color scheme and all.

They also had a USAC Sprint car program.
The feature race was won by Levie Jones driving the car owned by Casey Kane of NASCAR.
 
:sorry: I did not take a camera with me.

I guess I deserve a :kick:

It was really cool to see those old sprint cars running on the track again after 50 years.

Some of the sprint cars were much older, one was a 1929 power by a Howell :bigups,
 
Ya, if you had taken a picture I would not have to ask, "What is a Howel?' I could simply look at the picture. Now don't you feel guilty for making me work my fingers to the bone typing on the computer keyboard.:lol2:
 
cwcad said:
Ya, if you had taken a picture I would not have to ask, "What is a Howel?' I could simply look at the picture. Now don't you feel guilty for making me work my fingers to the bone typing on the computer keyboard.:lol2:
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Well I don't know how car savy you are but the Howell is like the Wayne Chevrolet the Ardun Fords the Horning Chevrolet's by that I mean it was a cylinder head package.

A Howell was based on a Model A Ford engine and the Howell converted it to a dual overhead cam engine.

Don't sound like much but in 1929 it was about as good as anything available.

In the 40's a few sprints were powered with a 6 cylinder Chevy with a Wayne head on it.

When I drove a sprint car two popular engines were the Ranger and the Hisso.

I drove a Ranger and while in my later years of driving the small block chevy was gaining favor at that time they did not have enough cubic inches to compete with the Ranger engine.

Now you are going to ask what is a Ranger. :D
 
I won't ask... this time... but I am totally appreciative of your response on the Howell. Information is always good especially when it comes from one who lived it. Thanks!!
 
cwcad said:
I won't ask... this time... but I am totally appreciative of your response on the Howell. Information is always good especially when it comes from one who lived it. Thanks!!
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The RANGER was a world war two aircraft engine it was built by the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation.

It was a air cooled all aluminum engine and only weighted 360 lbs.

When you install a fighter plane engine in a
1500 lb. car the power to weight ratio is awesome.:D
 
Man, I go shopping for school brown bag lunch for Little Detailer and you get a response in while I was away.

Air cooled 360 pounds engine. Wow!! Thanks again!!
 
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