I am starting to get items together for my booth this year. I'll be right near the front door with helmets, uniforms, pennants, decals, and much more. Stop by, introduce yourself and say you are from...
How about sprint car trophies? There are sprint car trophies from Foyt, Andretti, Rutherford, Branson, & Bobby Grim in the upcoming auction, plus trophies from other types of cars from McElreath,...
A lot of us have racing items that are special to us. Sometimes other people just don't get it. After speaking at Jimmy McElreath's funeral I was gifted his Goodyear Racing jacket. I was probably...
I know Milwaukee has gone through different configurations but this is how it looked about 5-10 years ago and I don't think this is a match to that Hewitt photo.
I did not get to know James, but did spend some time with his dad. Here are James' and his sister Shirley Ann's jackets I donated to the Museum of American Speed just last week in his honor.
Yes, Chitwood had an amazing run during the summer of 1942. He was driving for Hank O'Day, the same car he was driving for the 1939 AAA Eastern Sprint Car Series championship.
Last year I pulled a travel trailer from Texas for Sprint Week. I knew I was not going to stay in one place the whole time so I set up the travel trailer at Kokomo on Friday. There were many RVs and...
According to Allan Brown's great book The History of America's Speedways Past & Present, there have been many as mentioned above. This listing is from the 1994 edition of the book. There may be some...
Belleville, KS is a short driver from Lincoln. You have USAC midgets and Silver Crown there May 19-20. The Highbanks are fast. I'll be driving up from Texas for that weekend.
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You're welcome. It has been a blast to go through the items and find out the back story of some items. Like the Exercise Muscle Machine (Lot 7672) from Rutherford. He told me Eddie Sachs gave the...
The Kraft Auctions 46th Anniversary Antique & Collectible Auction will include items from the personal collections of racing legends Bobby Unser, Johnny Rutherford, and Jim McElreath.
