Looking for anyone with knowledge of this car. Supposedly driven by Bill Teeters of Muncie, Indiana. I did find his name as a driver at Lincoln Park Speedway. Any help sure appreciated.
For sale is the John Capels built sprint car featured in Circle Track Magazine in Aug. 1985. Built for dirt, but later changed over to run ESPN asphalt. Some of the drivers include Saldana, Gaerte,...
For sale is this dirt champ car. This car was owned by Carl Edwards (NASCAR) and driven as #351 by Jerry Coons. The car was being refurbished to represent a mid 60's livery car. The owner past...
Trying to find a photo of the #40 sprinter that Dan Bowlen out of Bloomington, In. drove. He finished 10th in the Little 500 that year and won some races at Kokomo. Saw it on a poster once when the...
Many thanks Chuck; if you remember and touch base with him in the spring, make a note of my email -- cars5752@suddenlink.net and drop me a message. Sure appreciate your taking time to let me know...
Thanks Jim, would be neat if it did have some history to someone in our area. I have yet to find anyone who remembers seeing this car. It's the only photo I have, and apparently it came from a...
Tried probably a few years ago, but thought I'd give it a go another time. I believe this may be one of Lloyd Shores earlier cars. May have been from the Muncie area. One possible driver what a...
I have an old Halibrand rear in a vintage sprint car. The gears I have are both the same diameter. Anything I've ever worked with before always had a small gear and a larger one, and knowing the...
Thanks for the info folks, any photo's would be awesome. I'd post a photo of the car as I now have it, but I don't see anything in this forum that addresses how to add an attachment.
I've got a sprint car that is supposedly one of the first two car that Lloyd Shores built. It's a transverse spring front/torsion rear. Built in Dec. 1971, Dan took one and Allen drove the other. ...
From the Tom Smith collection, for sale are all remaining cars including this replica D-A Lubricant car as driven by Johnny Thomson. On a 1996 Godfrey chassis, the replica car was built to be a user...
For sale is the Johnny Capels (Golden Greek) sprint car #21. This car was featured in Circle Track Magazine August 1985. Car has small block Chevrolet with on-board starter, Vintage Goodyear rear...
Recently checking on some vintage wheels for an old sprint car I'm working on. The rears are 16 inch Halibrands. My question is the fronts. The RF is a 16 inch wheel, 5.0 x 16, but the left front...
I had pretty good results on my midget by using graphite packing that you can pick up at your hardware store. It comes in different size strings. I packed the splines on the lower input shaft where...
Mac, many thanks for the great info. Last evening I was reading some of your info on Halibrand wheels, but I had never seen anything that matched the two of mine. Obviously with this info, I know...
Attached is a photo of a Halibrand wheel, 2 of which are on an older sprinter I'm refurbishing. I was hoping to get some info on this particular wheel. It is made to where the wheel pins slide in...
