What is going on with the Smith Speed Shop Cars. I was given a tour in 1996 and everything was un touched.....I think I saw 2 engines 2 sprint cars and 1 Big Car just asking .

There is a guy, up in the northeast, named Fiore, who claims to have one of the old Smith "oilers", a spring front Stapp.

If Joe Fiore says he has one then he does. Joe knows as much about the history of sprint cars as anyone I've ever met. And a more honest guy you won't find.

I am talking in the shop right now...this must be a locked down double down securert ....but I bet some body knows.....

As far as I know, Smith had three sprint cars, two four bar cars(origin unknown to me) and one spring front Stapp car.........

And I will bet it's all still there, in Eaton , May be I should just keep my mouth shut out of respect.... but I would like to see those cars again.

I will second this statement.

The Fiore Family had a long history with the United Racing Club and today Joe is kept busy with his restoration business.

One of the cars that I KNOW that he does own is the Agajanian Dirt Car

Probably the last spring front dirt champ car ever built. Built by Luigi Lesovsky.

I'm just finishing a new Agajanian Watson roadster for a customer:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/Albu...&a=32355963&f= Agajanian
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/Albu...&a=31517032&f= Fike

I'm not sure how many cars the Smith's had over the years, but I'm sure that there were more the four mentioned in the one reply.

When I was at Winchester in 98 or 99 for the oldtimers, there was some sporty-car lookin kid with a car that was supposedly a Smith car. The overall restoration wasn't bad but the color was far from correct.

FWIW, I think the last spring front champ dirt cars were probably built by Steve Stapp in the mid-seventies. The car Opp was hurt in was one of those cars.

Allan Wilkinson