x Schmidt/Meskowski sprint car

mlight9 · 10/24/11, 11:28 AM

am looking for info re the x Schmidt sprint car #44, Meskow. #8,
sold to a Long (Long Olds/Pontiac) in 1963. car driven by a Wayne Wolfe. possibly drove car with outlaw sprints @ Bloomington in '63.
entered @ W. Grove 3-31-63, DNQ.
mechanic shown as a Buck Burkhart. no known state, city or town.

info on HAMB, pg. 823, #16449 & 16452 (hope this is permissible).
any ideas or info as to post '63 history welcome. (i.e. car is in local garage, intact but dusty, yeah, right)
Thanks,
mlight9

buck2 · 10/24/11, 11:42 PM

I know a fellow named Buck Burkhart who works in the service dept at Gates Automotive Group in Martinsville, IN. He has told me about a sprint car he was involved with that had a Pontiac engine back in the 60's. No mention of the history of the chassis. He is listed in the staff section of their website. Probably a long shot...

racerjim2 · 10/25/11, 9:17 AM

There was a Wayne Wolfe who raced supermods in southern Indiana in the 60's.

cecil98 · 10/26/11, 3:14 PM

Wayne Wolfe was a regular at Lawrenceburg back in the 60's. I remember him driving a #55, and Ross Smith drove a Pontiac powered sprinter for a couple of years at the burg in the early 60's....it was purple and white with a single digit # on it (#4???). I believe a guy they called "Woody" (who worked for MagnaFlux) had involvement with the pontiac powered car...

10/24/11, 11:28 AM	#1 x Schmidt/Meskowski sprint car
mlight9 Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 27	am looking for info re the x Schmidt sprint car #44, Meskow. #8, sold to a Long (Long Olds/Pontiac) in 1963. car driven by a Wayne Wolfe. possibly drove car with outlaw sprints @ Bloomington in '63. entered @ W. Grove 3-31-63, DNQ. mechanic shown as a Buck Burkhart. no known state, city or town. info on HAMB, pg. 823, #16449 & 16452 (hope this is permissible). any ideas or info as to post '63 history welcome. (i.e. car is in local garage, intact but dusty, yeah, right) Thanks, mlight9

10/24/11, 11:42 PM	#2 Re: x Schmidt/Meskowski sprint car
buck2 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 294	I know a fellow named Buck Burkhart who works in the service dept at Gates Automotive Group in Martinsville, IN. He has told me about a sprint car he was involved with that had a Pontiac engine back in the 60's. No mention of the history of the chassis. He is listed in the staff section of their website. Probably a long shot...

10/25/11, 9:17 AM	#3 Re: x Schmidt/Meskowski sprint car
racerjim2 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 488	There was a Wayne Wolfe who raced supermods in southern Indiana in the 60's.

10/26/11, 3:14 PM	#4 Re: x Schmidt/Meskowski sprint car
cecil98 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,399	Wayne Wolfe was a regular at Lawrenceburg back in the 60's. I remember him driving a #55, and Ross Smith drove a Pontiac powered sprinter for a couple of years at the burg in the early 60's....it was purple and white with a single digit # on it (#4???). I believe a guy they called "Woody" (who worked for MagnaFlux) had involvement with the pontiac powered car...