Re: New Name for Midgets Needed?
 

I hope none of this leaks out, you're all just kidding, right? Stop and think, how would you explain any of these "new names" to anyone, get real, let it be what it's been for the past 20yrs anyway, beyond that, people thunk! Bob:8:

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What a wonderful display of intelligent, fertile, active minds on this thread. I love it!!! You would almost think it was raining this weekend and we didn't have any races to attend. For what it is worth, I think speedcars is sort of cool.

Re: New Name for Midgets Needed?
 

Originally Posted by cecil98:
actually, we might as well pick a new name for sprint cars, as well. when I tell the average joe that we are involved in automobile racing, they will inevitably ask "what kind?" when I tell them sprint cars I always get a blank stare or, the question "those ones that look like a dune-buggy?????" :15:

It beats the heck out of telling some casual fan the Jeff Gordon used to drive a sprint car and their reply "Used to????" :14:

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A. m. scutellata

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“Bullet!” A what? A nine hundred pound Bullet!!!!!!!!

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Since the name kenyon already refers to another kind of Midget I would pick to call them Voglers. That way whenever someone wondered about the name they would in turn get a valuable history lesson.

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How about...short sprint or small sprint?:16

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In the beginning, all race cars were called just that -- racing cars.
Then along came this term -- midgets, and then sprint cars, and then stock cars, and then champ cars, and then dirt champ cars, and then winged sprint cars, and, and, and.
It is amazing how many people think that when you like sprint cars, you might be a fan of Dale Earnhardt Jr., or Jimmie Johnson and go to races at places like Talladega or Daytona.
I just tell people I'm going to an auto race. If they ask what kind, then I assume they're intelligent enough to understand the term midgets, sprint cars or sport compacts. If they say NASCAR, I just smile and go on.
I think it is goofy to try to add yet another term to a vocabulary already diluted with terms the common person does not understand. I didn't know what a midget was when I saw my first race at Salem Speedway, but I was quickly impressed.

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I had a cousin that was going to races at Paragon several years ago, where he thought he was seeing buggy races rather than sprint cars. I got a laugh out of that.

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they have been known as midgets as far back as the 30s why change that if the average joe dont now what they are do you think they will know any better if we called them somthing else, some of the biggest racers of the past 5o or so years have run a midget at some point if you change the name you lose the history besides jack hewitt never wone the speedway car or bullet car or what ever half cocked name you come up with portion of the four crown nationals.a midget is a midget. if you dont understand what folks are talking about when they talk about midgets your never going to understand and as far as the little pepole go i think they called the race cars midgets long before little folks got a proper tittle

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Originally Posted by jack hewitt fan:
they have been known as midgets as far back as the 30s why change that if the average joe dont now what they are do you think they will know any better if we called them somthing else, some of the biggest racers of the past 5o or so years have run a midget at some point if you change the name you lose the history besides jack hewitt never wone the speedway car or bullet car or what ever half cocked name you come up with portion of the four crown nationals.a midget is a midget. if you dont understand what folks are talking about when they talk about midgets your never going to understand and as far as the little pepole go i think they called the race cars midgets long before little folks got a proper tittle

Thats it man, call em anything you want few people understand or care. Thats the problem with alot of todays stuff, first it's all built on a throw away mentality. And second theres just so much different things going on that it all gets dilluted some. Thats why I dont care what anybody says, decades ago all the best raced together, five nights a week. Were they better cause of it ? Hell ya they were. Theres a reason midgets and nonwinged sprints havent hardley ever changed, cause they are the best, purist race vehicle there is. I was watching nascrap stuff on tv this morning and my stomach was turning. First off if your looking in a mirror and are talking to people when your racing, what the :21:. If you have time to play with a radio you aint racing. Then dont even get me started bout winning a race in the pits or by keeping your foot out of it to conserve fuel. If you aint going as fast as you can at all times you aint racing.