Your First Racing T-Shirt?
 

I think mine was Jan Opperman's U.S.C.R.Y. (UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN RACING YOUTH?) T-shirt. The year? early 70-ish. Again, I can't really trust my memory on any of this, but that's the best I can remember.

Do you remember yours? I hope you remember better than can I.

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Bubby Jones I was probably 7 or 8 years old.

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I also had a Bubby T-shirt. It was the "Stormin' Norman Bruce Cogle Ford" variety. Is that the one you had?

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Gregg,

I cant remember which one I had but I had one sorry! If I remember right the car was tan on it does that help at all?

Kyle

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Jimmy Shampine in about 1974..........I too had a Bubby Jones/Gaschem T in the early 80's.:thumb

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Kevin Briscoe in the Briscoe Mobile Holmes special #5 ! 1984

Chuck

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One of those old STP T-shirts that Andy Granatelli gave out to the crews at the Little 500 about 72 - 73 .

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Kyle, I'm not sure if there was a car on it at all. Believe it or not, I still have quite a few old racing T-shirts still packed away somewhere. Maybe some day I'll get them out and have a look.

I also had a powder blue T-shirt years ago with a picture of a Cosworth midget engine on both sides and C-O-S-W-O-R-T-H spelled out in big letters. I wore it to Eldora to a race and a guy tried to buy the darn shirt right off my back! He offered me as I recall up to $20 when I actually paid about $7 or $8 for it. I did not sell it to him.

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Some of my earliest shirts where:
-Bettenhausen Evil Knievel Indy Car
-FT.Wayne Indoor Midget Event (80)
-Terre Wente Skoal Midget

-One that had a girl in a bikini and midget on it and a slogan that said:"If you can't race it or take it to bed; it ain't worth havin'"

I've never been a big racing T-Shirt guy, but I have had a few.

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same for me.......it was a STP tee shirt. my favorite first racing apparell was a Wynn`s Friction Proofing jacket you could earn buy selling a ton of that stuff. Also used to get racing stuff by catching the Gates fan belt mystery man....i got him once. anyone else catch him?:checkered:

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Bettenhausen racing. (the one on the left in the photo below). It, along with several other old shirts, are now the property of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum.


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My first Non Wing t-shirt was a Gary Fisher EVANS Bottle shop shirt

And I believe my first Winged sprint t shirt(before I learned wings were bad) LOL Was a Bobby Davis Jr. Casey Luna Ford shirt.... Beautiful car Id Love to find that shirt and a couple pics of that car in its glory years... BDJ Era

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Ahhh yes, I remeber that one well David. I think I still have mine.

Ferkel's placement in the pic is interesting. The big 0 on the wing makes it almost looks like he has a halo.

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A Dave Darland #36d - Beachy Engines/Earlywine Racing shirt when I was five years old.

I can't seem to fit into a youth small anymore. I'll try to eat more salad so I can wear it to the track next year. :wink

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I'm sure mine was a 1982 Oxford 250 shirt. Surely I still have it. That was way before I started watching sprintcars.

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Mine was a Ventura Raceway tee shirt with two TQ's on it. I was 4 years old. Three Quarter Midget Racing was huge in the '80's at Ventura.

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I bought both of my first racing shirts on the same weekend and they are on the bottom of a dresser full of t-shirts that have.....shrunk in size over the years :rolling

A Sammy Swindell Old Milwaukee shirt and a Lloyd K Stephens Ofixco Special shirt with Ronnie Shuman.

My first USAC shirt and I still have it is a Roy Caruthers shirt (aka "Pizza Man" if your reading Roy Boy..inside joke) from the 5c Crucean years I believe 1991 or so.

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Good choice.

You and I probably have that in common.

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My was a DeWayne Barker, Barker Auto Sales 33B shirt. Probably '84 or '85. He was local driver that ran Warsaw Speedway. It was him, Denny England, Bimbo Atkins, and Tony Elliott that always seem to battle for the championship. I can still remember what it looked like even though it is long gone.

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C'mon Scott. All your racing T-shirts are BIG.

Mine was a legend that recently left us too soon.

The one armed bandit Chuck Amati in the Daryl Tate 66 circa 1990.:thumb

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My first says tri-state speedway with sprint car on the front and has a late model on the back with all the top ten drivers names around it. Cool to look at to this day. I also have a Kendall Oil jacket from the early late 60's early 70's that my dad received for winning a feature. (probably Haubstadt also) The names are all there.

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Living in wing country, mine was probably a Bobby Allen shirt. But I know for sure, my first non-wing shirt was Tray House:respect:.

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I think mine was a hut 100 shirt from early 80's maybe.I know it was when the hut was at the fairgrounds and an all day show with quals and everything.It used to be a family trip every year to the infield for frisbee,burgers and racin.Ah the good ol days.

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Jayhawk Nationals, with Steve Kinser on it; late '70's/early 80's....

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Manzanita Speedway around 67-68 sure wish I still had it. I called a friend in phx. today ,and he said it was around 75 and nice boy sure do miss winters there.

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Mine was a Steve Kinser shirt. I didn't bother with the others because they were (are) still in school. :rolling

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Anyone remember the shirts from the late 70s/early 80s that had colored sleeves and "Sprint Car Drivers Slide It In Farther" on the front?

My mom had one. :doh:

How about the "***** Happens" shirts with the upside down sprint car/stock car and the duck on them?

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"It was Sprint Car drivers Drive it in Deeper"....LOL then you had the "If you can't race it or take it to bed it ain't worth having" lol. I just found my Ron Shuman ofixco Spl. shirt in a box. The first was a Manzy shirt or a Gary Stanton Shirt. I have that car as a tattoo on my upper right arm.

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Lynn Paxton / Boops Aluminum shirt from 1976 or 1977 had one that was blue with blue lettering and one that was white with blue lettering. Have them both in a box stored away along with my Smokey Snellbaker / Lloyds #56 shirts of which I have several.

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It would have to a Paragon shirt from the sixties or Danny Smith in the gambler car.

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Either a F.A.R.T. shirt, or a Crucean - Mahoney beer party shirt. Ithink it was the ,"Tell me if I was there" shirt. Boy werew those the good old days.

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Years ago I bought a shirt at an end of season sale in Indiana that has Joe ( not Joey ) Saldana dumping Boop's big block car at Eldora.

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my first t-shirt was a shirt my mom got me the first time that i went to the motor speedway. i was 3, 1983, and it was an indy 500 shirt. last i checked she still had it........along with a bronze casting of my first pair of shoes, and a lock of hair from my first hair cut.....

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Posted via Mobile Device My first racing-t was "Dirts for racing asphalts for getting there"

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The first one I'm sure was just a normal UMRA shirt, but the first ones I remember having were Rich Vogler's Wilke Pak Midget shirt, an Ascot Park shirt, and a Jack Hewitt winged shirt - with the slogan "Dew it, Hewitt" on it. I'm guessing the years were around 1988.

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1963 Atomic Speedway Chillicothe Ohio

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My wife made me get rid of my "I'd rather be blown than injected" drag racing shirt.
David.

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My first racing shirt had to be an old Riverside Park one.....I reminded of it every day I drive by the Six Flags Theme Park that has replaced it......

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World of Outlaws shirt 1978 at Lawrenceburg. Best part is that I still have it!

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My first one was from the two-day April 1987 All Star Circuit of Champions Late Model race at Tri City. Which is kind of ironic, since it was about the farthest thing from T-shirt weather you could possibly imagine. Even with Carharts on, that's the coldest I've ever been at the races.:eek: