Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

Veteran open wheeler Eddie Johnson from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio won the 1963 USAC midget race on the Watkins Glen road course. :Steer

Photo from the 1963 -1964 Edition of the Motorsport Annual Pictorial.
Photographer - ?

Have a good day...see you at the races :thumb

Midwest Connection
Rich Edwards - Arnold, Missouri
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Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

That's a name out of my past! Eddie Johnson was the team mate to Dave McDonald who perished in the 1964 2nd lap fire with Eddie Sachs in the 500. They were both (Eddie J and Dave) driving the Mickey Thompson built and owned All-State Specials.

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PS....I wonder how they geared the midgets for the road course with a long straightaway and some tight turns?

Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

I would guess to right at the redline on the longest straight, and hope the little motor had the guts to get off the corner? I'd love to find out in a modern midget!

Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

Eddie is part of an answer to a trivia question - and a man most forget on this part - who has driven a upright dirt chassis car, a roadster, and rear engine car at Indianapolis

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Sometimes I swear that Pat has two brains, because one brain can NOT be big enough to store almost 70 years of facts and information.

I want to find a sponsor for an event

Pat Sullivan vs. Donald Davidson

Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

Trust me - Donald wins

Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

It would be entertaining to watch though

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Perhaps....if questions are limited to Indy 500 material. Otherwise, my money is on you.

Re: Midwest Connection - USAC midget winner at Watkins Glen road course - 1963
 

Eddie most have been a very small man because that midget cockpit looks like a champcar cockpit with him in it. Anyone else notice that?