Originally Posted by coxie bowman:
Yeh, he ran for Dallas Varney from Muskegon several times, plus others I fail to remember. He was pretty good but had a few problems making the USAC shows back then. It was different times as you well know. I think he was killed at Sandusky in a Dowker car.
From:
http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/
Nolan Johncock was one of the competitors in the Sandusky International Cavalcade, a supermodified race held on 03 October 1971 at the Sandusky Speedway, a 1/2-mile paved oval. Johncock's car in that event was the ex-Ken Paul Special roadster - in which Jim Rathmann won the 1960 Indy 500 race - and later converted into a supermodified.
On the ninety-fifth lap of the 100 laps of that race Johncock, then running in second place, ran into another car whose engine had just blown up. Johncock's machine crashed through a retaining wall and hit a pole. It is believed that he died at the spot.
Nolan Johncock, a resident of Hastings, Michigan, was a cousin of Gordon Johncock, who won the Indy 500 in 1973 and 1982.
The car in which Nolan Johncock lost his life was later restored to the same configuration in which Bob Harkey finished the 1964 Indy 500 in eighth place. As of 2009 the machine resides in a private collection in Ohio