What is a "Lightning"?******* "Back it in" 95% of*** our*** racing is done with wings.

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I went on-line to try to find the origin of "lightning sprint" couldn't do it, but I did find that those crazy people Down under are taking v/6 motors and putting them in midget chassis and calling them "lightning sprints". That would be a real racey car. Since USAC did away with the v/6 motor. We could probably make a class that was faster than both the sprints and midgets of today, Remember Glen Niebel and Ralph Potter They ran away with both USAC sprint car and midget title's with little v/6 motors. We should probably call this class "V/6 midgets" or maybe "V/6 Spridget".

Could you guys maybe have picked up the term "Lightning" from the popular cartoon show "Johny Lightning"?