Originally Posted by apexonephoto:
When crossing the border I've had a few looks when I tell them I am going to see Midgets race. Whatever term someones comes up with many people will still call them midgets. A perfect example is the people who can't let go of "champ cars" when describing what I have only known as Silver Crown cars.
They are still dirt champ cars to me and always will be :2:
Originally Posted by apexonephoto:
When crossing the border I've had a few looks when I tell them I am going to see Midgets race. Whatever term someones comes up with many people will still call them midgets. A perfect example is the people who can't let go of "champ cars" when describing what I have only known as Silver Crown cars.
Well the Champ Cars used to be called Big cars or Dirt cars, didn't they? So you could call the midgets, small dirt car.
I always liked the Mike Fedorcak story about racing down south, they stopped to eat and the waitress asked "are ya' all racin' those Munchkin cars tonite?"
For a short while in the mid-1960 they tried to call them compact sprints.
I don't mind calling them midgets myself with the exception of the time I Google midget with the wrong word and got a website with a gazillion pop ups and pictures unclad women. From then on I Googled USAC midgets.
Originally Posted by jim goerge:
They are still dirt champ cars to me and always will be :2:
Glad to see I got the diehards excited! Just so you guys know I'd still call midgets, midgets. Just like IRP being called ORP and LORI.
I'd agree Speedcar and small car sound good.
I grew up (and still live) around the great lakes with pavement outlaw super late models (Junior Hanley, Joy Fair) kind of cars. A few years back Michael Simko tried to drop kick Don St.Denis' car under caution during the Glass City 200 at Toledo. A video of it made the sports highlights on many news channels. Anyhow a few weeks later I was somewhere in the south talking to some random race fan at a racetrack about where I was from and he asks me if I like them "rasslin cars"...
From then on I Googled USAC midgets.
