[kart31rac]

Dirtnonwingfan, that brings back some good memories, most weekends for us when I was a kid was pittsfield, jacksonville, and to joes on sunday night. I had lunch with a few of the guys that raced there Francis Wildman Kelly and Ronnie Milton. Those two guys could wheel a race car. Francis is 85 and would still jump in a car and race. Those were some good times.

[dirtnonwingfan]

"Wildman" Kelly certainly got his nickname honestly. Do you remember the time he trashed three different sprint cars/supermodifieds in three weekends and showed up on the fourth Saturday with a fuel injected flathead in a beautiful grey #77 '32 Ford (I think) and ran with the sprints? Ran well too. Glad to hear he is still around.

You are right, those were good times. I miss the greased pig races, corset races, 500 lap partnership races and all the other crazy stuff they did at Pittsfield. They knew how to promote. Do you know if anyone has ever done any sort of history of Pittsfield? All the best raced there. I remember the week before the first Knoxville Supermodified Nationals when a guy with a strange looking winged car came up from Kentucky on his way to Knoxville and blew everyone away. None of us had ever heard of Roy Robbins, but he did OK the next week at Knoxville too.

[kart31rac]

Ya someone did some reasearch on Pittsfield I will call a friend of mine, he knows who did it. I started going to pittsfield in 65 or 66 I was 5 or 6. Being from Bluffs that was a big deal. Do you remember Hank Lawshe, he and my dad were good friends. got a video of hank and his cars. Running the IMCA circuit in the 50's and early 60's. Well it is is still in my blood just boutght a car to run at 34 and knoxville in the 305 class, just want to have fun. I will find aout about that research.

Kelly Sears

[racerjim2]

I can't find that other post but here's the Ember Link car someone mentioned.

[TQ29m]

Originally Posted by racerjim2 I can't find that other post but here's the Ember Link car someone mentioned.

Jimmie, looks like another Indy car to me, boy, a lot of them had a lot of years left on em. In probably, 1958, in Columbus, where the Jail is now, was a little used car lot, I looked at one there once, it had a Chevy in it, lights and road ready. Bob

[HurstBros0]

That was a Carl Kinser take on a Greg Weld mechanical rabbit... I think there was a picture of Larry Miller driving it with a big block chevy in it...

[racerjim2]

Originally Posted by HurstBros0 That was a Carl Kinser take on a Greg Weld mechanical rabbit... I think there was a picture of Larry Miller driving it with a big block chevy in it...

Was that the same car Karl took to Atlanta?

And Bob, I'd like to have one of those now.

[Speedwrench]

Originally Posted by racerjim2 Was that the same car Karl took to Atlanta? And Bob, I'd like to have one of those now.

Not sure about Atlanta, but the roadster I remember Karl having was the old Kinder-Roberts Kurtis that he found parked in the living room of an abandoned house somewhere around Bedford, In. I think it was pretty much a standard Indy car with a Chevy stuffed in it and not much else in the way of modifications.

I think you may be thinking of an IMCA race at Macon, Ga that was someting of a warm up race for Tampa around 69 or 70. I think Bob Kinser drove the car for that show.

[TQ29m]

Originally Posted by racerjim2 Was that the same car Karl took to Atlanta? And Bob, I'd like to have one of those now.

Me too, Jimmie, but they wanted to keep it, more than I wanted to buy it, and as I remember, they were wanting around $500.00 for it, but I was probably building something else, that was taking all my spare cash, that musta been around 1959, cause that year I bought a driver, 1931 Ford A coupe, off a lot on Central Ave, for $75.00. Wish I had that one too! Bob

[racerjim2]

Originally Posted by Speedwrench Not sure about Atlanta, but the roadster I remember Karl having was the old Kinder-Roberts Kurtis that he found parked in the living room of an abandoned house somewhere around Bedford, In. I think it was pretty much a standard Indy car with a Chevy stuffed in it and not much else in the way of modifications. I think you may be thinking of an IMCA race at Macon, Ga that was someting of a warm up race for Tampa around 69 or 70. I think Bob Kinser drove the car for that show.

Your absolutely right. I wasn't thinking! It was Macon, Ga. where Bobby ran the roadster. But I don't think it and the Link roadster are the same car at all.