Ozark Mountain Midget Series?

zeromotorsports · 8/31/12, 10:15 AM

Lol, that sums it up. I have owned that car like 4 or 5 times

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PatrickMead#13 · 8/31/12, 12:14 PM

I kinda fell into it as I was buying spares for my current car and thought this would a handy backup chassis for my current car. I saw those ads too and thought it had a engine plate for something other than a bike motor. The rf shock tower is gone and someone started putting a shifter, wing mount spuds, and other stuff in it. I just thought about throwing a junkyard focus motor or something in it so my dad could try his hand at driving a car now that he's retired and talking smack to me for fun..... Lol

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PatrickMead#13 · 8/31/12, 5:21 PM

Or build a monster and sneak it under the hood..... Lol

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Aces&Eights · 10/22/17, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by darnall

It got totally impossible to book races that paid anything at all without bringing money to cover our purse. Then when we would get dates with good payouts we had a difficult time getting guys to actually come and race. In the winter of 2010-2011 we hired somebody who had been the money finder for a regional late model series for years....that resulted in absolutely zero added sponsor dollars. A couple other guys thought they could get the job done so I let them have it. One of those guys works his butt off to do a memorial race every year with a great purse but other than that one race he isn't able to find enough funding to keep it going. The other guy booked monthly shows at a track we scheduled twice a year, planned on bringing enough sponsor money to pay well, lost the sponsorship and now has monthly midget races that pay about 50 bucks per car. A third guy worked really hard to get an ecotec/focus series running just across the MO/OK state line but he has run into basically the same brick walls that we all did. Too many back gate tracks with 6-8 fendered classes weekly in this part of the country that don't see any value in having a midget show no matter how many times we packed grandstands for them. Too many options for the hobby racers to be able to consistently get decent car counts to our shows. We had 3 really good years and a couple of decent years but the stars aligned against us so I cut bait before it gave me a heart attack.

As far as figuring out the lineage of the car you bought, give me some info about it and I can more than likely tell you some history on it.

I found this after I pm’d about it earlier.

copper14 · 10/23/17, 6:45 PM

tell me about the jimmy white vw car.we ran one with illini and did well.eleanor vogler was in the pits one night and recognized the car.rich vogler was my sons hero.unfortunately we were watching the salem race where rich met his fate.we sold the jimmy white in 2005 to go 410 racing.we lost track of the car and always wanted to get it back.

8/31/12, 10:15 AM	#11
zeromotorsports Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 634	Lol, that sums it up. I have owned that car like 4 or 5 times Posted via Mobile Device

8/31/12, 12:14 PM	#12
PatrickMead#13 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 954	I kinda fell into it as I was buying spares for my current car and thought this would a handy backup chassis for my current car. I saw those ads too and thought it had a engine plate for something other than a bike motor. The rf shock tower is gone and someone started putting a shifter, wing mount spuds, and other stuff in it. I just thought about throwing a junkyard focus motor or something in it so my dad could try his hand at driving a car now that he's retired and talking smack to me for fun..... Lol Posted via Mobile Device

8/31/12, 5:21 PM	#13
PatrickMead#13 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 954	Or build a monster and sneak it under the hood..... Lol Posted via Mobile Device

10/23/17, 6:45 PM	#15 Re: Ozark Mountain Midget Series?
copper14 Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 124	tell me about the jimmy white vw car.we ran one with illini and did well.eleanor vogler was in the pits one night and recognized the car.rich vogler was my sons hero.unfortunately we were watching the salem race where rich met his fate.we sold the jimmy white in 2005 to go 410 racing.we lost track of the car and always wanted to get it back.