Midgets are Midgets no matter what engine is in them. If you want to change the name to anything call them Speedcars like down under.

Ray

Somehow Speedcar just does not give me that warm and fuzzy feeling inside and up and down my leg so to speak. Litre is another thing altogether that word is cool.

I think what it is with the Mini Sprints is we have always been Midgets but the new guys racing midgets could not remember back to when midgets were crude and ran chain drive also and did not want to include us in their ranks.

Honest Dad himself

Call them "Regional Midgets"

"Most Discussed Midgets".........lol

Reminds me of a scene from an old play,hundreds of years old.

Midget:

O Mini Sprint, Mini Sprint! wherefore art thou Mini Sprint?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Midget.

Mini Sprint:

[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

Midget:

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Midget.
What's Midget? it is nor wheel, nor tire,
Nor hood, nor tailtank, nor any other part
Belonging to a Midget. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Mini Sprint would, were he not Mini Sprint call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Mini Sprint, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Mini Sprint:

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Mini Sprint

Times change but things always stay the same.>>> Thank You Mr. Shakespeare.

Honest Dad himself

Wow. The Bard of the Ohio doth speakest truth!
I may just print up a stack of these and the next time someone at a gas station asks "Is that a dune buggy?" I'll just hand them one and walk away.
Now if I can just get that image of Dad "Will" Jones in tights and a velvet hat out of my head...

Jim

The "Devil made me do it". Interesting though that history and events do reoccur. Nothing new under the sun.

Now about me in them tights, I got a picture of me in a purple wet suit somewhere years ago when Doug was little and he called me "Barney the Dinosaur". If I can find it I will try to post it, that should cause a bunch of thrills.

One of these days!!!!

By the way >>>>that Play did not end well. Hope we can change our ending.

Honest Dad himself

Wayne

Would those be your new spec tires on that car?. That sure would take the motor out of the equation. The engines we race with today make much more power than either the little 110 Offy or V8 60 Ford they raced with back then, and the Evenrude would not even be in the ballpark. If you were to walk up to them racers and ask one of them what stagger are you running and what is you shock valving, they would just give you one of them What the heck are you talking about looks.

New movie title "Back to the Future Midget Racer".

Honest Dad himself

Wayne

Maybe we are just learning that we can indeed call ourselves "Midget Race Car Racers" and not try to hide behind some contrived name designed to detract from what we really do race. We race Midgets with a defined type of Power Plant.

Have you seen any V8 Hemi Powered Midgets lately. I did see one race many many years ago it was powered by a little V8 Daimler (a Ford V8 60 with a set of Adurn heads sitting on top of the baby V8.)

We Use the same car but choose to vary the specs for our engines. The drive train should have never been an issue.

Honest Dad himself