Lawrenceburg Speedway - 5/4/68

awnunn (Offline)
#41 11/7/08 7:13 AM

Ira turned 68 in July

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smith19 (Offline)
#42 11/7/08 1:07 PM

Marv, give me a break. I was just a little fella back then.:d

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Butch47265 (Offline)
#43 11/8/08 6:54 AM

Originally Posted by HurstBros0:
The 6 was Norman ( Turtle ) Miller and Nick Naber .... The 52 and 53 were Lawrence Foxes cars... 71 and 72 Dizz Wilson .... 83 Rufus Gray .... 3 Ralph Isom ...

Dan Hurst

I know that 83 car was Jim Waltz car that Aldo Andretta Dick gaines and Butch Wilkerson drove with alot of SUCCESS

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Butch47265 (Offline)
#44 11/8/08 6:59 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Whisler:
I'm not sure if this is the answer to your question... My computer's wallpaper is a photo of Bob Kinser qualifying at the 1968 Knoxville Nationals. It's the 53 car that looks to be sponsored by Dave McIntire. As far as I remember, that was a Chevy dealership on 38th St. in Indy.

Here's a link to where you can find that photo:

http://www.usadirtracing.addr.com/Co...k_Thunder.html

the 53 car also Dave Mcintire had dealership in Bloomington

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Butch47265 (Offline)
#45 11/8/08 7:09 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Whisler:
I'm not sure if this is the answer to your question... My computer's wallpaper is a photo of Bob Kinser qualifying at the 1968 Knoxville Nationals. It's the 53 car that looks to be sponsored by Dave McIntire. As far as I remember, that was a Chevy dealership on 38th St. in Indy.

Here's a link to where you can find that photo:

http://www.usadirtracing.addr.com/Co...k_Thunder.html

the 53 car also Dave Mcintire had dealership in Bloomington

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cecil98 (Offline)
#46 11/8/08 8:47 AM

Originally Posted by FishBurger:
It was, as I recall, a pinkish "Brewer's Garage" sponsored car #14. I don't know who the owner was but seems reasonable that it could have been Pete Brewer. Vallonia, IN rings a bell for me concerning this car and driver. "Pink" may not exactly describe the paint job, but I don't think anyone was gonna give Sheldon any crap about it whatever the hue. :wink

I believe one of the Brewer's #14 cars, that Sheldon drove, had a Cadillac engine in it. I remember one of the 100 lappers at Lawrenceburg where Sheldon led most of the race in that car but, the driveline eventually failed and Ross Smith wound up winning in Oakie Drout's black #5 sprint car. The Drout sprinter was built by Herb Porter and Don Brown, and driven by Bobby Marshman in USAC before Oakie bought it for Ross. Ross won the sprint championship in that car in either 66' or
67'. can't remember which year it was.

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TQ29m (Offline)
#47 11/8/08 10:00 AM

You're right on the Cadillac, Pete and Jerry liked them big motors! I was going to ask, did Yeadon happen to have his famous? dual RR wheel on? He ran it quite a bit at Paragon, don't know if it really worked that well, but it sure made him think it did. Bob

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Mr. Happy
#48 11/8/08 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Whisler:
I'm not sure if this is the answer to your question... My computer's wallpaper is a photo of Bob Kinser qualifying at the 1968 Knoxville Nationals. It's the 53 car that looks to be sponsored by Dave McIntire. As far as I remember, that was a Chevy dealership on 38th St. in Indy.

Here's a link to where you can find that photo:

http://www.usadirtracing.addr.com/Co...k_Thunder.html

:thumb

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HurstBros0 (Offline)
#49 11/8/08 2:49 PM

I know that 83 car was Jim Waltz car that Aldo Andretta Dick gaines and Butch Wilkerson drove with alot of SUCCESS

Sorry if I got the facts wrong :doh:.... Dad thought when Aldo drove it that Rufus owned it . Aldo ran over their hood during a melee and knocked the ram tubes off the injectors at Lawrenceburg . He did remember Butch telling him about a pretty quiet ride back from Florida with Jim Walsh.

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Hubie (Offline)
#50 11/8/08 3:33 PM

That old photograph is beyond cool :thumb

Got any more? :respect:

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