Was going through some boxes of parts tonight and found a decal for them. What is / was the series? I have one of the cars from the series but don't have much info on it. I'm just trying to get an idea what drivetrain was in the car before it was taken apart and sold. Thanks

They have a web site, www.ozarkmountainmidgets.com. Bob

Darnell that frequents this sight was the braintrust behind OMMS
He tried using the sportsman concept that the Illini group is using, just couldn't make the spec tire deal work
He then opened it up to any midget type car with a rr Hard compound rule, you had to run the same tire you started with on the right rear ( officials marked it before the heat race)
There was a mixture of midgets and mini sprints that were very competitive, they didn't pay a lot of money which kept most of the mega teams away, however they would still drop in to try and cherry pick
They would not always be successful
It was a great series for the little guy, Darnell did a great job of running it, but like everything I think he got burned out

Jeff Palazzolo

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Some of the drivers form the Ozark group are now running with a group called the AMS. American Midget Series. http://www.americanmidgetseries.com/

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 can honestly say that racing with the OMMS was the absolute funniest time I had racing...period. It was such a good time running with the midget guys in my little under powered car. A great group of guys to race with. It was a shame when the tents got folded up on that deal.

Im curious whos car he has

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The chassis was blue (now sandblasted) and the body is yellow with a blue "56". The chassis kinda looks like a non downtube that has been updated to a downtube at some point.

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Didnt they have a couple hits in the 70s???

Oooops That was the band........

Pretty sure me and Zeromotorsports already knew which car you had...that thing has been the midget racecar version of a gypsy the last 7 years...that is an ERC or EMC minisprint chassis that was converted to a midget when the texas 1200cc mini group went to drivelines and steel block pontiac motors....my uncle in Springfield, MO bought it turnkey with a steel block pontiac engine from zeromtrspts back in 2007 when he was still in Texas...my uncle raced one season with OMMS then sold the car to a guy from Branson, MO...that family had it for a year or two then sold it back to Zero..Zero rented the car out for a couple of our races in 2009 to drivers who wanted to try out a midget..I think he then did some parting out on it and sold what was left to another party and it looks like you got it from them.

I had to smile when I saw the ad for it here in the IOW classifieds a few months ago...before I even opened the ad I knew which car it was going to be, then I saw the pics and got a blast from the past....

When we ran our series on the Mickey Thompson sportsman tires that first year that car was as fast as anything that raced with us. Those tires were an amazing equalizer and to this day I regret that we couldn't find a way to keep our series alive using them. My uncle ran one race in the car on race tires, and by the end of the night he had gone from a wicked push to a decent handling car...

When my uncle bought it I don't remember what number it had on it, and it was set up as a 4 bar car. My uncle converted the front end to coil overs, added the RF shock tower, and put a number 22 on it. The people he sold it to put a number 56 on it. They already owned an old Vogler White Volkswagen car and a Buzzard/Gearte car...he told me the main reason he bought the car from my uncle was to get the really neat little open trailer that had stayed with the car through 3 or 4 owners...

That's about all I can tell you about its history, but I'm quite sure zeromtrsrts can tell you more.