it's tough to find AAA stuff but I'll keep digging. A great many of the AAA things I find tend to be about a select few drivers and/or cars. For today I'm going to post based entirely on one certain car. This car won more AAA races than any other including Indy. I'm not sure if it won as many races as the dean van Lines dirt car but the Dean car was both AAA and USAC and for this we'll go by AAA. The car I am talking about is the Bellanger 99.
Following from a newspaper article wrote back then that appeared in Murrell Belanger's hometown newspaper.
The famous No. 99, owned by Murrell Belanger, is the only world champion racer in the first 100 years of Lowell's history. Built and prepared for all its races in the second floor machine shop of the Belanger Farm Equipment Co. on Mill Street, the $45,000 racer took first money and trophy in 9 out of 14 races over the country in 1951 to pile up a huge total of points and win the coveted championship.
Belanger, a Lowell and Crown Point business man, was given a huge reception both here and in the county seat where he was presented trophies by racing notables.
Lee Wallard of Alton, New York, drove the car to victory in the 500 on Memorial Day but suffered severe burns in a race in Pennsylvania a week later while driving another car, and Tony Bettenhausen of Tinley Park, Ill., finished the season in 99.
1951 Record of No. 99
Indianapolis, 500 mile --- First
Milwaukee, 100 mile --- First
Langhorn, Pa., 100 mile --- First
Darlington, S.C., 100 mi. --- Second
Milwaukee, 200 mile --- Tenth
Springfield, Ill., 100 mile --- First
DuQuoin, Ill., 100 mile --- First
DuQuoin, Ill., 200 mile --- First
Syracuse, N.Y., 100 mile --- First
Detroit, Mich., 100 mile --- Fourth
Denver, Colo., 100 mile --- First
San Josea, Calif., 100 mile --- First
Phoenix, Ariz., 100 mile --- Thirteenth
Bay Meadows, Calif., 150 mile --- Second
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