Name that Car 2

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Originally Posted by !!WALDO!!

The Picture is from 1973 due to the WING size. It was taken at PIR and in 1973 the Spring race was flooded out. Before the flood a test took place with the Page Racing 1970 Eagle that Mike Hiss drove in 1972 to RoY and got STP Sponsorship after qualifying for the 500.
Hiss was now the Thermo-King Driver.

This driver was Sports Car and Midget driver Bob Criss. (Saw him flip 15 feet away from me at Shaheen's Little Springfield in 1967)

This was Bob's last ride as he was killed in that car.

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Correct year and track, incorrect car and driver.

Addendum: (I always liked that word)

The engine in Krisiloff's was the Drake V-8, and it got it best finish ever at that race.

My second photo, IF anyone gets that, I AM IMPRESSED, but I will not drag it out and play teaser.
The driver only attempted two CART races and never got a start.

First photo, he got at least one oval and road race win.

Bob

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Give this one a shot.

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The number screws me up as #41 was assigned as a backup for the Vel's Parnelli Jones team. #4 for Al Unser and #1 for Joe Leonard.

Looking carefully the Engine is a Foyt and the chassis looks like a cross between an Eagle and Foyt's 1972 Coyote.

Eisenhour-Brayton Entry with Lee Brayton, father of the Buick Turbo and the builder of Midget engines and father of Scott.

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Originally Posted by !!WALDO!!

The number screws me up as #41 was assigned as a backup for the Vel's Parnelli Jones team. #4 for Al Unser and #1 for Joe Leonard.

Looking carefully the Engine is a Foyt and the chassis looks like a cross between an Eagle and Foyt's 1972 Coyote.

Eisenhour-Brayton Entry with Lee Brayton, father of the Buick Turbo and the builder of Midget engines and father of Scott.

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Nope
Remember, the driver won at least two races.
The driver of photo one ran some of the same tracks as driver of photo two.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Nope
Remember, the driver won at least two races.
The driver of photo one ran some of the same tracks as driver of photo two.

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In 1973 there were 19 former winners and 8 won Roadcourse races. Al, Bobby, Mario, A.J., Gordy, Revson, JR and a rookie Tom Sneva.

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Originally Posted by !!WALDO!!

In 1973 there were 19 former winners and 8 won Roadcourse races. Al, Bobby, Mario, A.J., Gordy, Revson, JR and a rookie Tom Sneva.

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Bingo, now what chassis!

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Bingo, now what chassis!

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It looks like a 1972 Atlanta-Foyt. Not AJ's modified one.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Bingo, now what chassis!

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Tipke - Offy

Photo #2
Driver- Wally Pankratz

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Originally Posted by Phoenixent

Tipke - Offy

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Look at it is a Foyt. The Tipke car was a 71 Eagle. I caught something with the design that was the 71 McLaren designers hired by Firestone and Gene White to build a Foyt power McLaren.
Three were built and White got two and Foyt, a Goodyear Tire user for supplying the engines.
This car was Lloyd Ruby's 6th place 1972 car. Another one Cale Yarborough drove to 10th became the car Larry McCoy drove in 1975 as a RASCAR/Offy.
Foyt's car made a start at PIR in the Spring of 1972 and scored an 8th, the only points Foyt would get in 1972. (Won the Daytona 500, Ontario 500 in NASCAR and the USAC Dirt Title and finished 37th in the National Championship)
The car in 1974 got a "Coyote" nose and Snider made the race with it. It continued to be entered in the 500 until 1978 but by a different set of owners.
I did a history on those cars 30 years ago but did not have Tom Sneva in the car. It never raced that year.

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Originally Posted by !!WALDO!!

Look at it is a Foyt. The Tipke car was a 71 Eagle. I caught something with the design that was the 71 McLaren designers hired by Firestone and Gene White to build a Foyt power McLaren.
Three were built and White got two and Foyt, a Goodyear Tire user for supplying the engines.
This car was Lloyd Ruby's 6th place 1972 car. Another one Cale Yarborough drove to 10th became the car Larry McCoy drove in 1975 as a RASCAR/Offy.
Foyt's car made a start at PIR in the Spring of 1972 and scored an 8th, the only points Foyt would get in 1972. (Won the Daytona 500, Ontario 500 in NASCAR and the USAC Dirt Title and finished 37th in the National Championship)
The car in 1974 got a "Coyote" nose and Snider made the race with it. It continued to be entered in the 500 until 1978 but by a different set of owners.
I did a history on those cars 30 years ago but did not have Tom Sneva in the car. It never raced that year.

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The car is a Tipke.
He did not drive it at Phoenix but did at two other tracks.