Driver- Larry Rice
Year- 1978
Car- Lightning Mk1/77 - Offy
Track- Indianapolis
In 1977 was the #11 Linsey Hopkins car driven by Roger McCluskey. Also driven by Vern Schuppan at Texas in 1978 and by Larry Rice and Tim Richmond in 1979
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Driver- Larry Rice
Year- 1978
Car- Lightning Mk1/77 - Offy
Track- Indianapolis
In 1977 was the #11 Linsey Hopkins car driven by Roger McCluskey. Also driven by Vern Schuppan at Texas in 1978 and by Larry Rice and Tim Richmond in 1979
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Originally Posted by Phoenixent
Very good, your up thank god.
Drivers, Cars, Year, & Track
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my opening stab in the dark:
1916
both cars are Peugeot
sheepshead Bay
#9 Ralph Mulford
#19 Dario Resta
You are correct Chris. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
Did you notice that Mulford is looking toward the inside of the turn. Must of been so felling looking down like that.
Your Turn.
I was actually wondering if that was a posed picture - given the era and the lack of the forward lean I was thinking they might just be parked - both Mulford and his mechanic look pretty casual to be flying along the boards...
anyway- cool picture...
here is an easy one - I am not even going to hide the name - just thought it was a cool pic with the moon wheels and what not....
Parnelli JonesQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
1964 OFFICIAL QUALIFYING PHOTO--IMS
1960 Watson-Offy.
Raced in 1960 by Lloyd Ruby and 1961-1964 by Parnelli Jones. Caught fire on lap 55 and was never raced again.
Johnny Poulson severed as crew chief on this car from 1961-1964.
Car won the 1963 500, the only race it ever won and was in model form from 1963-1970.
The car was built by Watson not a from plans car.
Waldo has it - and then some ;) Its Ol' Calhoun - anybody know where the name came from??
So there were "factory" and "home built" Watsons?? I did not know that ...
Also, about one of the previous cars - the Lightning of the mid-70's - I know it was Hopkins car and it was designed by Roman Slobynsky (sp?) but who actually did the build etc.?? I did not really think that Hopkins was in the business of building cars in-house.....
Your turn Waldo!!!
A.J. Watson built cars but worked for Bob Wilkie and Leader Card. Bob paid the bills. In 1960 he built 2 for themselves, and one that became the Ken-Paul Spl and one for Agajanian plus a few updates on 1959 cars. He was so busy he also sold plans to the car. Wayne Ewing bought one for Al Dean and that car got the Pole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
After getting beat at Indy by the Ken-Paul car, Wilkie requested that no more building of customer cars and only sell the plans only. Floyd Trevis bought 2 sets of plans, Denny Moore bought one and I believe there was one more. One of the Trevis cars was Foyt's and Ruby won the Milwaukee 200 in the Moore for John Zink. (Gurney passed his rookies test in it in 1962)
Wilkie then changed his mind as money was not as good for plans as it was for finished product. In 1962 Watson built 3 cars, two for the house and one for Bill Forbes. That car became the famous "money car" and finish 500 in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 with 4 different drivers. The other 2 cars finished 1-2 at the Speedway in 1962. Three sound cars.
He did the same basically in 1963 but built three house cars and one for the Ansted-Thompson team. It was for sale during most of the month of May but when Foyt's buddy Ebb Rose got bumped they qualified the car. It went the 500 miles.
In 1964 Watson switched to RE cars and the Foyt 1963 Watson, won PIR, won Trenton, won Indianapolis, won the Mays in Milwaukee and won the Trenton 150. It was raced one more time at the Trenton 200 and burned its clutch on the 77th lap. This was the first race it did not complete the scheduled distance and was put into the museum in May of 1965 as is.
Other 1963 Watsons survived and raced until 1966, one with a Ford qualified and got bumped in 1965 with Bob Grim at the wheel.
Three of the 1960 cars competed into 1965 with the Ewing being driven to a second at Atlanta by Mario and the Chapman car that was the second place finisher in 1960 racing in the 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965 500 and scoring top 10s each year. The 1960 winner was in the 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964 500s with it finishing one spot behind the Chapman car in 1964.
Lindsey Hopkins paid Roman's bills. (I believe Roman is FABCAR now?) Kind of like Gene White paying the bills for the ATLANTA effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
Two great drivers: