Thanks Chris.
Here is the new photo. :cool:
Name Driver, Car, Track and Year.
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/o...Car/568945.jpg
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Thanks Chris.
Here is the new photo. :cool:
Name Driver, Car, Track and Year.
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/o...Car/568945.jpg
Let me take a shot...Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenixent
Mickey Thompson’s 8-cylinder rear-engine car #34 Indy 500 1962 (RIP MT)
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...r-blogSpan.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by SoCalPVguy
This DOES look slightly different...
Nice photo of the car restored. I wonder when it had the sheet metal changed on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SoCalPVguy
Right Car SoCal... :up:
Just need the rest of the info.
Looks like it was modified at some point to be offset to the left too... great pictures from both of you guys.... SoCal - where is the car now??
Dan Gurney drove the Mickey Thompson #34 stock-block Buick rear engine car in the 1962 Indy 500. That picture is clearly not Dan, so I’ll guess that’s Mickey himself shaking it down. It is a Buick V8 215 engine.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Article: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010...-to-400-m-p-h/
FYI: The Mickey Thompson team raced a Buick 215 powered car in the 1962 Indianapolis 500. The Australian firm Repco converted this engine for Formula One by reducing it to 3.0 L (183 cu in) (using con-rods from the 2.5 L/153 cu in Daimler V8) and fitting a single overhead camshaft per bank rather than the shared pushrod arrangement. Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 championship twice, in 1966 and 1967.
Where is that car, you asked ??? Now, nearly 50 years after that feat, the N.H.R.A. museum has opened “Mickey Thompson: First American to 400 M.P.H.,” an exhibition honoring the milestone and Thompson’s career and life, which were cut short by his murder in 1988. Luckily for museum visitors, Thompson had a hard time parting with old iron. At the entrance, the restored Challenger I is set against a white backdrop accompanied by old grainy Bonneville movies. Farther inside, there are seven significant Thompson racecars…
“Mickey Thompson: First American to 400 M.P.H.” runs through October 2010 at the Wally Parks N.H.R.A. Motorsports Museum at the Los Angeles County Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Avenue., Pomona, Calif.; (909) 622-2133; www.museum.nhra.com
Still looking for the Driver, Year and Track.
Anybody have a guess?
Tough one, it seems it has to be a Buick engined car in 1962 at Indy - can't see that the #34 ran anywhere else...
Obviously not Gurney - so perhaps Bill Cheesbough or Chuck Daigh....??
Chris you are correct on the driver it is Bill Cheesbough 1962 IMS. It would have been cool if it was Gurney in the picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
Your Turn
Guys, don't mean to barge in but I thought this one might be a blast from the not so recent past.
Year
Driver
Car
Track